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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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