Class, Not 'Race'
Eric Alterman : Class
No racial profiling took place with Henry Louis Gates Jr.; it's not the "teachable moment" for which many are so understandably eager.
Police & Law Enforcement
Subsections:
2009
2008
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Justice for Sean Bell
Brett Story & VideoNation : Civil Rights Activism
Protesters decry acquittal of three New York City police officers on trial for firing 50 bullets at an unarmed man.
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Two Angry Men
Robert Perkinson : Law & Justice
Beyond the sensationalism and the sound bites, the Duke rape case reveals the perils of unchecked prosecutorial power.
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Repress U
Michael Gould-Wartofsky : Civil Rights & Liberties
Surveillance 101: Big Brother goes to college.
2007
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Locked Up in New Orleans
Robin Templeton : Jails & Prisons
In response to a crime wave, police are imprisoning a record number of nonviolent offenders.
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Surveillance Makes You Paranoid
Nicholas von Hoffman : Dissent After 9/11
Reports that New York police conducted sweeping nationwide surveillance of people suspected of anti-Bush sentiment in 2004 just might scare us into silence.
2005
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Blackwater Down
With military and law enforcement forces combing New Orleans in the wake of the storm, why did the federal government feel compelled to hire private security firms Blackwater USA and BATS to keep the peace?
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Spying on the Protesters
John S. Friedman : Peace Activism
It's déjà-vu all over again: National Guard units and federal, state and local law enforcement are spying on antiwar activists.
2004
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Lying in Wait
David Graeber : Global Justice Movement
On the eve of mass protests, police tell tales that turn out not to be true.
2003
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The Drug War Goes Up in Smoke
Sasha Abramsky : Jails & Prisons
A budget crisis and a prison boom make the states a vanguard for drug reform.
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