Massachusetts Chief of Police Sends Racist Emails to Town Officials, Keeps Job
“I couldn’t resist!!!” That’s the last line of a particularly racist email sent by Leyden, Massachusetts Police Chief Daniel Galvis to town officials and fellow officers on March 8, 2016. The email, a chain forward called “FW: How Is Tarzan Doing?” ends with the noble savage telling a nameless third
Abolishing Police Surveillance In NYC: Will Transparency Help Or Make It Harder?
New York City implemented a police surveillance transparency law, but activists are divided on if it helps or hurts their cause.
New Hampshire’s Homeless Fight For Shelter Despite Forceful Encampment Evictions
New Hampshire’s homeless population, urgently fighting for shelter in a pandemic, struggles as state ignores demands and evicts encampments.
Thousands Of Mathematicians Join Boycott Against Police Collaboration
Over 2,000 mathematicians have signed a letter agreeing to boycott all collaboration with police, and insisting their colleagues do the same.
Beyond Prisons Podcast: Prison By Any Other Name Feat. Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law
We discuss the fundamental issues with reform & the co-optation of abolitionist demands, how electronic monitoring denies people’s basic needs while shifting the costs of incarceration from the government onto the individual, why community policing is anti-community, and more.
Beyond Prisons: Dylan Rodríguez, Part II: Police Accountability Is Casualty Management
This is the second part of Beyond Prisons’ two-part conversation with professor, author, and abolitionist scholar Dr. Dylan Rodríguez.
How Transformative Justice Responds To Violence Without The Carceral System
Abolitionists have confronted violence through Transformative Justice, which models different skills and principles for approaching harm and violence.
Community Organizers Address Sexual Violence Without The Criminal Justice System
Nicole Froio examines how some prison abolitionists are approaching gendered harm without the involvement of the criminal justice system.
Federal Asset Forfeiture May Undermine Efforts To Defund Police
Asset forfeiture is potentially a major obstacle to defunding police because the public lacks control over external revenue sources.
Democrats Push Reforms That Will Not Fundamentally Change Policing
Proposals for police reform by Democrats are distressingly similar to prior proposals that have done nothing to fundamentally change policing. In fact, the vast majority of provisions in legislation introduced in Congress were recommended by a task force convened by President Barack Obama five years ago.
