2015/03/04 – The Justice Department on Wednesday released a scathing 102-page report revealing systemic racial discrimination against African-Americans at the hands of the Ferguson Police Department and city officials. After an extensive federal civil rights probe, the Justice Department found what it described …..
2015/3/2-The Justice Department has nearly completed a highly critical report accusing the police in Ferguson, Mo., of making discriminatory traffic stops of African-Americans that created years of racial animosity leading up to an officer’s shooting of a black teenager last …..
2015/01/05 – In a classic study on race, psychologists staged an experiment with two photographs that produced a surprising result. They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another …..
2015/01/05 – Community policing is expensive and, in an era of budget cuts, increasingly rare. It’s also essential to fixing the relationship between police and the communities they serve. Pittsburgh police chief Cameron McLay angered some police officers and pleasantly surprised their …..
It’s been an exceptionally awful year. 2014/12/29 – The world may not actually be falling apart—but it feels like America is. From police brutality and botched executions to voter suppression and election corruption, 2014 was a terrible year for civil liberties in …..
