This article is a response to “To Transform Policing, We Need Community Control” by Jazmine Salas. Centuries of attempts to “correct” or “reform” paramilitary policing have not changed the fact that ...
A protester holds an Abolish the Police banner in Irving Square Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) This article is a response to “Community Control Won’t Fix ...
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to extend his administration’s takeover of Washington D.C.’s police force past the 30 days he’s initially been granted—but the president will need ...
In 2018, Oakland enacted an innovative law giving citizens a voice in police use of surveillance technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it “the new gold standard in community control of ...
In 2020, calls to defund the police echoed a longstanding argument in critical criminology in favour of police abolition. Academics who support abolition promote activism over collaboration. But as ...
ANNAPOLIS. TO GAIN LOCAL CONTROL. OVER THE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. DEBORAH: YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT THE STATE CURRENTLY RUNS THE AGENCY. >> THE BALTIMORE POLICE APARTMENT BECAME A STATE AGENCY AFTER ...
KMBC9S MICHEAL MAHONEY AS THE LATEST. THE CASE IS ABOUT WHO WILL CONTROL A PART OF BUT NOT ALL OF THE LIPOCE DEPARTMENT BUDGET THE POLICE COMMISSION OR CITY HALL. THIS IS A LAWIT ASUBOUT JEFFERSON ...
The residents of Baltimore have waited 163 years to take back control of their city police department. Now, they may wait at least one more. The city’s Local Control Advisory Board, the group that ...
The St. Louis police department was under state control for more than 140 years. From the Civil War, all the way to just a decade ago. Republicans in the Missouri legislature want to take control of ...
Republicans in the legislature are making yet another outrageous power grab. Facebook/St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (OFFICIAL) Fresh from their statewide victory over Kansas Citians in ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (First Alert 4) - The legal battle over state control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has entered a new phase, as the lawsuit challenging the controversial ...