Police

By Ben Rosenfeld / CounterPunch Some reps in Congress assert that dismantling qualified immunity (“QI”)—a police officer’s so-called good faith defense to a civil rights lawsuit—is a “non-starter” in negotiations to pass the George Floyd Civil Rights Act. In reality, meaningful police accountability is a non-starter without discarding QI. QI is a regressive framework which […]

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Cop City Atlanta is a privately funded, local community surveillance campus that has already taken the life of one protestor as a harbinger of the police state on the horizon.

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Broken windows policing reflects racialized assumptions about what is disorder and which communities are disorderly.

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Atlanta activists are calling for an independent investigation and solidarity, after police killed an Indigenous land defender in a heavily-armed raid.

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Some schools that removed police on campus following the 2020 uprisings are now asking for them to be reinstated.

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A safer plan for America would invest in its people by promoting alternative deterrents to violence.

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The protester was shot and killed on Wednesday during a chaotic raid of the “Stop Cop City” forest defense camp.

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Fascist attack on Brazilian Congress, and its financiers, will be punished says new left president Lula da Silva New left-wing Brazilian president Lula da Silva has ordered the National Guard into the country’s capital to quell riots and attacks by fascist supporters of defeated former president Jair Bolsonaro. da Silva, who was only sworn in […]

Police departments are having trouble recruiting new members. Many unemployed people prefer to work from home. Now there’s a solution: work as a cop, from home!

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