Nation Topics - Police and Law Enforcement | The Nation
Topic Page
Nation Topics - Police and Law Enforcement
Articles
News and Features
The government says he is a terrorist. But his conversations with undercover police tell a different story.
The unwinnable war transforms a freedom-loving republic into a freedom-fearing national security state.
Nearly every single community member speaking at recent hearing on stop-and-frisk opposed the NYPD’s controversial policy.
While Mayor Bloomberg and Ray Kelly defend stop-and-frisk, a damning video is fueling the fight for police accountability in New York City.
Council members demanded answers from Mayor Bloomberg's representative just one day after a video released by The Nation documented an abusive stop.
An audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city’s young people of color in the NYPD's cross hairs.
Seven years after Katrina, poor people accused of crimes are being denied their right to counsel and left to languish behind bars.
Tim Weiner’s Enemies is not so much a history of the FBI as a compendium of interesting historical material.
Who is being killed by firearms, and in what numbers?
CeaseFire Chicago, pioneered by an infectious disease expert, has been heralded as an unprecedented success. Will a summer spike in homicides threaten the program in other cities where it is just taking hold?
