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Police-community relations

Which Side Are You On?

by Kevin Baker,

On December 20, 2014, a twenty-eight-year-old man named Ismaaiyl Brinsley walked up to a parked patrol car in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, pulled out a semiautomatic handgun, and fired…

Troubleshootings

From a Los Angeles Police Commission meeting held on June 2 using Zoom, a videoconferencing platform, which lasted seven hours. Richard Tefank is the executive director of the commission, Mike…

No Biggie

From behaviors described in media reports since 2014 that prompted police officers to question, detain, or arrest black people in the United States. Sitting in a parked carSitting in a…