Police

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…

Stonewall at Fifty

By Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, Michelle Tea, T Kira Madden,

Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city’s most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall…

Thought Police

From a ruling handed down in September by a Louisiana district court in Officer John Doe v. DeRay Mckesson et al. The anonymous Baton Rouge police officer filed suit last…

The Spy Who Came

From oral evidence given in 2013 by Mark Kennedy, a former undercover British police officer, to the British Home Affairs Committee. Between 2003 and 2010, Kennedy used a fake identity,…

Fuzzfeed

From posts to Five-O, an app created by three African-American teenage siblings that allows users to comment on interactions with police officers. Read More

Ferguson

By Philip Montgomery,

When Pigs Buy

From a list of items available for purchase by local police departments through Department of Homeland Security grants. Read More

Good Guy With a Gun

From a complaint filed in July against Heritage Park Care Center, a nursing home in Carbondale, Colorado, by Michelle Meeker, a former nurse at the facility. The case is ongoing.…

Borderlands

By Kirsten Luce,

Photographs from Hidalgo County

The Prisoner: A Conversation with Omar Shahid Hamid

By Matthieu Aikins, on March 20, 2014

Omar Shahid Hamid on novelizing Karachi's cops and gangsters

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Monte Reel,

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

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