How U.S. Justice Department disarmed its police reform effort

In 2017, a white St. Louis policeman was acquitted of murdering a Black man. The verdict sparked days of protests and clashes with police. Before shifts that week, two officers texted colleagues, ...
The New York Times

A Revolution in Public Safety Is Underway

The authors work at the Policing Project at the N.Y.U. School of Law. The project works with communities and the police to promote public safety. Something important has been happening in American ...
Observer-Reporter

OP-ED: A fact-based look at America’s violence problem

Every time a high-profile shooting makes headlines, America relives the same cycle: shock, outrage, and the inevitable chorus of demands to ban “assault weapons,” defund the police, blame political ...
AOL

Trump Wants To Revive the Militarization of Police: The White House May Be Setting Us Up For a New Wave of Police Abuses—and Necessary Calls For Reform

In recent years, American public opinion about police has swung wildly from strong support for law enforcement, to serious calls for reform in the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality and ...
The Grio

Barack Obama warns against Trump’s militarization of American police and cities

Former President Barack Obama is continuing his criticisms of President Donald Trump’s actions, this time warning against the 47th president of the United States’ recent takeover of the D.C. local ...