Police training is a wasteland of unregulated 'courses' taught by for-profit extremists

A new Washington Post investigation dives back into the world of for-profit “police training,” and yeesh, it’s not exactly hard to see why some of our nation’s police forces …

'Poster child for policing for profit': Alabama town saw 640% spike in fines and forfeitures

An Alabama town of just over 1,250 people saw more people arrested and accused of misdemeanors than it had residents in 2020, according to an investigation by The Birmingham News. Brookside, which is …

George Floyd's 4-year-old niece is shot and it took police more than four hours to come

Arianna Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, is suffering three broken ribs and a punctured lung and liver after she was shot on New Year’s Day sleeping in her bed in Texas. It took …

Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT teams and it's making them very upset

It turns out that when arresting some of the participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, police departments have been using SWAT teams and similarly heavily armed teams to do the actual arresting part. …

NYC’s mental health call response pilot shows promise but is still hampered by police involvement

This story was originally published at Prism. 

Earlier this spring, New York City launched B-HEARD (Behavioral Health Emergency Assistant Response Division), a program where licensed physical and …

Analysis of police bodycams confirms what Black people know: Cops treat white people better

“This is a nice car you’re driving. You sure it’s yours?” he said, the implication of grand theft auto barely going unsaid. “I pulled you over because I thought you might be lost,” she said, in a tone …