LAPD helicopter unit audit
On Monday the Los Angeles City Controller’s Office released their highly anticipated LAPD helicopter unit audit. Here are three takeaways from the report.
Reform is an endorsement of a system
being okay with state violence
What the B in ACAB means
the system cannot be fixed from within
The Police Don’t Keep People Safe
they don't prevent crime or solve it once it has happened
Cops aren’t workers
police are used to maintain capital.
Neighborhood lockdown after officer’s shooting is troubling, civil liberties lawyers say
Civil Liberties lawyers today joined the chorus of concern over isolating a neighborhood and restricting the movements of residents in the name of searching for a cop killer. “We are…
Detroit police officers fight each other in undercover op gone wrong
An internal investigation has been launched at the Detroit Police Department after two different precincts got into a turf war as they converged on an east side neighborhood. DETROIT (WJBK)…
Police Torture in Chicago
An archive of articles by John Conroy on police torture, Jon Burge, and related issues