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  1. the system
    How Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ Trumped JusticeThree years after the George Floyd protests, environmental activists are being charged as terrorists.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  2. the system
    The Government’s Telling Response to Tyre Nichols’s DeathThe reforms being considered would probably not have prevented his killing. But officials have gotten better at preempting outrage.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  3. tyre nichols
    Eric Adams Defends Specialized Police Units Following Tyre Nichols CaseThe New York mayor said that, while he did not want to second-guess the decision to disband Memphis’s SCORPION unit, “units don’t create abuse.”
    By Nia Prater
  4. criminal justice reform
    Biden’s Low Marks on Crime Are Killing ReformThe prospect of meaningful change has never looked bleaker.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  5. policing
    New Report Details How and Why Routine Traffic Stops Turn DeadlyPolice have killed over 400 people in the last five years who weren’t armed or being pursued for a violent crime, the investigation found.
    By Paola Rosa-Aquino
  6. public safety
    The Police’s Farcical War on Vaccine MandatesIt turns out cops may not have a special appreciation for the sanctity of life after all.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  7. what reckoning?
    The Senate Wants to Give Us a Lot More CopsLast year’s so-called reckoning with race is curdling into a bipartisan love fest for the police.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  8. politics
    What Cori Bush Taught the LeftTo move the Democrats, you have to humiliate them.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  9. policing
    Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo’s Grim Vision for New York CityThis dystopian rhetoric has been used before — with disastrous results.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  10. nyc mayoral race
    Eric Adams Is No PragmatistThe likely next mayor of New York is just as much an ideologue as his opponents.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  11. policing
    When Cops Commit Property DamageThe LAPD’s detonation of a de facto bomb in a Los Angeles neighborhood highlights a different sort of police impunity.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  12. criminal justice
    Progressives Don’t Need to Downplay Rising HomicidesVictims of community violence deserve the left’s solidarity and policy solutions.
    By Eric Levitz
  13. public space
    Last Night in Echo ParkOn the scene as the LAPD evicted an enormous community of unhoused residents from the shore of Echo Park Lake.
    By Alissa Walker
  14. ideas
    Social Workers Instead of Police? Denver’s 911 Experiment Is a Promising StartSix months into a pilot program that deploys squads of caregivers in place of cops, there are signs of success.
    By Alissa Walker
  15. new york city
    The City Just Released a Massive NYPD-Misconduct DatabaseThe move follows the repeal of 50-a, the state law that had long shielded police-misconduct records from public scrutiny.
    By James D. Walsh
  16. new york’s finest
    The NYPD’s Top Anti-Harassment Cop Might Be a Racist TrollThe head of the department’s Equal Employment Opportunity Division is alleged to have frequently posted vitriol on an anonymous message board.
    By James D. Walsh
  17. policing
    You Can’t Vote Out the PoliceThe problem of the police riot goes beyond partisan and even electoral remedies.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  18. bad apples
    In L.A. County, Gangs Wear BadgesA helpful illustration of a perverse incentive structure.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  19. 2020 elections
    The ‘Tough on Crime’ TicketThe historical irony of a Biden-Harris ticket during a criminal-justice reckoning.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  20. police reform
    The Window for Major Police Reform May Be ClosingThe superficial consensus in polls demonstrating that the public supports police reform hides deeper issues.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  21. bill de blasio
    Bill de Blasio Is Using New York’s Murder Rate to DemagogueThe mayor doesn’t know why murder rates have risen in the city. But he’s using them for political purposes anyway.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  22. profile
    Julián Castro and the ‘Timeless’ Policing CrisisPolicing reform was the centerpiece of his failed campaign. Now, it’s all anyone is talking about.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  23. policing
    Protests Might Spread the Coronavirus. Curfews and Crackdowns Definitely Will.Curfew orders are getting legal authority from the pandemic, but their enforcement will make the virus spread further.
    By Irin Carmon
  24. policing
    Cops Get Away With Murder Because They’re PopularThe police are legally unaccountable because they’re politically powerful. Reforms must attack — and circumvent — the sources of their power.
    By Eric Levitz
  25. coronavirus
    Even During a Pandemic, the NYPD Is Still the NYPDThe novel coronavirus hasn’t changed its basic nature.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  26. nypd
    NYC Prosecutors Keep Lists of Police Officers Who Lie Too MuchThere’s no indication that these officers have had their other policing duties restricted.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  27. policing
    NYC’s Police-Union Leaders Are UnhingedThis is not normal behavior.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  28. policing
    LAPD Is Falsely Labeling People As Gang Members. It’s Part of a Bigger Crisis.LAPD officers’ falsely labeling people as gang members reveals a bigger problem: It doesn’t take much to get yourself added to a gang database.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  29. debates
    Julián Castro’s Perspective on Gun Violence and Policing Remains Essential“Police violence is also gun violence.”
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  30. policing
    Officer Suspended After Arresting First-Grader. His Behavior Fits a Pattern.Black children in schools are subjected to police involvement at alarming rates.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  31. ferguson
    5 Years After Ferguson, Racial Disparities in Traffic Stops Have Gotten WorseA big problem driving the 2014 unrest was black motorists getting stopped disproportionately. The gap between them and white motorists is now wider.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  32. white supremacy
    Racism Is Good at Hiding. Just Ask This White Nationalist Police Officer.A school resource officer in Virginia is also a member of Identity Evropa. His job? To help bigots conceal their bigotry from the public.
    By Zak Cheney-Rice
  33. Patrisse Khan-Cullors on 5 Years of Black Lives MatterThe activist gives a progress report on the movement, and talks about where it goes now, in Trump’s America.
    By Timothy Bella
  34. policing
    Trump to Lift Ban on Providing Military Gear to Local PoliceObama severely curtailed the program following the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  35. Prosecutors May Purge Some Low-Level Warrants Dating Back DecadesA new plan to respond to broken-windows tactics, according to a report in the New York Times.
    By Jen Kirby
  36. America Isn’t Suffering a Surge in Violent Crime — But Some of Its Cities AreMurder rates are spiking in disadvantaged urban communities, while the national homicide rate remains near historic lows.
    By Eric Levitz
  37. The Justice Department Issues Scathing Indictment of the Baltimore Police The DOJ found that Baltimore police violated residents’ constitutional rights through unlawful stops and excessive force.
    By Eric Levitz
  38. 4 Questions Raised by the Deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando CastileFour pressing questions about race and policing in America.
    By Eric Levitz
  39. Half of People Killed at the Hands of Police Are DisabledWhy don’t we talk about this more? 
    By Samuel Lieberman
  40. feature
    Baltimore After Freddie GrayA year after his death, murders in the city have soared, and the relationship between violence and policing has never been more complicated.
    By Benjamin Wallace-Wells