Policing and Social Justice Project

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Convention 2026 planning tools.

Convention 2026 planning tools.

Critics argue that Axon, a Flock rival, brings similar privacy issues.

This interview was first broadcast on Doug Henwood’s show, Behind the News, on KPFA, Berkeley, on September 3, 2026, and circulated to the podcast universe shortly after. The full archive of BtN, g…

Podcast Episode · Behind the News with Doug Henwood · September 3 · 53m

Author Alex Vitale says that while there was a backlash to the term “defund,’ many of the changes called for by the movement are happening across the country.

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An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus...

Dozens of cities canceled contracts with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for police departments, amid strong backlash. Privacy experts say some alternatives are no better than Flock.

New York State’s Rape Crisis Centers are calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to restore millions in funding cuts they say will leave sexual assault survivors — including children — without critical servi...

New York State’s Rape Crisis Centers are calling on Governor Kathy Hochul to restore millions in funding cuts they say will leave sexual assault survivors — including children — without critical servi...

The founder and CEO of Our Rescue resigned in 2023 amid allegations that he had sexually abused and trafficked women himself.

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The FBI and the Maine Attorney General's Office are investigating the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Colombian man by federal law enforcement in Biddeford Monday morning. And, according to Maine Sen....

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

Teachers call for schools to be urgently adapted for hot weather amid reports of nausea, fainting and heatstroke

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked for 35 years from sunrise to sunset to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He had also been working toward securing legal status in the U.S. after neg...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — An off-duty NYPD officer was arrested on Wednesday evening and charged with rape, according to the NYPD. The suspect, identified as Joshua Acosta, 39, was apprehended…

For over 19 months, cops across the state continuously used OCSD’s Flock system to track protesters, almost all linked to anti-ICE demonstrations.

Two ICE vehicles blocked in a suspect they were trying to arrest Wednesday morning, then agents opened fire.

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