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Teach Officers How to Listen
This is what it looks like when cops lie
Terrance Franklin Killing by Minneapolis Cops Under Scrutiny
We Own This City: David Simon, George Pelecanos Interview
Basketball Guru's Daily Grind Guides Youth to College
The Complex Dynamic Between 'Violence Interrupters' and Police
He Patrolled the Neighborhoods Where His Sons Were Drawn into Violence
America's Policing System Is Broken. It's Time to Radically Rethink Public Safety
'We don’t have to live like this,’ Black residents say as Washington, D.C., homicides jump 33%
How a Journalist’s Refusal to Testify Against the Black Panthers Changed First Amendment Rights
The Trace
Trump Abandoned Police Reform. Fort Wayne is Paying the Price.
These Detroit Activists Help People Turn Themselves In for Gun Crimes
Minnesota’s Gun Politics Mirror the Nation’s Divide
Wisconsin Republicans Condemn Milwaukee for Gun Violence While Blocking Solutions
In Peoria, Illinois, Community Members Want Prosecutors to Solve More Gun Homicides
Detroit Ended 2024 with the Lowest Number of Homicides Since 1965. Now It May Lose a Crucial Program.
TIME Magazine
The Toll of Unsolved Inner-City Murders
The Enduring Mystery of Malcolm X's Assassination
Why So Much of America's Gun Violence Gets Overlooked
Amid a Continuing Wave of Gun Violence, This U.S. City is Bucking the Trend
Anticipating COVID-19 Outbreaks, Rikers Island Offers Warning For U.S. Jails, Prisons
Two Years After George Floyd’s Murder, Minneapolis Is Still Struggling to Redefine Policing
A Small Tennessee Town Is at the Center of a Big Lawsuit Involving Race, Power and Money
Activists Say Minneapolis Leaders Need to Make Drastic Changes After George Floyd's Murder
Hollywood So Often Gets Black History Wrong. Black Filmmakers Are Setting the Record Straight
What One Crowdfunding Campaign Reveals About Why It's Hard for U.S. Cities to Address Violence
Miscellaneous
What Does It Take To Prosecute a Hate Crime?
Disrupting Gun Violence: A Whole-Community Approach
Does “Community Policing” Reduce Harms or Enable More of the Same?
Why Michael Slager's conviction may not change cases of shootings by police
The death of Stephon Clark: What we know about the Sacramento police shooting
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