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AI offers police illusion of safety

Nicholas Liu
PORTLAND, OR - JULY 30: A journalist runs past federal officers after he was caught behind a police line during a protest against racial injustice and police brutality in front of the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the early hours of July 30, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Protests against the federal presence in Portland continued Wednesday following an announcement by Governor Kate Brown that federal officers would begin a phased withdrawal from the city. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Mainstream media built the police myth

Nicholas Liu
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 11: Border Patrol agents are confronted by activists after making an apprehension on January 11, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Trump administration has sent an estimated 2,000 federal agents into the area as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

ICE steps up war on accountability

Nicholas Liu
Members of the DEA in White Plains, New York on April 24, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA abandoning body cam program

Mario Ariza - ProPublica
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Police car speeding through traffic at night time (Getty Images/TheaDesign)

When police shootings don’t kill

Rod McCullom - Undark
Power (Courtesy of Netflix)

Policing doc refutes "bad apples" theory

Melanie McFarland
NYPD police officers watch demonstrators in Times Square on June 1, 2020, during a "Black Lives Matter" protest. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

How the system shapes "bad apple" cops

D. Watkins
Herbert Reul (2nd from left, CDU), Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, controls the robot Hund Spot from Boston Dynamics at the opening of the police's new "Innovation Lab" at the Digitalkontor. (Rolf Vennenbernd/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Robot police dogs are on patrol

Rod McCullom - Undark
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Community organizer Rod Adams speaks amongst crowd of protesters at Minneapolis City Hall in "Sound of the Police" (Hulu/ABC News Studios)

Cops "have your life in their hands"

Gary M. Kramer
A makeshift memorial for environmental activist Manuel Teran, who was deadly assaulted by law enforcement during a raid to clear the construction site of a police training facility that activists have nicknamed "Cop City" near Atlanta, Georgia on February 6, 2023. (CHENEY ORR/AFP via Getty Images)

The 'Cop City' protests, explained

Areeba Shah
Police officers in Virginia held an Army officer at gunpoint and pepper-sprayed him (CBS)

Driving while Black and in the Army

Jon Skolnik
Male police officer using his laptop while out on patrol (Getty Images)

Big Tech is selling bad tech to cops

Kristina Libby
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Riot police blocking the entrance to I-195 during the demonstration (Adam DelGiudice/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Police are a public health crisis

Helene Alafriz
Cropped shot of a young male police officer using his cellphone while out on patrol (Getty Images)

Meet the copfluencers of TikTok

Serena Tara
An Oakland Police officer walks by patrol cars at the Oakland Police headquarters (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Oakland schools abolish police force

Nicole Karlis
Two officers of the New York Police Department escort a handcuffed woman under arrest to the Emergency Room at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens borough of New York City (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)

Surveillance: A side effect of COVID-19

Mary Steffenhagen
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Michael Bloomberg (Getty Images/Salon)

Bloomberg, racist policing and the NYT

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch
Candace Owens and Matt Gaetz (Getty Images/Zach Gibson)

GOP in Congress: Still trollin'

Sophia Tesfaye
(AP/Getty/Salon)

We're not the good guys

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com
President Donald Trump speaks about H. R. 5682, the "First Step Act" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, which would reform America's prison system. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Reform bill stalls despite Trump support

Rachel Leah
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Wyatt Cenac in Cincinnati on "Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas" (HBO/Anne Marie Fox)

Let's talk: Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas

Melanie McFarland
Jeff Sessions; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Photo montage by Salon)

Trump trauma and Jim Crow

Kali Holloway - Alternet
FILE – This April 10, 2015, file photo shows the car driven by Timothy Russell, killed along with Malissa Williams in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire on Nov. 29, 2012, in Cleveland. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, April 13, 2017, that a judge in Cleveland, where two unarmed blacks died in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire on Nov. 29, 2012, can hear dereliction of duty charges against five police supervisors accused of failing to control a high-speed chase involving more than 100 officers. (AP Photo/Aaron Josefczyk, Pool, File) (AP)

Police shoot more people than we thought

Kali Holloway - Alternet
Robots, produced by Knightscope, are intended to assist in crime prevention and law enforcement. (Getty/Rob Lever)

Robo-cops harass homeless S.F. residents

Jarrett Lyons
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