By Brian Dolinar This article was originally published by Truthout An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers. A growing movement has been campaigning…
By Mike Ludwig This article was originally published by Truthout Hundreds of local police departments have received waivers to fly surveillance drones that navigate with AI. Police in cities across…
Is copwatching a form of citizen journalism, or is it just provocation masquerading as accountability? We debate and discuss your questions with (in)famous copwatcher Long Island Audit. Taya Graham and…
By Flint Taylor This article was originally published by Truthout Prosecutions of anti-ICE and pro-Palestine protesters are part of a broad effort to crack down on dissent. In March of…
Rafael Carranza, Arizona Luminaria, and Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, illustrations by Shoshana Gordon, ProPublica Co-published with Arizona Luminaria More than $7,000 in cable TV subscriptions. An $11,000 golf cart. $1.5 million…
By Ella Fassler for Truthout/TheAppeal In late September, Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) stopped Jose Bonilla Lopez, a gardener who lived in the city’s northwest. According to a police…
Elizabeth Vos reports on a vast law enforcement training facility in Atlanta that defies the defund-police movement and sets the stage for Israel-linked militarized policing across the U.S.
In back-to-back rulings on when cops should be afforded qualified immunity, an appeals court came to radically different conclusions.
The remedy for the problems the law supposedly addresses comes from creating better conditions for people to flourish and be free from the ills oppression facilitates.
