Police

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,

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 Read More

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Monte Reel,

Twenty-year-old Davonte Flennoy was killed on a Monday night in June 2012. As the setting for a murder, South Rockwell Street, in Chicago’s Marquette Park, was familiar enough to border…

Freeze!

From 2012 and 2013 blotters of the police department in Unalaska, Alaska, a town of 4,400 in the Aleutian Islands. Read More

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