Nation Topics - Police and Law Enforcement | The Nation

Several thousand people marched in silence down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on June 17 to demand an end to the New York Police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policy.

Community members gathered to protest the discriminatory practice that has increased by 600 percent since Mayor Bloomberg took office.

In the public imagination, September 11, 2001 marked the arrival of Islam in this country, bound to narratives of destruction and terror.

Growing public protest, along with two landmark lawsuits, may put an end to this dragnet policy that overwhelmingly targets young black and Latino men.

Behind nearly every “foiled terror plot” lurks a government informant sent to entrap hapless young Muslim men.

Before the War on Terror and Ray Kelly's spies, the War on Crime helped transform the NYPD into a small army.

How government and corporations use the poor as piggy banks.

What makes this case exceptional is neither race nor the politics of self-defense alone but the total failure to investigate it for so long.

Outrage over the surveillance of Muslim communities must be channeled into pressure to investigate—and end—the federally funded program.

For there to be any kind of change, outrage over the NYPD's spying operation will need to spread more broadly throughout the progressive community.