Mayor Bill de Blasio’s pledge to discipline officers who commit violence does nothing to address NYPD’s culture of rewarding bad behavior.
Voices
With basic government services shut down, people granted parole are unable to get on their feet after leaving prison.
On the latest episode of Intercepted, historian Simon Balto discussed his new book and the origins of Chicago police as a moralistic enforcement agency.
The War on Immigrants
An artistic intervention seeks to highlight places across the U.S. where immigrants and others are detained.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Two men have died from Covid-19 at the GEO Group’s Leidel Center in Houston. A third died just after coming home.
Protests for Black Lives
The boy was wounded and still booked into jail. “They had me believing my child was shot in the street by someone and not an officer,” his mother said.
Protests for Black Lives
Even before the police moved in to dismantle CHOP and take back Seattle's East Precinct, the Occupy-style protest was collapsing under its own weight.
The Coronavirus Crisis
For weeks, officials at Lansing Correctional Facility dismissed the coronavirus threat. Then almost 900 incarcerated men contracted Covid-19.
Protests for Black Lives
The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office threatened to arrest all protesters in the city of Graham, where a statue of Confederate soldier stands.
Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the fifth vote to overturn a Louisiana law, but his opinion still raised concerns among reproductive rights advocates.
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