1. 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.
2. American Blowback
   Cop-on-Cop Crime in LA
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   
3. Anti-Capitalist Demonstration of May 1, 2013 in Montreal
   Journée des Travailleurs et Travailleuses: Manifestation Anti-Capitaliste
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2013
   Montreal 2013: police state. Montreal's municipal goverment passes a bylaw that suspends the right of citizens to assemble unless they have received advance permission from police. Citizens who assert their right to assembly are kettled by police and arrested.
4. 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.
5. A Camera on Every Cop
   Taser International cashes in on police misconduct
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   On December 1, 2014, after several months of protests against police brutality that began with the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, President Obama pledged $75 million in federal funds to help purchase 50,000 police body cameras.
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
7. Cointelpro
   The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1976
   The first in-depth look at the covert and illegal FBI counterintelligence program - code-name COINTELPRO.
8. COINTELPRO
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
9. Connexions
   Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1980
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
11. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
12. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
13. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
15. Cops Are Now Less Cautious Than Soldiers In Iraq
    Shooting Mirian Carey
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Police militarization is a hot topic lately, but American police are beyond anything contemplated by the American military. American police today appear unwilling to accept any risk whatsoever and seem willing to kill anyone and anything that could possibly be seen as a threat.
16. "Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a terrified family of four, including an infant. As the family members were pulled outside, Atkinson's camera captured a scene that plays out with startling regularity in cities and towns across the country, one of many included in his new documentary, "Do Not Resist," an examination of police militarization in the United States.
17. Drug War Winners and Losers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
18. Even the FBI Agrees: When Undercover Agents Pose as Journalists, It Hurts Real Journalists' Work
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The FBI doesn't want the public to know more about how its agents pose as journalists during undercover investigations.The government acknowledged in a court filing that FBI agents who pretend to be journalists create a chilling effect, making it harder for real journalists to gain trust and cooperation from sources.
19. Flaunting It!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    An anthology of articles spanning the first decade of the Canadian gay liberation periodical, The Body Politic.
20. Florida Sheriff Tells Drivers to Run over Street Protesters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Sheriff of Florida's Palm Beach County tells residents to use their vehicles as weapons against protesters who may be blocking their path.
21. "Gestapo" tactics at US police 'black site' ring alarm from Chicago to Washington
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Politicians and rights groups call for inquiries into interrogations at Homan Square. Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces questions as top supporters examine abuse.
22. Handbook to Survive Bad Policing
    Resource Type: Book
    Guide to surviving police harassment and abuse. Helps anyone targeted by the police but especially Aboriginal youth, people of colour, and recent immigrants. Explains rights and strategies for dealing with the police.
23. IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks Raid
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest of Valery Smetanin, Editor-in-chief and Galina Yablokova and her son Alexej Yablokov, two founders of the Ivanovo-Press weekly in central Russia.
24. Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADA
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
25. Journalism of Outrage
    Investigative Reporting and Agenda Building in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Examines the myths and misconceptions of investigative journalism and presents empirical research to support a model that challenges the classical theory.
26. Journalist faced prison for posting media relations number
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Carlos Miller founder and publisher of Photography is Not a Crime, a leading blog about free speech and press rights in the U.S., Miller has made it his mission to publicize examples of government overreach and the suppression of journalists' and other newsgatherers' rights.
27. LAPD Chickens Come Home to Roost
    Why I'm More Scared of the Cops Than I Am of Christopher Dorner
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    
28. Lawsuit accuses DC police of collusion with far right
    An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit alleging that police broke protocol by working with a far-right organisation.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Federal prosecutors and the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in Washington, DC, colluded with far-right groups in cases against anti-Trump protesters, a recently filed lawsuit alleges.
29. Let Me Be Frank: Francesco Serpico, A Genuine Actor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    When you see injustice and corruption, when you open your eyes and see lying and deceit everywhere, you must be your own hero; you must be courageous and act.
30. Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
    Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
31. 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.
32. Met police face legal action for 'kettling' of protest teenagers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Police in the UK are being sued for using violence against students during a tuition fees protest by three minors who suffered injuries. They claim they were falsely detained and denied medical assistance. Their lawyers believe the police violated the European convention on human rights.
33. Miners' strike: senior officer was 'appalled' at conduct of other police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A senior police officer breaks ranks to describe how he and others were "appalled" at the behaviour of colleagues during the 1984-85 miners' strike in the UK, as calls mount for a fresh inquiry into the policing of the dispute.
