Police aren't the best option for handling mental health crises. Here's what we can try instead

Though the phrasing of “defund the police” has proven to be more than a little divisive among Democrats and progressives, many of us do agree with core sentiments in the movement. Even simply …

Inglewood Police Department stopped in its tracks as it attempted to destroy years of records

Just as we’ve bid goodbye to the trash fire that was 2021, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge did the right thing and issued a temporary order barring the Inglewood Police Department from destroying …

Atlanta approves $90 million for ‘Cop City’ sitting on over 300 acres of forested land

Imagine your local city council overwhelmingly approving a proposal that about 98% of residents local to the area oppose. That’s exactly what happened on Sept. 8 when the Atlanta City Council signed …

The anatomy of a fake conservative news story about vaccine mandates killing a child's dad

On occasion, for professional reasons, I must wade into the right wing-o-sphere. It is filled with the kind of rabid misinformation and fearmongering you might expect. The part that is most …

James Carville's rebuke of 'wokeness' is nothing more than a rebuke of Blackness

A conversation has unfolded on social media—and God help us all—it has the audacity to be about the concept of being “woke,” “staying woke,” and all matters “wokeness”-related. This idea of staying …

Qualified immunity remains intact, but legal activists keep trying to chip away at it

by Aria Velasquez

This story was originally published at Prism.

Last week, the Supreme Court ruled again in favor of law enforcement officers invoking qualified immunity in cases of excessive use of …

Introducing Pathways to Liberation: An abolition-ish podcast

Welcome to Pathways to Liberation. Pathways to Liberation is an abolition-ish podcast where we explore police accountability activism and wrestle with the question: Could we possibly be safe in a …

Police budgets are increasing, but that doesn’t mean the ‘defund the police’ movement isn’t working

by Ray Levy Uyeda

This story was originally published at Prism.

One year after the George Floyd uprisings that prompted a nationwide reevaluation of what role police actually play in upholding public …

LAPD officers are tracking civilians and their connections online, according to internal records

When it comes to police and law enforcement in the United States, we tend to cover a lot of brutality and violence, especially against people of color, sex workers, and incarcerated folks. It’s …

Who's really trying to defund police? Chris Wallace takes to task Republican Rep. Jim Banks

It seldom takes much to put a Republican in his or her place. Simple facts do it on most occasions, and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace had plenty of them for GOP Rep. Jim Banks on “Fox News Sunday.” …

This week on The Brief: George Floyd, Black rebellion, and ending the police and carceral states

On this week’s episode of The Brief, hosts Markos Moulitsas and Kerry Eleveld discussed the changing tides of public opinion on income taxes, Black Lives Matter, and more. They welcomed as their guest …