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What ‘Defund the Police’ Really Means

March 3, 2021February 28, 2021 Simon Balto

In late 1969, Fred Hampton issued a call to defund the police, if in different terms than those currently in

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Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State

November 11, 2020November 9, 2020 Denise Lynn Black political thought, black politics, class, Communism, police brutality, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Capitalism, racism

During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that

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Police Power and the Election of Newark’s First Black Mayor

September 18, 2020September 17, 2020 Andrew Grim electoral politics, police brutality, policing, Politics

Fifty years ago, Newark, New Jersey, elected its first Black mayor—Kenneth Gibson—at a moment when there was an urgency to

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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Yannick Marshall police brutality, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism

It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton

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Police Professionalization and the Institutionalization of Racist Repression

April 8, 2020April 5, 2020 Max Felker-Kantor #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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