Policing

The Power of WE

Paul Boden | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Affordable Housing, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Social Services, Social Justice, Democrats, Public Housing, Civil Rights, Housing Crisis, Privatization, Homelessness, Policing, Homeless, Housing, Police, Community Organizing, Jail, Republicans, Business Improvement Districts, Federal Government, Public Goods, Corporate Control, Politics News
Paul Boden

Why wouldn't our government want the people being governed to be educated, healthy, well-housed and able to freely be in nature? Is it wrong to think that government should want these things for all people?

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New Study Shows Violence Costing America Over $460 Billion

Michael Shank | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Violence, Institute for Economics and Peace, Cambridge, Louisiana, Prison, Congress, US Peace Index, Arizona, Taxpayers, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Peace, Michigan, Maine, Wyoming, Policing, Homicides, Massachusetts, Detroit, Economy, Jail, Crime, Politics News
Michael Shank

The U.S. Peace Index is based on analysis of homicide, violent crime, policing, incarceration rates and availability of small arms data. With improvements in all five of these indicators from the 2011 to the 2012 USPI, the U.S. was found to be more peaceful than at any time since 1991.

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Bringing Florida to Justice, Not Just George Zimmerman

Michael Shank | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Florida, Institute for Economics and Peace, Louisiana, Violent Crime, Trayvon Martin, Inequality, US Peace Index, George Zimmerman, Nevada, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Racism, Policing, Homicide, George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Tennessee, Crime News
Michael Shank

A bigger question that must also be asked is "Who is Florida?" We could ask a question about the direction America is headed on race and violence but let's stick to Florida for a moment.

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No Fooling, National Day of Action for the Right to Exist: April 1st

Paul Boden | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Social Justice, Human Rights, Homelessness, Public Housing, Housing, Police, Homeless, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Policing, Civil Rights, Housing Crisis, Affordable Housing, Mental Illness, Social Services, Jail, Impact News
Paul Boden

We are building a movement to reclaim our communities for all members: not just those who set the rents. We must make clear the myriad of ways in which our community members are treated as though they are less than human.

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Who Should Police the Police?

Hector Villagra | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Sheriff Deputies, Inmate Abuse, Police, Policing, Scott Budnick, Lee Baca, Office of Independent Review, Gordon Grbavac, Sheriff Lee Baca, Lapd, Oir, Los Angeles News
Hector Villagra

Without an external and independent body overseeing the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, how can people be sure that it handles deputy misconduct properly? They can't.

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Berkeley Merchants Plot a Police Clampdown on Youth

Paul Boden | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Human Rights, Criminalization, Homelessness, Economy, Economic Crisis, Policing, Western Regional Advocacy Project, Business, Civil Rights, Politics News
Paul Boden

Across the nation, cities are responding to poverty and homelessness not by creating programs to enable people to survive these harsh times, but by persecuting the victims of an economic downturn of historic dimensions.

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A Modest Proposal to Eliminate the Public Option From Our Policing System

Alan Krinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police, Freedom, Policing, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Alan Krinsky

For too long in our nation, we have maintained a universal, single-payer policing system. As a freedom-loving citizen, I want to see policing return...

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