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According to a new report, the pepper spraying of peacefully protesting UC Davis students last year “should and could have been prevented.”

Could litigation over the Occupy movement strengthen First Amendment rights for protesters?

The militarization of our police forces has turned a vital public-safety institution against its own people.

Attacks on peaceful protesters rarely make the police or government look anything but weak and cowardly.

Five years ago next week, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the body of Henry Glover was found burned in a charred sedan overlooking the Mississippi River in New Orleans. The case was mysterious from the start, but it wasn't until A.C. Thompson's 2009 article for The Nation that a real investigation began.

In the anarchic days after Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans police department were responsible for much of the deadly violence.

Advocates pushing for reform and immigrants clamoring for justice in the streets will not forget the recent violence in Los Angeles.

The City of Philadelphia seems poised to pay the price for being an overzealous host to the GOP.

Those endless wars on crime and drugs--a staple of 90 percent of America's politicians these last thirty years--have engendered not merely our 2 million prisoners but a vindictive hysteria that p