A protester holds an Abolish the Police banner in Irving Square Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) This article is a response to “Community Control Won’t Fix ...

This article is a response to “To Transform Policing, We Need Community Control” by Jazmine Salas. Centuries of attempts to “correct” or “reform” paramilitary policing have not changed the fact that ...

In 2018, Oakland enacted an innovative law giving citizens a voice in police use of surveillance technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation called it “the new gold standard in community control of ...

ANNAPOLIS. TO GAIN LOCAL CONTROL. OVER THE CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. DEBORAH: YOU MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT THE STATE CURRENTLY RUNS THE AGENCY. >> THE BALTIMORE POLICE APARTMENT BECAME A STATE AGENCY AFTER ...

AFTER TODAY, RIGHT? SO TODAY WAS ABOUT CHANGING THE CITY CODE TO INCLUDE AN OUTLINE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HOW IT FUNCTIONS AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. MAYOR BRANDON SCOTT, MEMBERS OF THE CITY ...

The residents of Baltimore have waited 163 years to take back control of their city police department. Now, they may wait at least one more. The city’s Local Control Advisory Board, the group that ...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to extend his administration’s takeover of Washington D.C.’s police force past the 30 days he’s initially been granted—but the president will need ...