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"We live in a society that is built around policing, where it is offered as a one-size-fits-all solution for every social problem: be it poverty, mental health, a lack of opportunity, or inadequate after school or sports programs-just send in the police, and if that doesn't work, send in some more. As the movement for Black Lives attested, policing and its racist consequences extend outward, informing the conditions under which we live and work, how...
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The former federal prosecutor and founder of Justice Innovation Lab tells the story of his struggle to unravel the cover-up of a police shooting, and subsequent incineration of the shooting victim, in Hurricane Katrina-era New Orleans. In 2009, Jared Fishman was a young prosecutor working on low-level civil rights cases in the Justice Department when a file landed on his desk. That folder contained two items: a story from The Nation magazine examining...
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"A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for change. The events of that day are now tragically familiar:...
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