This opinion piece by policing experts Seth W. Stoughton, Ian T. Adams, Geoffrey P. Alpert, Gil Kerlikowse, Maureen Q. McGough, and Jeffrey J. Noble addresses federal immigration enforcement tactics under the Trump administration. The authors argue that the conduct of agencies like ICE and CBP has departed from established norms in policing in a way that has undermined public safety, particularly through fatal shootings. They contend that these actions—marked by poor planning, aggressive field tactics, and a disregard for accountability—are not just unprofessional but dangerously authoritarian, threatening public safety and the legitimacy of policing itself.
— Read on verdict.justia.com/2026/01/29/what-federal-immigration-enforcement-is-doing-isnt-policing-and-it-isnt-normal
Tag: Police Community Relationships
Police Against the Movement: How Local Cops Sabotage Freedom Struggles with Author Joshua Davis | KPFA
This is the link to the Podcast https://archives.kpfa.org/data/20260121-Wed1600.mp3
On this episode of Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sits down with Joshua Davis, a history professor at the University of Baltimore and author of Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. The conversation digs into a part of civil rights history that is usually blurred out of the frame: how local police departments, not just the FBI, designed and refined a playbook to crush Black freedom movements and the organizers who led them.
— Read on kpfa.org/episode/hard-knock-radio-january-21-2026/
Episode 14: When the Police Back Off
There have been many questions about police proactive behavior and its impact on crime. In 2020 two events caused police officers to “back off” on their street activity. Dr. Jessica Huff explains the research into de-policing and how a reduction in proactive behavior lead to an increase in some types of crime.
Main Topics
Police officers backed off on their proactive behavior as the result of both department policy during COVID, as well as the social pressure after the death of George Floyd.
Street-level officers demonstrated a significant reduction in some behavior.
Backing off on proactive behavior was associated with an increase in some types of violent and property crime.
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Automated License Plate Readers in Iowa: Review and Recommendations – ACLU of Iowa
Automated License Plate Readers in Iowa: Review and Recommendations – ACLU of Iowa
— Read on www.aclu-ia.org/publications/automatic-license-plate-reader-report-raises-concerns-about-expansion-of-government-surveillance-in-iowa/
“Cop City”: The Problem of Police Violence in Atlanta and Beyond – WORT-FM 89.9
Esty Dinur speaks with Kamau Franklin about organizing against the militarized law enforcement training center called “Cop City” in Atlanta.
— Read on www.wortfm.org/cop-city-the-problem-of-police-violence-in-atlanta-and-beyond/
The Demographic Shift Challenging Ideas About the NYPD
Friends of Mamdani call the department “racist”; in fact, it’s majority-minority.
— Read on cityjournal.substack.com/p/the-demographic-shift-challenging
More than 40 years after police killed Eleanor Bumpurs in her Bronx apartment, people still #sayhername
The 1984 shooting death of a Black grandmother in her Bronx apartment sparked an ongoing movement against police brutality and neglect of the mentally ill.
— Read on theconversation.com/more-than-40-years-after-police-killed-eleanor-bumpurs-in-her-bronx-apartment-people-still-sayhername-267609
Paradox: Echoes of Reform & the Minneapolis Police | PBS
There are three episodes. Very interesting.
From its birth in the late 1800s, MPD has wrestled with the question of reform.
— Read on www.pbs.org/video/paradox-episode-one-0jeeyd/
Notoriously violent Brooklyn neighborhood pushes ‘police free zone’
Two blocks of a Brooklyn neighborhood were turned into a police free zone this week, The Post has learned.
— Read on nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/nypd-agrees-to-steer-clear-of-violent-brooklyn-nabe-labeling-the-two-block-stretch-a-police-free-zone/
The United Police State of America Has Arrived
The lines between local, state, and federal law enforcement and the military have blurred.
— Read on theintercept.com/2025/10/04/united-police-state-of-america/
Future of Policing 