Tag: Police Militarization

During a drill, SWAT team members prepare to clear the ship Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, moments after boarding the Washington State ferry M.V. Salish, out of Bainbridge Island, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

2015 can be the year of criminal justice reform

Timothy Lynch · February 9, 2015 10:00 am

The casket of New York Police Department officer Rafael Ramos arrives to his wake at Christ Tabernacle Church in the Glendale section of Queens, where he was member, Friday in New York. (AP/John Minchillo)

780,000 good men and women in blue

Scott Rasmussen · December 27, 2014 10:00 am

Program to give military gear to cops caused controversy in 2014

Kelly Cohen · December 26, 2014 10:00 am

A police shield with a mourning band is displayed at a makeshift memorial near the site where New York City police officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday. (AP/Seth Wenig)

The more things change …

Noemie Emery · December 23, 2014 10:00 am

Bill de Blasio: ‘Put aside protests’

Brian Hughes · December 22, 2014 7:27 pm

Washington Secrets

It’s about racism: 95% of blacks say it’s serious

Paul Bedard · December 22, 2014 5:02 pm

Alleged New York shooter Ismaaiyl Brinsley.Â Photo: Facebook

Washington Secrets

Mark Levin: Did Holder’s ‘reckless broadsides’ against police lead to NYC cop killing?

Paul Bedard · December 21, 2014 2:36 pm

Washington Secrets

Mainstream Scream: Hands up from CNN panel backing Ferguson protesters

Paul Bedard · December 16, 2014 9:17 pm

Beltway Confidential

Amid racial tensions in NYC, a bungled message

Becket Adams · December 15, 2014 11:34 pm

Demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue toward Capitol Hill in Washington, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014, during the Justice for All rally. More than 10,000 protesters are converging on Washington in an effort to bring attention to the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police. Civil rights organizations are holding a march to the Capitol on Saturday with the families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, two unarmed black men who died in incidents with white police officers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Al Sharpton, families of killed black men lead ‘Justice for All’ march in Washington

Brian Hughes · December 13, 2014 8:00 pm

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Power corrupts, and sometimes an innocent man ends up dead

Timothy P. Carney · December 5, 2014 10:00 am

Obama on Eric Garner: ‘Not just a black problem’

Brian Hughes · December 3, 2014 10:41 pm