Category: Police & Prisons
More Policing Is Not the Answer

“The Whole System Needs to Be Indicted”
Given the current pandemic medical crisis facing the US and the world, the US and all 50 states should immediately order the release of all older prisoners over the age of 50
The U.S. tops any other country in the world for its number of prisoners – over 2,300,000. China, by contrast, has roughly 200,000 prisoners
Combined, these 10 cities’ policing budgets are 3.6 times greater than public health department budgets
At the heart of each of these approaches is a commitment to building community safety and well-being by strengthening capacity for solidarity and standing up to/dismantling white supremacist violence in its many social, cultural, political and economic guises
FBI, NYPD exposed
Interview on the conditions in St. Louis jails, the protests and organizing of incarcerated people and the responses of jail officials and the media
In contrast to January 6 in Washington, DC, police in New York on Martin Luther King Jr. Day reverted to type. At least 29 people were arrested and multiple protesters were hospitalized when NYPD broke up a Black Lives Matter march held in honor of MLK Day
A Feb. 2 poll revealed that just 36% of Black Americans trust the police, compared with 77% of white Americans