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Jay-Z: "Every Step You Take, They Remind You, You Ghetto"

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Deval Patrick, Barack Obama, Police, Profiling, Henry Louis Gates, Harvard Professor Arrest, Sergeant Gates, Harvard, Race, Cambridge, Charles Ogletree, Grammy Awards, Politics News

The problem isn't so much what happened with Crowley and Gates. A greater problem is the divide between famous and easily identifiable people of color and those with no defense.

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Gatesgate: A lesson plan

Peter Y. Sussman | Posted 08.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Cambridge, Henry Louis Gates, Police, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Arrested, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, Politics News

These lessons are not a comprehensive list and they are not rules, but the kind of awareness they exemplify might have defused the tense Gates encounter.

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Gates-Crowley Battle Not About Race, but Rather Citizens' Rights

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Extremism, Rush Limbaugh, Cambridge, Fanaticism, Police, President Barack Obama, Massachusetts, Citizens' Rights, James Crowley, Race, Home Break-In, Politics, Sean Hannity, Racism, Glenn Beck, Henry Louis Gates, Health Care, Arrest, Politics News

When you look past the argument over race, you can see that a homeowner's rights were trampled on by the investigating and then arresting officer.

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The Gates/Crowley Rorschach Test

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gates, Police, Race Relations, Cambridge Police, James Crowley, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Race, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Politics News

Was this an instance of racial profiling? Did Gates overreact to a reasonable police request? The truth is that we simply do not have enough information to know what really happened in this case.

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White Police Officers and Black Men

George Mitrovich | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Police, Police Officers, Living News

No white person can ever know what it's like to be a person of color in America.

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Skip Is My Hero

Trey Ellis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard, Henry Louis Gates, Santa Monica, Police, Politics News

Although some have decried Professor Gates as overreacting, I know, from personal experience, that what he did was an act of courage.

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Gates Arrest Won't End Racial Profiling Denial

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harvard University, Police, Crime, Civil Rights, Racial Profiling, Cambridge Police, Henry Louis Gates, Politics News

The refusal to admit that racial profiling exists has done much to torpedo nearly every effort by civil rights groups to get law enforcement to address this troubling trend.

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Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Welcome to the New "Post-Racial" America

Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Obama, Harvard University, Post Racial America, Boston, Arrest, Police, Henry Louis Gates Jr. Henry Louis Gates Arrest, China, Black in America 2, Politics News

Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.

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Body Left On Long Island Street For Hours

AP | Posted 08.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Body on Ny Street, NY Police, Brentwood Ny, Brentwood Long Island, Ny Street and Body, Police, Crime, Body on the Street, New York News

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) -- Residents of a Long Island neighborhood are still reeling from a gruesome scene: a dead body left lying for up to eight hours...

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Summer Night Lights

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Snl, Los Angeles, Police, Urban Policy, Crime, Gangs, Gang Violence, Politics News

Last summer, our City came forward with a simple -- yet radical -- idea. For two months, we dared to challenge the conventional wisdom that gun violence and gang battles plague the summer months.

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Fort Worth Gay Bar Raid No Accident

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Stonewall was an expression of power and identity in the face of forced anonymity and oppression. The raid at Fort Worth is a different story altogether.

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Walking Manhattan -- Rules for the Road

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Avenues, Downtown, Manhattan, Traffick, Streets, Walking, Police, Bikes, Pedestrian, Cars, Crosstown, On Foot, Uptown, New York News

If you follow these rules, your chances of getting there are about as good as if you risked some other mode of ambulation.

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Gay Bar Raid In Texas Protested: Excessive Force Alleged

Associated Press | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Fort-Worth-Star-Telegram, Gay Rights, Fort Worth, Police, Police Brutality, Gay, Stonewall, Politics News

FORT WORTH (AP) -- Protesters upset with the way police conducted a raid on a gay nightclub rallied in downtown Fort Worth. Seven people were arreste...

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Law Enforcement Steel Cage Match: Ray Kelly Vs. Bill Bratton

Len Levitt | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York

Read More: William Bratton, Nypd, New York, Ray Kelly, Police, New York City, Los Angeles, Police Chief, Lapd, New York News

In modern America's longest undeclared law enforcement feud, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton has recently one-upped NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly.

