VIA Take Part Man in street in Ferguson, Missouri. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) April 16, 2015 By Rebecca McCray Rebecca McCray is a TakePart staff writer covering criminal justice and legal issues. She is based in New York. full bio follow me Like many Americans, Sam Sinyangwe had a lot of unanswered questions after […]
VIA Crooks and Liars by Susie Madrak Oh, come on. We all know why they want to pass this bill — they want cops to get away with abusing and killing people! (As long as they’re the right people.) The right to record, in addition to being upheld by the appellate courts, is one of the […]
VIA “countercurrentnews.com” Counter Current News It’s not your imagination: the New York Police Department has been planing evidence and framing innocent people all in order to meet arrest quotes. This comes as an a former New York City narcotics detective, Stephen Anderson, testified in court that the NYPD routinely plants drugs on innocent people. He […]
VIA “foxnews.com” Fox News The embattled chief of the Ferguson, Mo. police department has resigned, effective next week, as part of a “mutual separation” between him and the city, the Ferguson council said Wednesday. Tom Jackson’s resignation, which is effective next Thursday, is the latest leadership shakeup in the city following a scalding federal probe […]
VIA “counterculturenews.com” By now we’ve all seen the racist emails from the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. The Department of Justice report on the rampant abuses and racism emanating from the Ferguson PD noted a few of the most egregious examples of racism found in emails sent from officers in the FPD, including a “joke” about […]
VIA “countercurrentnews.com” The City of New Carlisle completely eliminated their police department several years ago. Many warned that crime would soar, but the exact opposite has happened. Since the city just outside of Dayton, Ohio canned their cops, they had been contracting with the sheriff’s department for any absolute emergency policing. But now they have […]
VIA “thefederalist.com” by Rachel Lu We need some more information before we can really say the Ferguson, Missouri police department is racist. It’s official. The Ferguson Police Department is racist. That, at any rate, was the quick takeaway from a report released yesterday on the U.S. Justice Department’s investigation of law enforcement in Ferguson, Missouri. […]
VIA “washingtonpost.com” by Sari Horwitz In an unusually frank and personal speech, FBI Director James B. Comey on Thursday addressed “hard truths” about policing, acknowledging racial bias among law enforcement officers and lamenting a “disconnect” between police agencies and communities of color. “We are at a crossroads,” Comey said. “As a society, we can choose […]
VIA “Rollingstone.com” by Josh Eells: The temperature was nearing triple digits when Jonathan Treviño strapped on his bulletproof vest, slipped his .40-caliber Glock into his ankle holster and got ready to go to work. It was Thursday, July 26th, 2012, one of those summers in South Texas when the hot air settles on the Rio […]
