- Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
- American Blowback
Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- Are the police doing their job?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
It makes no sense to demand that the police 'do their job.' The job of the police is to protect the wealth and power of the ruling elite against any challenge.
- Canada more at risk from environmentalists than religiously inspired terrorists: RCMP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Recent RCMP report warns that Canada's energy sector is more at risk from domestic environmental extremists than from religiously inspired terrorist organizations like Al Qaida and ISIS.
- Canada's Creeping Police State
Capitalist Repression and War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Conservative Harper government’s Bill C-51, the "Anti-Terrorism Act 2015," is a sweeping attack on free speech and other civil liberties. The bill targets publications, web postings and even private conversations sympathetic to causes that the capitalist rulers deem to be "terrorism." It authorizes the CSIS secret police to go after any activity that "undermines the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of Canada" or interferes with the country's "economic or financial stability." And you don't have to actually do anything; the bill provides for "preventive detention" of individuals who the police claim "may commit" an offense.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Charged with murder, but they didn’t kill anyone -- police did
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A Reader investigation found ten cases since 2011 where police killed a civilian in Chicago and charged an accomplice with the murder.
- Michael C. Chettleburgh
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- CIJ Convention - Police Sources
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
- Edits to Wikipedia Pages on Bell, Garner, Diallo Traces to 1 Police Plaza
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Wikipedia content can be freely changed by anyone. Unfortunately, this also seems to mean that Wikipedia can be freely censored. A police department is under investigation for altering pages related to cases of police brutality which they were involved with.
- The end of carding?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Ontario government has announced that it intends to bring in regulations to stop the police practice of stopping people at random and demanding their information. Of course this form of harassment, known as "carding" in Ontario, is far from random: everyone knows who is likely to be stopped, and what the colour of their skin is likely to be.
- Failing the Trump Test: Cops for Fascism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Donald Trump just picked up his latest big endorsement: from the New England Policeman’s Benevolent Association, “the fastest-growing law enforcement organization in the northeastern United States” (according to the NEPBA’s website). Addressing the group in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, last Thursday, Trump told his audience that their support represented the most important honor he could possibly receive.
- Flaunting It!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
- Gestapo
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Guidelines for police in dealing with mentally ill people
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An investigative report report by the CBC shows that more than 460 people in Canada have "died in encounters with police" since the year 2000.
- The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
- How "Hate Crimes Against Police" Expose the Fatal Flaw Within Hate Crime Statutes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Hate crime legislation lent legitimacy to a 40-year carceral program that has wrought immense damage on communities of colour. In an ironic twist, the police - who've been the main enforcers of this program - now want to invoke these laws for their protection.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Is It Bullying? Is It Harassment? Is It Abuse Of Authority Or Is It Effective Management Designed To Get A Difficult Job Done?
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
So has Mr. Elliott created or contributed to a negative and toxic atmosphere in the RCMP? Or is he getting the job he was hired to do done # but rattling a few chains by stirring up a hornets nest in the establishment? It's a tough question.
- Israel's new police chief emerges from shadowy world
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Palestinian minority in Israel worried by top cop's twin-track as interrogator for secret police and hardline settler.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- The KKK Has Infiltrated U.S. Police Departments for Decades
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
During the Civil Rights movement, one of the KKK’s first orders was to infiltrate police departments around the country.
- The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A call to white Americans to unite with suppressed minorities who are incarcerated daily, killed in the streets, and who hold little political power against these militarized police forces.
- 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.
- Life Sentence
Stories from four decades of court reporting - or, how I fell out of love with the Canadian justice system (especially judges)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
Through an examination of notable trials she has covered, Chrisitie Blatchford makes the case that Canada's judicial system is out of control and often inept. Judges, she says, are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled, while lawyers are often self-satisfied and contemptuous of anyone who is not a member of the club.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- No Unity of the Police and the Community is Possible or Desirable
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
After the police murders of Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Philando Castile, 32, of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are asked to embrace the police, to form a partnership, to work together. From President Barack Obama on down, Democratic and Republican party politicians have called upon the police and communities to unite to solve our common problems.
- NYC Cop Backlash
Amid Protests Against Racist Police Terror
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Weeks of mass protests that erupted after the policemen who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner got off have left cops across the country seething. These hired guns of the capitalist rulers are howling over any criticism of how they do their job, which in racist capitalist America does include terrorizing and killing unarmed black people. Leading the pack in New York City are the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) and its ilk, which have seized on the December 20, 2014 killing of two Brooklyn cops to further push their agenda of bonapartism: that is, to stand above the law as judge, jury and executioner.