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L.A. Sheriffs To Use Electric Mini Coopers

gas2.org | Written by Jerry James Stone | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Police, L.A., Electric Cars, Environment, Green, Bmw, Sheriffs, Mini Cooper, Green Living, Los Angeles, Cops, Green News

LA County Sheriffs stuck driving Crown Vics are about to be left feeling tragically un-hip. Their Board of Sups just approved a deal with BMW to lease...

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Traffic Free Times Square Is A Half-Baked Concept

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 07.22.2009 | New York

Read More: Bloomberg, Manhattan, Herald Square, Automobiles, 34th Street, Police, Bikes, New York City, Greeley Square, Pedicabs, Cars, Times Square, Au Bon Pain, New York News

Last February Manhattan was apprised of an incipient revolution. Cars and trucks would no longer be welcome in Times Square and on a small stretch of ...

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Why Palestinians Were So Quick To Reject Netanyahu's Speech

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bush Palestinian State, Judges, Police, Olympics, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Oslo, World News

Imagine if in the past fifteen years you have been allowed all the trappings of a state. Since 1996 you have been allowed to field an Olympic team. That you have an elected parliament and an elected president.

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Ohio Man In Women's Swimsuit Harassed Girls: Police

AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

Read More: Kevin L. Miller, Police, Dayton, Ohio, Public Indecency, Cops, Home News

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Sara Jane Moore's Interview Fallout

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

If you were standing on that sidewalk next to Moore when she was 45 years old, would you have expected her to pull a gun from her purse, aim and pull the trigger at the head of the U.S. President?

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Bulletproof Turbans Sought By British Sikh Police

guardian.co.uk | Vikram Dodd | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Sikh, Religion, Sikh Religion, British Police Sikh Association, Crime, Police, Sikh Police Bulletproof Turbans, Sikh Police, Bulletproof Turbans, Bullet-Proof Turbans, World News

Sikh police officers want special bulletproof turbans to be developed so they can serve in firearms units, according to the new British Police Sikh As...

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Police Officers Arraigned On Charges Of Raping Drunken Woman

The New York Times | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert-Morgenthau, Police Officers Are Arraigned on Charges of Raping Drunken Woman, New York Police, Police Officers Arraigned, Police, New York Police Department, Police Officers Arraigned on Charges of Raping Drunken Woman, Politics News

A New York City police officer accused of raping an intoxicated woman after helping her home "had sexual intercourse with the physically helpless vict...

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"Kettling": Another "Special Relationship" Between the US and UK

Charles Shaw | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police, Protest, RNC 2004, Activism, Civil Rights, g20, Republican National Convention, Detainees, Detained, Arrested, Politics News

The policy of mass arresting and detaining protesters was deliberate and premeditated. The intention was to disrupt, discourage, and, ultimately, disperse the protest presence from the streets by creating a climate of fear.

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420: Thoughts on Pot vs. Alcohol from a Former Police Chief

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: 4/20, Overdose Deaths, Pot Holiday, Marijuana, Police, 420, Pot, War on Drugs, Marijuana Health Effects, 20th, Weed, Prohibition, Leap, Marijuana Holiday, 4-20, Alcohol, National Pot Smoking Day, Legalize Marijuana, 4:20, Legalization, April 20, Happy 420, Norm Stamper, Politics News

If one of these two drugs is implicated in dire health effects, high mortality rates, and physical violence -- and the other is not -- what are we to make of our nation's marijuana laws?

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British Police Officer Suspended For Man Who Died After G-20 Protests (Video)

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.10.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Police, United Kingdom, Ladanian Tomlinson, Ian Tomlinson, G-20 Protests, England, Police Brutality, g20, G20 Protests, G-20, Bob Quick, Bob Quick Resigns, Bob Quick Documents, Bob Quick and Gordon Brown, London-United Kingdom, World News

A British police officer who came forward as being involved in the case of Ian Tomlinson -- a newspaper salesman who died of a heart attack during the...

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