The Promise of Marronage
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
14 posts in ‘police violence’
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
When slain by police, Black women and girls rarely garner the same communal outcry or political response as their fallen Black brothers.
For a moment, the George Floyd uprising made the white supremacist power structure tremble. Let's hold on to that and carry it forward.
Ending qualified immunity won’t solve police violence. But making officers feel the sting of their actions in court can get us a step closer to ending it.
The criminal legal system heaps more violence on victims of gender-based violence. Abolishing these structures is the only way to protect them.
The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans have long been targets of legal and extralegal violence by the police. Learning this history is a step toward ending abuses that persist to this day.
How we're helping journalists report more deeply, more precisely, and more carefully on the law, on the criminal system, and towards justice.
The movement to end police violence has a rich visual history. In Brooklyn, a collective of volunteers is doing its part to preserve it.
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
The tangle of policy responses following the 2020 uprisings over police violence shows that both Republicans and Democrats failed to meet the moment.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
Law enforcement of women’s bodies is a structural and systematic form of police violence. All of us are less safe if we don’t end this brutal expression of state-sanctioned power.