- Old New York Police Surveillance Is Found, Forcing Big Brother Out of Hiding
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, police surveillance of political organizations in New York was extensive enough to require more than half a million index cards, simply to catalog and cross-reference the many dossiers. But over the ensuing decades, the dossiers themselves were presumed missing or lost. Police Department lawyers said they had no idea where the files had gone.
Now, a significant portion of the missing files have been discovered during what the city said on Thursday was a routine inventory of a Queens warehouse, where archivists found 520 brown boxes of decades-old files, believed to be the largest trove of New York Police Department surveillance records from the era.
- On the Nature of Police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Having a group of reluctant citizens charged with the enormous responsibility that came with being a cop was preferable.
- One Group Has a Higher Domestic Violence Rate Than Everyone Else - And It's Not the NFL
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In families of police officers, domestic violence is two-to-four times more likely than in the general population -- from stalking and harassment to sexual assault and even homicide.
- Only 100 cyclists...
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A news article reports that a woman riding her bicycle was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver in Halton, a regional municipality west of Toronto. But, hey, no big deal.
- Origins of the police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Examining the creation of the first police forces, which took place in England and the US in just a few decades in the mid-19th century. And explaining that they were not brought into being to prevent crime or protect the public, but primarily to control crowds: the working class, white and black.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
Arms Trade
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
- Police
Urban Policing in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
Policing is crucial to society. In the public's mind, police stand for law and order, protecting the law-abiding from the law-breaker. But what does the police officer on the beat actually do? Does the public idea of policing fit the reality?
- The Police and the 1918-19 German Revolution
A Correction to Our Militant Labour Pamphlet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
After the SPD took the helm of the government, Emil Eichhorn, a member of the left wing of the USPD, became the Berlin chief of police, acting on the false view that this arm of the bourgeois state could be transformed into a revolutionary instrument. On 4 January 1919, the Prussian Ministry of the Interior dismissed Eichhorn in a deliberate provocation.
- The police are not here to protect you
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
It is a liberal fantasy that policing exist to protect us from the bad guys, rather it serves more to manage and suppress those on the losing end of economic and political arrangements.
- Police in Canada
The Real Story
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion.
- Police - Prisons: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
- Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if approached by the police on the street with the demand that one respond. That would constitute being "uncooperative." Neither does one have the right to protect one's property from the police.
- 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.
- Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
- 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.
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- Reflexions sur le role de l'Etat et de la Police Series: On Vous a a l'Oeil
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Spy Wars
Espionage and Canada from Gouzenko to Glasnost
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A survey history of Canad'as "secret" history.
- The Strikebreakers Go on Strike... Police Militancy vs. Labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
The article excerpted here explains the reactionary and anti-labor nature of the 1971 New York City patrolmen's strike and of the police themselves. The article is reprinted from Workers’ Action (No. 8, April-May 1971), precursor of Workers Vanguard.
- Teamsters and Cops
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
- Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House
Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surprises on them, particularly surprises that sabotage their own tactics -- and chase away the real diversity of the movement.
- Toronto Police Constable shot and killed in Cabbagetown - 1973
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
In January 10 1973. 28 year-old Toronto Police Constable James Lothian spotted a speeding vehicle running a red light and pursued it until the car ran into the rear of another vehicle on Amelia Street near Rawlings Avenue. After leaving his cruiser, Constable Lothian was shot and wounded by one of the occupants of the vehicle, David Brian (Duke) Holmes. Lothian later died in hospital.
- Toronto's Finest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1981
Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
- Two justice systems?
Letter to the editor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
It seems that we have two justice systems: one for the police, and one for the rest of us.
- Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
- Watch Your Back: Chicago Police Bosses Targeted Cops Who Exposed Corruption
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
After Chicago police officers Shannon Spalding and Danny Echeverria filed a whistleblower lawsuit, retaliation against them only intensified.
- The Whack 'Em and Stack 'Em Mentality of American Cops
Killers on the Road
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Killings by police are not a negligible proportion of the United States' firearms death toll. The public apprehension that cops are often borderline psychotic, hair-trigger-ready to open fire on the slightest pretext, virtually immune from serious sanction, is growing apace, fueled by such incidents as the dog slaughter on an interstate.
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Whose problem?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Regarding interactions between the police and mentally ill.
- Whose Streets? Their Streets
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
If people don’t believe that the police in America are the greatest threat to civil society then they've been asleep for years, and comatose just this week. Or they're white, privileged and/or accepting of brutality against their own fellow citizens.
- With My Heart in Yambo
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
Twenty-four years ago director Fernanda Restrepo's two teenage brothers disappeared. A year later, the family finally learned the worst possible news: the brothers had been kidnapped, tortured and murdered by the Ecuadorean police, and then dumped. Restrepo embarks on the painful journey of recounting her family’s story, and documents yet one more search in Lake Yambo, where the boys’ bodies were dumped.
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