List: Policing and Criminal Justice | Curated by Tim Wise

Jan 9, 2023
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Policing and Criminal JusticeEssays about racism in policing and the justice system, including pieces related to BLM
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Sorry, Restorative Justice Doesn’t Work With FascistsWith apologies to my compatriots on the left, for some folks, only prison will do
Jan 9, 2023
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Jan 9, 2023
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Oops, Your Denial of Systemic Racism Sorta Proves Systemic RacismThose who rationalize racial disparities often provide evidence for the very thing they deny
Sep 4, 2022
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Sep 4, 2022
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Merrick Garland isn’t J. Edgar Hoover and Trump isn’t Fred HamptonThe history of the FBI and the Justice Department doesn’t mean they’re always the bad guys
Aug 15, 2022
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Aug 15, 2022
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Why Are Folks Shocked When Crime Happens in Small Towns?Did y’all not read In Cold Blood? Don’t you have the ID channel?Or is it racism that makes you think it “doesn’t happen here?”
Aug 6, 2022
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Aug 6, 2022
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3 Reasons Stop-and-Frisk is Still Wrong, Despite Rising Crime RatesIt’s racist, it doesn’t work, and it can endanger public safety
Jul 27, 2022
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Jul 27, 2022
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AfroSapiophile
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So, Being Armed Makes it OK for Police to Shoot You?Hmmm, what happened to that Second Amendment thing?
Feb 1, 2022
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Feb 1, 2022
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AfroSapiophile
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Yeah, No, That Study Doesn’t Debunk Police RacismSloppy social science and the mental gymnastics of racism deniers
Dec 31, 2021
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Dec 31, 2021
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Racists Must be Purged From the Military and PolicingIt’s not a free speech issue — remove them now
Dec 27, 2021
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Dec 27, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Gambled and Lost, But the Game Remains RiggedSelf-defense is for white folks because anti-Blackness is a reflex
Nov 26, 2021
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Nov 26, 2021
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America Taught Kyle Rittenhouse WellWhite men are empowered to play law enforcer — Rittenhouse and those celebrating him got the same systemic memo
Nov 22, 2021
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Nov 22, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Too Violent to Arrest? Sounds About White
Sep 6, 2021
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Sep 6, 2021
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AfroSapiophile
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Tim Wise
Stop Misusing Data to Justify Police ShootingsClaims that Black folks were armed when shot by cops aren’t as meaningful as you think
Aug 17, 2021
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Aug 17, 2021
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Performative Rage is Not ActivismSlogans like A.C.A.B. personalize a systemic problem — and that makes change harder
Apr 28, 2021
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Apr 28, 2021
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Our Human Family
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Tim Wise
Derek Chauvin Is Not a VictimThe trial was fair, and right-wing claims of jury intimidation are absurd and dangerous
Apr 27, 2021
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Apr 27, 2021
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Age of Awareness
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Tim Wise
Justice for One is Not Justice for AllThe Chauvin verdict is worth celebrating but not evidence that the system works
Apr 21, 2021
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Apr 21, 2021
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Why De-Policing Isn’t as Crazy as It SoundsThe cops aren’t as helpful as you may think
Jun 21, 2020
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Jun 21, 2020
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Nobody’s Perfect — So Why Do We Need Black People to Be?Demanding angelic victims of police violence is absurd and racist
Jun 18, 2020
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Jun 18, 2020
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James Baldwin Saw This ComingAmerica’s bill has come due. It was only a matter of time
Jun 13, 2020
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Jun 13, 2020
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Human Parts
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Tim Wise
The Irony of Lecturing Protesters About NonviolenceTo paraphrase Tupac, white folks love to scream peace after we start some shit
Jun 12, 2020
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Jun 12, 2020
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Opposition to Protest is Not About ViolenceSome white folks don’t want peace — they just want quiet
Jun 10, 2020
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Jun 10, 2020
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