How To Talk To Your Kids About Their Rights If They’re Ever Stopped By The Police
Here’s how to talk to your children about their rights, how to show respect to the police, and the hard truth that officers sometimes abuse their power.
Police Shouldn’t React Harshly To Moms Who Won’t Put Down Their Babies
If police responses are ‘determined by the totality of the circumstances,’ then a pregnant woman holding a baby, having just come from the Dollar Store, shouldn’t be considered a threat.
If Police Really Put American Lives Ahead Of Their Own, They’d Hurt Fewer People
Police are not supposed to make sure they get home at any cost, they’re supposed to make sure that we do.
How Republicans Can Switch From Offending Minority Voters To Wooing Them
With the absence of Republicans willing to put effort into changing hearts and minds, Democrats have been able to define them unfairly to an entire generation of young people and minorities.
Why Aren’t Any NFL Players Kneeling Over This Pennsylvania Cop Shooting?
No NFL players kneeled on Sunday to protest the brutality that occurred to Brian Shaw. Is that because he’s a police officer?
5 Problems With The NFL’s National Anthem Protest
For many people, these national anthem knees simply come off like people being jerks about the national anthem because they don’t like President Trump.
There’s No Evidence To Back Michael Bennett’s Claim Police Roughed Him Up Because He’s Black
Once Michael Bennett shared his story, the Las Vegas Police Department began an investigation, and the meager results so far contradict Bennett’s story.
Harvey Is Restoring The Faith Of A Nation Scarred By First Responders Who Abuse Their Power
What do we do when men trained to be sheepdogs, who look and dress like sheepdogs, turn into wolves before our very eyes? What do we say when the sheepdog turns on the sheep?
One Year After Philando Castile’s Death, 4 Black Christian Leaders Share Why It Still Haunts Them
Black voices from across America offer their views on this tragedy, and what we can learn as we share in the family’s grief.
The Police Video Of Philando Castile’s Death Confirms He Didn’t Have To Die
Merely stating that one has a weapon in the absence of any real indicator of danger is not a crime in a country that guarantees its citizens the right to bear arms.
The Acquittal Verdict In The Philando Castile Case Is An Abomination
There was no good reason for Jeronimo Yanez to have opened fire upon Philando Castile. He had no indication that there was any reason to do so.
This One Simple Change To Traffic Laws Can Reduce Police Brutality
Improvements like body cameras and independent police auditors are steps in the right direction, but none of those reforms gets at the source of the problem, which is our criminal traffic laws.
If College Students Will Protest Mike Huckabee, They’ll Protest Anybody
If people choose to protest with as light a provocation as someone such as Mike Huckabee provides, then life will become miserably dominated by political ideology.
Poll Finds Americans Are Not As Divided On Policing As Headlines Suggest
Despite racial disagreement on the way police interact with their communities, no demographic is ‘anti-cop’—and a majority agrees on needed reforms.
Listen To Black Lives Matter Supporters, Don’t Dismiss Them With Abortion Stats
If we want members of the Black Lives Matter movement to listen to our concerns about abortion, we must listen to theirs on police brutality.
A Former Cop Takes On ‘The War On Cops’
Is Heather Mac Donald’s book ‘The War on Cops’ a corrective to Black Lives Matter rhetoric or just more hyperbole in defense of overzealous law enforcement?
How We Can Make Milwaukee’s Race Riots The Last
There may still be time to head off violence on a level of Watts, Rodney King, or the Holy Week uprisings of 1968. Any viable solution to the problem must involve greater accountability from everyone.
What Police Say About Our Public Safety Crisis
In the context of concerns about police brutality and growing mental health problems in our society, police officers discuss weak points in our social safety nets.
How To Explain Cop Killers To Kids
A little girl I know has learned there are people who have never even met her father but who want to take his life and the lives of other police officers.
Can’t We Just Mourn The Police Instead Of Exploiting Their Deaths?
Our town’s commemoration of the Orlando terrorist attacks was well-attended, self-congratulatory, even festive. Its memorial for slain police officers was sparse and ambivalent.
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