By Bernard E. Harcourt The police in New York City, Chased a boy right through the park. In a case of mistaken identity, They put a bullet through his heart. Heartbreakers, with your forty-four, I want to tear… Continue Reading
By Ghislaine Pagès I began writing this in a moment of reflection, thinking about the stories of police violence that have gone unheard, the people who have been killed by police whose stories, for some reason, do not garner national… Continue Reading
By Amna A. Akbar For many years I worked with other lawyers and law students to put on Know Your Rights communities for Black, brown, immigrant, and Muslim communities. In NYC and Columbus, Ohio, we did these trainings on request… Continue Reading
By Alex S. Vitale My abolitionist journey began about 30 years ago. In the early 1990’s I worked at the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness doing housing policy and advocating for spending for social and health programs of benefit to homeless… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt Abolish the police. #DefundNYPD. #AbolishICE. Never before has the country been engaged in such a genuine conversation about abolishing police departments. Of course, there were earlier flashpoints that raised serious challenges to the police—in the wake… Continue Reading