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- 1From:National Review (Vol. 75, Issue 4)When a life is lost in a controversial police encounter, there is a mourning ritual favored by activists. The name of the deceased is added to a grim litany and recited together with the familiar names of other people:...
- 2From:The New York Times MagazineTo hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android . Col. Paul Humphrey moved into the Louisville Metro Police Department's training headquarters last March,...
- 3From:The EconomistArea of control How Xi Jinping is mobilising the masses to police themselves I N 1963 MAO ZEDONG launched a campaign known as the "Four Clean-ups", an attempt to rid China's politics, economy, organisations and...
- 4From:The Brooklyn RailOur Lancaster brethren, they just don't have that kind of fight in them. --Local Man, Witness On the foggy morning of September 11, 1851 Edward Gorsuch, a Maryland slave owner, along with a posse he had organized,...
- 5From:The Progressive (Vol. 86, Issue 5)While President Joe Biden has signed into law some of his top agenda items--like the Inflation Reduction Act--another important piece of legislation, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021, was blocked in the...
- 6From:The EconomistProgressive prosecutors are losing ground across America A T THE SITE where George Floyd was murdered in May 2020 in Minneapolis, a rough shrine has emerged. Surrounding a sculpture of a black fist are banners, flags...
- 7From:The EconomistStarting a time of trouble How an east-coast city gave warning of what would come I N A FEDERAL courtroom in Baltimore on July 14th, a defendant named Steven Angelini sat at a desk wearing a mask and an orange...
- 8From:New Internationalist (Issue 536)It was a freezing cold, grey October day in London. My hands and feet were numb but, transfixed by what I was hearing, I didn't want to go home. It was 2018 and I'd travelled to the capital to join the annual United...
- 9From:New Internationalist (Issue 536)POLICING ALTERNATIVES & DIVERSION INITIATIVE Residents of Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, can now dial 311 instead of 911 if they feel the need to call someone when a person is panhandling or looking for food and...
- 10From:New Internationalist (Issue 535)In Buenos Aires it seems that the cultural landscape changes with each passing year. When I came here 10 years ago, it was the place to be, thronging with tourists, attractive to migrants, with people enjoying its public...
- 11From:Public Management (Vol. 103, Issue 8)The topic for this month's PM is gnarly issues and our contributors have done a great job of addressing some of the most "wicked" of these, especially in the wake of a global pandemic. But I thought I would turn that...
- 12From:Public Management (Vol. 103, Issue 8)On May 25, 2020, the brutal death of George Floyd shook many Americans to the core. Video footage of Mr. Floyd's last moments revealed systemic racism that permeates many corners of our society, and the challenges that...
- 13From:Public Management (Vol. 103, Issue 8)The Opportunity The repercussions of the tragic deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd had a profound effect on policing in America. Looking back, 2020 showed that across the nation police departments and the...
- 14From:National Review (Vol. 73, Issue 8)* A new study has produced a difficult result for the Black Lives Matter movement. BLM's protests, according to the analysis, reduced police homicides by about 300 between 2014 and 2019. But the protests increased...
- 15From:Education Week (Vol. 40, Issue 31)For many Americans, the decision by a Minnesota jury last week to convict former police officer Derek Chauvin of the murder and manslaughter of an unarmed Black man, George Floyd, came as a rare moment of...
- 16From:The Brooklyn RailIn the summer of 2014 an NYPD officer choked Eric Garner to death in an altercation that began because the officer suspected that Garner was selling loose cigarettes. Garner's last words, "I can't breathe," were caught...
- 17From:Education Week (Vol. 40, Issue 23)Fewer cops. More support staff. That's the upshot of a strategy the Los Angeles school board approved last week to finance an achievement plan for Black students. Seventy sworn officers, 62 nonsworn officers, and one...
- 18From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 57, Issue 8)Pope Francis is obsessed with waste. The theme appears in each of his encyclicals. He's especially critical of how readily contemporary capitalist economies dispose of things they cannot extract use or profit from. It's...
- 19From:Military Police (Vol. 21, Issue 1)While the concept of community policing is often discussed, many do not realize that community policing is more complex than simply talking to people or playing basketball with the residents of a neighborhood. First, it...
- 20From:The Progressive (Vol. 84, Issue 6)At six feet four inches and 290 pounds, Thomas Owen Baker looks the part of a hulking riot cop. On November 30, 2011, he was assigned to provide crowd control at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa in Scottsdale,...