For too many police officers, suspects don’t count as human. We all suffer the consequences. | | themercury.com

My junior high school world history teacher once explained to us how our government prepared the American public for the grotesqueries of war. First, he said, the government had to
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Center For Policing Equity Publishes Report On Anti-Black Racial Disparities In Police Stops – Black Star News

The Center for Policing Equity (CPE) announces the publication of a new white paper titled “Compounding Anti-Black Racial Disparities in Police Stops.” This paper provides an overview of racial disparities in the multiple decisions police officers make when interacting with the public during vehicle stops. More specifically, the white paper maps how racial disparities during traffic stops increase the risks of harm for Black drivers at subsequent decision points throughout the encounter and that these traffic stops serve no public safety or crime reduction purpose.
— Read on blackstarnews.com/center-for-policing-equity-publishes-report-on-anti-black-racial-disparities-in-police-stops/

The Skanner News – Police Stop More Black Drivers, While Speed Cameras Issue Unbiased Tickets − New Study From Chicago

Traffic stops by Chicago police have more than doubled over the past nine years in what the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil rights group, is calling the “new stop-and-frisk.”

Stop and frisk is when officers stop and search people based on “reasonable suspicion” that they are involved in criminal activity. The practice has been documented to disproportionately target Black and Latino people – not only in Chicago but also in New York and across the United States. In Chicago, it has declined sharply since a 2015 reform agreement between the ACLU and the Chicago Police Department.
— Read on www.theskanner.com/news/usa/36350-police-stop-more-black-drivers-while-speed-cameras-issue-unbiased-tickets-new-study-from-chicago

Reports and Body-cam Video Raise Familiar Concerns About Baltimore Police Plainclothes Unit

In May, a Baltimore Police Department detective pointed his service weapon to the temple of a prone and restrained Baltimore man.
— Read on thegarrisonproject.org/bpd-dat-arrest-joyner/

Bias at the Core?: Enduring Racial Disparities in D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Stop-and-Frisk Practices (2022-2023) | ACLU of DC

This report covers data collected between January 1, 2022 and December 31, 2023. The data analyzed in this report indicates that the stark racial disparities present in the 2019 and 2020 stops data remain. MPD continues to disproportionately stop Black people in D.C.
— Read on www.acludc.org/en/publications/bias-core-enduring-racial-disparities-dc-metropolitan-police-department-stop-and-frisk

Get a .PDF copy of the report HERE

Breonna Taylor’s mother speaks on Capitol Hill, demands police reform

Crump is a lier. Rodney King wasn’t killed by police. Michael Brown never had his hands up don’t shoot. Crump is never held accountable for his lies!!!!

Tamika Palmer was on Capitol Hill Friday morning alongside civil rights attorney Ben Crump and other families impacted by police violence.
— Read on www.wave3.com/2024/09/13/breonna-taylors-mother-speaks-capitol-hill-demands-police-reform/

Conversations on Race and Policing | CSUSB

Note: There is an archive lecture page accessible from the menu from the link below. There are several interesting interviews past and future. Make sure to check out this resource.

Conversations on Race and Policing | CSUSB
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90% of Michigan state troopers are white − why making the force more representative is a challenge

From culture shock to a lack of family support, slow progress on diversity in police recruitment reflects real challenges in a tough field.
— Read on theconversation.com/90-of-michigan-state-troopers-are-white-why-making-the-force-more-representative-is-a-challenge-226938

A Decade of Ignorance | City Journal

Ferguson inaugurated ten years of lies about race in America.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/ferguson-inaugurated-ten-years-of-lies-about-race-in-america

THE INJUSTICE OF UNDER-POLICING IN AMERICA1 | American Journal of Law and Equality | MIT Press

Since 2014, viral images of Black people being killed at the hands of the police—Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and many, many others—have
— Read on direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/doi/10.1162/ajle_a_00030/112647