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Police


In Plain Sight (if we looked)

John Garvey

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For the past couple of months, weโ€™ve been seeing news reports and ads that tell us: โ€œWeโ€™re all in this togetherโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™re strongโ€ and โ€œWeโ€™ll never forget our heroesโ€.ย  Most of the reports and ads ...

Bigfoot Cop and the End of Policing

Jarrod Shanahan

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โ€œGoddamnit, Bigfoot!โ€ fumes the Portland police chief. โ€œHow many goddamn times do I have to tell you that you canโ€™t go around pulling off peopleโ€™s arms, smashing goddamn cars, killing suspects โ€“ and goddamn civilians โ€“ ...

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Police Killings, Class, and “Race”

Noel Ignatiev

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When I was doing research for How the Irish Became White, I looked at the prison population of Philadelphia from 1815 to 1824, and found, to no oneโ€™s surprise, that black people made up a far ...

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Three barbers working furiously… and a fourth murdered

Kingsley Clarke

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It has become a tradition in Chicago for black barbers to give free haircuts to neighborhood schoolboys during the last days before school commences. (Chicago Public Schools open Tuesday.) I walked by the neighborhood barber shop ...

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Pennsylvania Sheriff Warns: Accept No Imitation

Noel Ignatiev

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Earlier this month a mysterious call came through to Dr. Mark Crucianiโ€™s office in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The caller identified himself as a sheriffโ€™s deputy from Lackawanna County and informed Cruciani that he had missed a court ...

Date Night in Astoria, Queens

Zhandarka Kurti

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I get out of the cab and find myself in front of a large stone building resembling a foreign embassy, not unlike the ones you find in the upper east side of Manhattan. The words โ€œCasa ...

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Thoughts on Dallas and Baton Rouge

James Murray

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By James Murray The American liberal-left have almost universally condemned the recent martyrdom operations (I donโ€™t know what else to call them) that occurred in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Such actions set back โ€˜the movement,โ€™ we ...

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How many?

Noel Ignatiev

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How many of those condemning the shooting of the police in Dallas and equating Micah Johnson with the cops in Baton Rouge, St. Paul and elsewhere who routinely kill people for being black mean what they ...

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Some Bullshit

Jarrod Shanahan

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In late December, 2014 the New York Patrolmenโ€™s Benevolent Association coordinated a work slowdown that effectively brought street-level policing to a halt in New York City.For the previous month, diffuse direct actions that would come to ...