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- Absurd charges brought against reporters covering Occupy Wall Street movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Journalists covering the Occupy Wall Street movement’s protests and marches are not only exposed to police brutality but also to a sort of judicial lottery when detained. The situation varies from state to state, according to local laws, but the freedom to report news and information is being violated almost everywhere, not only for professional journalists but also for bloggers and for activists who want to cover the protests themselves.
- Banks Are "Where the Money Is" In The Drug War
Big Lenders Face Few Hard Consequences for Violating Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Man of the largest banks in the world have been accused of failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws — thereby enabling, collectively, hundreds of billions of dollars worth of suspicious transactions to move through the banking system absent adequate monitoring or oversight.
- Convicts, Collateral Damage, and the "War on Drugs"
The Real Crime is the War Itself
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those smuggle drugs across the international boundary between the two countries. But more importantly what they do is highlight how the ludicrous “war on drugs” produces casualties of many sorts.
- Do Indian Lives Matter? Police Violence Against Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
With all our talk about police violence aimed at poor and minority communities, we have yet to talk about the group most likely to be killed by law enforcement: Native Americans.
Native American men are incarcerated at four times the rate of white men and Native American women are sent to prison at six times the rate of white women.
- The Drugs Myth
Why the Drug Wars Must Stop
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Coleman presents medical evidence that the most dangerous and life-threatening drugs are legal, while the banned drugs are comparatively harmless.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Guantanamo North
Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
- Law Enforcement & Corrections Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to law enforcement and corrections in the Sources directory for the media.
- Manual respecting the Authority and Duties of Peace Officers in Relation to arrest and pre-trial rel
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
- The Other Police State
Private Cops vs. the Public Good
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
A revealing study on "Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits" written by Gary Ruskin confirms one’s worst suspicions about the ever-expanding two-headed U.S. security state. It details how some companies use the security apparatus, including questionable espionage tactics, against anyone who challenges their authority.
- The People's Police Commission
Trial By Amateur Video
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Now we have a people’s police commission of our own. It’s called amateur video. And it will do to criminal scum like Lt. Pike what a whole world of police commissions, pretending to act on our behalf, couldn’t.
- The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
- The police vs. the law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
One of the main differences between a democratic society and a police state is that in a democracy, the police are supposed to obey the law. In a police state, they don't.
- The RCMP vs. the People
Inside Canada's Security Service
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
An examination of the RCMP's Security Service and its abuses of power.
- The Return of the Albuquerque Death Squads
Police War on the Poor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
APD is at war with the poor because it has come to equate any expression of poverty or drug addiction not as an effect of structural inequality, but rather as another opportunity to dispose of what its officers call “human waste.” Like elsewhere being poor, suffering from a mentally illness or battling a drug addiction is a crime.
- State Law Breakers
Violating the Law While Enforcing the Law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Police routinely break the law under the pretext of enforcing the law.
- The Swing of That Truncheon Thing
The Nature of the Beast Revealed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Historically, police violence is a fact of life in every society. In a society based on a capitalist economy, the police serve those that have the most money and property. When the authorities and their policies are under attack, the police will always be called in to protect them. No one should be shocked when the police act brutally. There is a reason the most thuggish of the uniforms are often the ones called to disperse angry crowds.
- Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- What is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it? A kindergarten teacher is nonviolent when she puts a vase of fresh flowers on her desk and smiles at her little students, right? A young man who publicly refuses to be drafted during an invasion of another country is nonviolent, certainly. How about an old man who writes a letter to the editor arguing for peace on Earth?
- Why Not Jail?
Industrial Catastrophes, Corporate Malfeasance, and Government Inaction
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Analyzes five industrial catastrophes that have killed or sickened consumers and workers or caused irrevocable harm to the environment. Steinzor recommends innovative interpretations of existing laws to elevate the prosecution of white-collar crime at the federal and state levels.
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
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