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Tasers Claimed 49 Lives in 2018 Through Police Violence
06 Feb 2019
There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Cop-Control Movement Targets Chicago Council
04 Feb 2019
Community control of police activists in Chicago are challenging virtually the entire city council in this month’s elections.
Paul Street
Chicago Racist Police-State Blues: Sixteen Shots for Laquan, Three Years for Van Dyke
23 Jan 2019
Street activism led to an historic murder conviction of a killer cop, but then a racist judge let him off with a light sentence.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Gang Activity is False Cover for Mass NYC Arrests
31 Dec 2018
Mass arrests targeting hundreds of young Black and brown New Yorkers are based on false premises and hyped-up evidence, said Robert Gangi, of the Police Reform Organizing Project (
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Report Documents Police Use of Force in New Jersey
17 Dec 2018
Zayid Muhammad, of Newark Communities for Accountable Policing, was pleasantly surprised at the scope of a NJ Advanced Media report on police use of force in every city and town in
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Accountability Movement Declares War on Chicago City Council
11 Dec 2018
Veteran activist Frank Chapman says supporters of C-PAC, the proposed Civilian Police Accountability Council, plan to run candidates for every seat on the Chicago board of alderman
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Violent Cops are Health Menace
10 Dec 2018
Activists of Critical Resistance won American Public Health Association endorsement of the principle that police violence is a public health issue.
Cat Brooks
This Law Helps Police Get Away With Murder. Let's End It.
20 Nov 2018
Officers, who are armed and tasked to serve and protect, should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us, not a lower one.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
Police Reform Doesn’t Work, Says Sociologist
13 Nov 2018
“Show me the American city where Black and brown folks are happy with the policing that emerges from” the usual menu of police re-training, body cameras and increased minority hiring.
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
You Can’t Separate Police and Violence
22 Oct 2018
“Police reform can’t work,” said Micol Seigel, author of Violence Work: State Power and the Limits of Police,“because the rock-bottom function of the police is to do the w