Advocates and South Asian community members are calling for police not to respond to 911 mental health calls, after the NYPD shot 22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty in his home
Court records and interviews with victims show that New York Police Department officers use force on people already restrained, which some experts characterize as “torture”
“WTO/99” takes viewers back to one of the largest protests in the city’s history, which faced a brutal police response echoed two decades later during the Black Lives Matter protests
Terrell Miller was just 4 years old in March 2024 when Macomb Police Department Lt. Nick Goc shot him and his mother’s partner while responding to a domestic violence call. Goc has faced no repercussions for his use of deadly force
Mamdani’s critics have launched a smear campaign that ignores that police pose an existential threat to victims—and all of us
The death of Aaron Rainey, shot and killed by Philadelphia police in March, has renewed calls for reliable, 24/7 non-police crisis and emergency response teams
In a roundtable conversation with Prism, the co-editors of the new anthology “No Cop City, No Cop World” discuss the unique conditions that led to Atlanta’s Cop City and the strategies for fighting more than 80 similar projects nationwide
The New York State Attorney General’s Office declined last month to press charges against Officer Patrick Husnay, who fatally shot the 13-year-old Karen refugee
Karen refugee Nyah Mway was shot by police last June, fueling protests for accountability from the city and programs for local youth
The Philadelphia native was arrested during the uprisings against police brutality in 2020, when hundreds of protesters faced federal charges and stricter punishments
America watched in horror this spring as armed phalanxes of police assaulted peaceful pro-Palestine protesters on campuses across the nation. The raids on student encampments ranged from dubious arrests to snipers on campus rooftops. This most recent episode of widespread police aggression only reinforced Americans’ belief that law enforcement is
As the Pride parade rolled through the streets of Washington, D.C., earlier this month, a group of more than 20 activists entered the parade route through a barricade and quickly unfurled banners with phrases like “war profiteers out of Pride” and “queer as is Free Palestine.” They stood with
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