Feb 18, 2010
SF Chief REALLY Wants Tasers!
From the Chronicle: “The San Francisco Police Commission heard a litany of expert testimony Wednesday to support the police chief’s...
Feb 15, 2010
Checkpoint = CashCow
From Mother Jones: “Sobriety checkpoints in California are increasingly turning into profitable operations for local police...
Feb 6, 2010
BPD SUED FOR DAMAGES!
According to Courthouse News: “J. Hadley Louden says he was marching down Telegraph Avenue during the 2009 Mardi Gras parade, “wearing a...
Feb 2, 2010
Austin CW in the News!
From the Daily Texan: “Copwatch is a group of community residents that works toward increasing public participation in police...
Feb 2, 2010
Police Harassment in NYC
From Bob Herbert at the NYT Editorial Desk: “Statistics will be out shortly about the total number of people who were stopped and frisked...
Feb 2, 2010
Privatizing Incarceration and Policing
This is a piece from the Center for International Policy at the America’s Program. It focuses primarily on listing the major players and...
Jan 25, 2010
1/3 of Police Shootings Avoidable — ACCORDING TO POLICE!
From the SF Chronicle: “One-third of shootings by San Francisco police over a five-year period might have been avoided had officers been...
