A New Estimate Of Killings By Police Is Way Higher — And Still Too Low
We still don’t know how many people the police kill in the U.S. annually. But we’re getting closer. In the past two months, the president and his attorney general have said they need better data on the...
View ArticleThat Higher Count Of Police Killings May Still Be 25 Percent Too Low
A few weeks ago I wrote about a government report that got us a little closer to knowing how many people the police kill in the U.S. each year. But it still left a lot of doubt as to the real number....
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How Baltimore’s Young Black Men Are Boxed In
At Freddie Gray’s funeral on Monday, before the riots that made headlines across the country, Pastor Jamal Bryant spoke of the limited opportunities for young black men in Baltimore and across the...
View ArticleTracking Police Violence A Year After Ferguson
Exactly how many people are killed by the police each year? This question has been asked with increasing urgency in the months since Michael Brown was killed by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer...
View ArticlePodcast: We Still Rely On Volunteers To Tally The Victims Of Police Violence
“How prevalent are police killings in America? Where are the places where there are hot spots of police violence? And where are the places that may be models for police being able to do their job...
View ArticleA Thanksgiving Travel Companion From What’s The Point
By Jody Avirgan More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS For this week’s What’s The Point, I’ve compiled excerpts of some of my favorite conversations so far. Is this a clip show? A rerun disguised as a...
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How To Predict Bad Cops In Chicago
Protests against police violence raged on in Chicago over the weekend, with some demonstrators demanding Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation over the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a police...
View ArticleWe Now Have Algorithms To Predict Police Misconduct
On a sweltering Monday in late June 2015, the city council in Charlotte, North Carolina, met to discuss, among other items in a seven-hour marathon, how to carry out a controversial new approach to...
View ArticlePolice Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock
UPDATE (Dec. 5, 11:30 a.m.): The Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that it had denied the permit Energy Transfer Partners needed to build a segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would have...
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