Tag Archives: racism in police

Reforming police departments

As I began this, I picked up an excellent Mother Jones article, “A Road Map for Getting Rid of Racist Cops,” about this deeply entrenched problem. It’s in the form of a Q&A — Q’s by Mother Jones journalist Samantha … Continue reading

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Cops: why they have problems with us and we with them

However, [Lennart Kollberg] couldn’t shake off the feeling that it was important to get hold of them [two witnesses] as quickly as possible. Why? It’s only the policeman’s occupational disease creeping up on you, he thought gloomily. A total wreck … Continue reading

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“Shielding Children From Talk of Ferguson and Garner”

Rachel L. Swarns is a New York Times columnist. She is also, apparently, a black woman. I say “apparently,” because I had no reason to know this until yesterday, when in her column The Working Life, she shared with us … Continue reading

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