Police Violence Against the Black Community and the Failures of the Criminal Legal System

“Metro Board Votes To Establish Investigations Review Panel For Transit Police,” DCist – 6.23.20
“Metro Board To Vote On Creation Of Review Panel For Transit Police,” DCist – 6.22.20
“Metro Board to Vote Tuesday on Creation of Transit Police Review Panel,” Washington Post – 6.22.20
“Above the Law: Why Police Almost Never Get Convicted,” Complex World – 6.18.20
“Crossroads,” WPFW 89.3 – 6.16.20 10am
“If I Go to a Protest, What Kinds of Personal Information Might Police Collect About Me?” The Markup 6.16.2020
“Monday Morning QB,” WPFW 89.3 – 6.15.20 11:30am
“Capitol Police, a Department Shrouded in Secrecy,” Roll Call – 6.15.20
“Police Reforms Quickly Take Hold Across America. It’s Only Just Getting Started,” CNN – 6.14.20
“Protesters Say Police Exposed Them to Coronavirus Risk,” The Financial Times – 6.12.20
“Metro Pledges to Address Systemic Racism, Including Allegations of Biased Enforcement By Transit Police,” The Washington Post – 6.11.20
“COVID-19 Raises Concerns About DC Inmates in Federal Prison Hot Spots,” NBC4 Washington – 6.9.20
“Nation’s Largest Police Union Says It Doesn’t ‘Want To Protect Bad Cops’ As Calls For Reform Mount,” USA Today – 6.9.20
“Two Years After Her Son Was Shot By D.C. Police, A Mother Hopes Reforms Bring Answers,” Washington Post – 6.9.20
“Community Watch and Comment: Can the Police Be Reformed?,” WPFW 89.3 – 6.9.20 11am
“Police Unions Dig as Calls for Reform Grow,” NewsDio – 6.8.20
“‘Diminished to the Point of Extinction:’ Trump DOJ’s Retreat from Police Investigations Draws New Scrutiny,” – The National Law Journal – 6.8.20
“Police Unions Strongly Resist Reform Measures,” The Crime Report – 6.8.20
“Trump’s Scrapping of Obama-Era Reforms Hinders Police Reform,” The Guardian – 6.7.20
“How Police Unions Became Such Powerful Opponents to Reform Efforts,” The New York Times – 6.6.20
“Public Health Experts’ Shift from Social Distancing to Social Justice,” Politico – 6.5.20
“What is Kettling?” GQ – 6.5.20
“These DC Lawyers and Legal Groups Are Offering Free Help to Protesters,” Washingtonian – 6.5.20
“Mass Arrests Jeopardizing The Health Of Protesters, Police,” Politico – 6.4.20
“Police Arrest Tactics At Protests Add To Virus Risk,” Politico – 6.4.20
“‘This Is a Moment’: Civil Rights Lawyers Confront Pandemic and Police Violence Inequities,” The National Law Journal – 6.4.20
“The Movement To Defund D.C. Police,” Washington City Paper – 6.4.20
“Should Police Reform Start with Union Contracts?” Newsy – 6.3.2020
“DOJ Announces More Investigations Into Several Police-Involved Deaths,” Fusion/UNews – 6.2.20
“Why Are So Few Police Officers Prosecuted in the US?” BBC Newsday – 6.1.20
“There’s One Big Reason Why Police Brutality Is So Common In The US. And That’s The Police Unions,” BuzzFeed News – 6.1.20
“As Rage Over Killings of Black Americans Sweeps Nation, DOJ Has All But Abandoned Broad Police Investigations,” CNN Politics – 6.1.20
“It Took Four Days To Arrest The Officer Who Used A Knee Chokehold On George Floyd. Delays Are Built Into Investigations Against Cops,” BuzzFeed News – 5.29.20
“‘An Enormous Red Flag’: After George Floyd’s Death, Some Call For A Broader Federal Investigation,” USA Today – 5.29.20


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