Do Police Have a Right to Withhold Video When They Kill Someone? Do Police Have a Right to Withhold Video When They Kill Someone?
When the police kill somebody, it’s not “private.”
May 21, 2015 / Blog / Jon Wiener
Why I Am Marching for My Son on Mother’s Day Why I Am Marching for My Son on Mother’s Day
As a mother, I feel that it is my responsibility to support others whose children have fallen victim to police violence, and to be a voice for my son Sean Bell.
May 8, 2015 / Valerie Bell
Video: The Basic Issue of the Sanctity of Black Life Has Still Not Been Settled Video: The Basic Issue of the Sanctity of Black Life Has Still Not Been Settled
Gary Younge pokes some major holes in America’s faith in “eternal progress,” then lays out next steps for racial justice with M Adams, Christine Neumann-Ortiz, an...
May 8, 2015 / The Nation
Stop the War on Baltimore Stop the War on Baltimore
Now is the time for Mayor Rawlings Blake to put an end to Baltimore police militarization.
May 6, 2015 / Dante Barry
44 Hours in a Baltimore Jail for Filming the Police 44 Hours in a Baltimore Jail for Filming the Police
Along with hundreds of others, Geremy Faulkner was swept up in one of the haphazard mass arrests that are overwhelming the courts.
May 6, 2015 / Karen Houppert
Critical Agents Critical Agents
How J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoid view of literature led him to target African-American writers.
May 6, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Peter C. Baker
2 Very Different Ways to Punish Killer Cops 2 Very Different Ways to Punish Killer Cops
The criminal-justice system is set up never to jail police. Could restorative justice serve communities better?
May 5, 2015 / Alex S. Vitale
5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists 5 Tools the Police Are Using in Their War Against Activists
From Ferguson to Baltimore, the message is clear: protest at your peril.
May 5, 2015 / Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Helpful Responses to Baltimore Helpful Responses to Baltimore
Helpfulness not guaranteed.
May 5, 2015 / Blog / Tom Tomorrow
New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters New ACLU Cellphone App Automatically Preserves Video of Police Encounters
Even if the cops seize a phone and destroy it, the video will be saved.
May 1, 2015 / Blog / Jon Wiener