Police

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/6/19
  

  Stonewall Riot Apology: Police Actions Were ‘Wrong,’ Commissioner Admits

  The commissioner, James O’Neill, said he was sorry on behalf of the New York Police Department for officers’ actions during a seminal 1969 clash outside a gay bar.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5-14-18
  

  It's Time for Police to Start Snitching

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  Communities of color are actually disproportionately likely to report crimes—it’s police themselves who have maintained a corrosive culture of silence.

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• 10-15-16
  

  The Book Historian Carol Anderson Had to Write After Ferguson

  by Sharon Arana

  The “analysis” from newscasters and pundits was so ahistorical that they had put all their attention on the flames. In doing so, they missed the kindling.

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• 11-21-15
  

  The Long Frightening History of White Police Officers Shooting Innocent Black Suspects

  by Edward Freedman

  Officers’ tendency to see what they fear can make them dangerously fallible. A society that shares this conditioning is inclined to dismiss their mistakes.

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• 6-11-15
  

  Why We Can’t Look Away from Violence Against Black People

  by Allyson Hobbs

  The only way to stop the often-sanctioned violence of the present is to reckon with the past. We can no longer look away.

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• 6-9-15
  

  Why the Shocking Video of the Police Attack on Black Kids at a Pool Shouldn’t Shock Us

  by Victoria W. Wolcott

  In the past when white neighbors perceived a threat from young blacks they called on their teenage sons to attack the invaders and maintain segregation. Today they call the cops.

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• 4-18-15
  

  Historicizing Ferguson: Police Violence and the Genesis of a National Movement

  This video features statements by three local activists in Ferguson, Missouri who joined the movement to protest police violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last summer.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-20-15
  

  Reaching Into the Past, the Police Dust Off a Photographic Trove to Rival Weegee’s

  The National Endowment for the Humanities will announce a $125,000 grant it has awarded to the Department of Records and Information for the digitization of 30,000 of the pictures.

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  2-2-15
  

  The True History of the Origins of Police -- Protecting and Serving the Masters of Society

  by Sam Mitrani

  The liberal way of viewing the problem rests on a misunderstanding of the origins of the police.

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• 9-2-14
  

  Everybody Wants to Talk About What Happened in Ferguson. Here's How a Constructive Conversation Might Begin.

  by Mike McQuillan

  It’s time to pay up – not in dollars but in commitment to a long-term “national conversation” in many parts of the nation to bridge the racial divide, root out the causes of conflict, and solve them.

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• 8-20-14
  

  How Ferguson Is Playing in the Rest of the World

  by Aaron Brown

  During the Cold War, the United States was often criticized abroad for its inability to deal with the issue of Civil Rights--and now we are once again.

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• 8-20-14
  

  Ferguson, Missouri: This Is Who We Are

  by Simon Balto

  "This is who we are. It’s who we’ve been for a very long time. Godspeed to the people of Ferguson, and to everyone else out there working to fix us."

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• Police Need to Be Held Accountable for Attacks on the Disabled

  by David M. Perry

  Robert Saylor, a 26-year-old man with Down Syndrome, died after being put in handcuffs by officers outside of a movie theater. That's only one of dozens of recent incidents.

• SOURCE: NYT
  5-26-13
  

  Founder of CT military museum killed by police

  A Connecticut man who was shot and killed by the local police at the start of the Memorial Day weekend was identified Sunday by state authorities as a 75-year-old Army veteran and founder of a military museum in Danbury.The authorities said the man, John Valluzzo, was armed with a handgun when officers from the Ridgefield Police Department confronted him in the front yard of his property on Friday just after 5:15 p.m. The officers had responded to a call of a domestic dispute at that address, 423 Ridgebury Road in Ridgefield, along a verdant stretch of sizable homes.

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• Ten Years of "Police Advisors" in Iraq

  by Martha K. Huggins

  Iraqi Special Operation Forces arresting a "suspect" in a training operation in 2009. Credit: Flickr/U.S. Army.Ten years ago, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq and that country's descent into anarchy, the United States began assisting, training, and equipping the Iraqi police.