34. Minimising the Risk of Police Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Police may be violent at nonviolent actions for various reasons. In my experience, the most important ones are because police are directed to use violence as a form of political repression and because police are afraid of what to expect. Thus, in addition to considering the many other aspects of any nonviolent strategy, the planning process might consider ways in which any action can be made less vulnerable to police repression (or, for that
    matter, violence by provocateurs).
35. New Orleans' Police Death Squads
    Against The Current vol. 151
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    An interview with Malcolm Suber, a New Orleans community activist and fighter for justice, and a former candidate for city council. Against the Current asked him to comment on the struggle around murders by police during Hurricane Katrina and the ongoing fight over police brutality.
36. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
37. 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.
38. 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?
39. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infractions that produce fines. When predictably these fines cannot be paid additional fines are piled on top and the person is thrown in prison.
40. 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.
41. Police log 'domestic extremists' and keep database on activists
    Forces survey and file details of peaceful protests and political activities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    'Domestic Extremists' are persons involved in political meetings and protests who are photographed and added to a national database by the UK police. This surveillance falls under the purview of "terrorism and allied matters" and these police tactics are now the subject of an internal review. They have been widely criticized for lacking accountability.
42. Police Ripped Off More Stuff Than Burglars Did Last Year
    Civil asset forfeiture is big business for cops
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Law enforcement use of asset forfeiture laws to seize property -- often without a criminal conviction or even an arrest -- has gone through the roof in recent years, and now the cops are giving the criminals a run for their money, and winning.
43. 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.
44. The Praxis Affair
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A cautionary story of what might happen if we return to the bad old days of the RCMP Security Service, which was caught disrupting and using dirty tricks against a wide range of unsuspecting groups before it was eventually disbanded.
45. Press Conference: First Hand Accounts of Mass Arrests and Intimidation in Toronto
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    The Alternative Media Centre, Toronto Community Mobilization Network and Movement Defence Committee will hold a joint press conference to present first hand accounts of the events that have been taking place in recent hours.
46. Rapport Annuel 1977-78
    avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    
47. RCMP (Recent Coercive Methods of Pacification)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Strike, Vol.2, No.8
48. RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    The Mounties bombed an oil installation as part of a dirty tricks campaign in their investigation into sabotage in the Alberta's oil patch.
49. RCMP - The Real Subversives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    A critique of the motives and actions of the RCMP.
50. 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.
51. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Essays by Dave Dellinger
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Dellinger says that "those of us who oppose the violence of the status quo and reject the violence of armed revolt and class hatred bear a heavy responsibility to struggle existentially to provdew nonviolent alternatives." Dellinger's essays attempt to explore those alternatives.
52. RSF fully supports journalists suing Ferguson police
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Arrests of journalists while gathering information and covering demonstrations are inadmissible in the country of the First Amendment.
53. She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Under the American zero tolerance policy at the southern U.S. border hundreds of children are being separated from their mothers and families, including babies and toddlers.
54. The Sixties
    Years of Hope, Days of Rage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
55. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
56. The social significance of Toronto's June 15 homeless "riot"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    What happened on June 15 bears close attention for what it says about the trajectory of politics in Ontario and the country as a whole. The police ran amok, attacking not only anyone participating in the demonstration, but even medical personnel tending the wounded. Moreover, the police were acting at the behest of a Tory provincial government that has done real violence to the poor, by slashing welfare benefits by 21.5 percent, eliminating social housing and abolishing rent controls.
57. 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.
58. Submission to the MacDonald Commissionon the R.C.M.P
    Resource Type: Article
    The authors of this submission are concerned with the presence of the RCMP Security Services at events such as trade union meetings.
59. Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    A study of the role of the FBI in the postwar Red Scare, focusing especially on Ronald Reagan's long and creepy relationship with the FBI. It is also a fascinating account of the origins and development the New Left, and a powerful examination of how the FBI corroded due process and democracy.
60. 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.
61. Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'
    Tasers in the Line of Fire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Tasers are part of the modern police's arsenal. But how safe are they and why are the guidelines for their use so vague? By 2011, Amnesty International had recorded 450 deaths after a Taser firing.
62. Toronto's Finest
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1981
    Too many cops seem to enjoy intimidating people and smashing things.
63. 12 most absurd laws used to stifle occupy movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Here are 12 desperate and unsuccessful measures the authorities are using to discourage, deter and crack down on peaceful protests.
64. 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    As Occupy Wall Street protests spring up in cities across the country, authorities are thinking up creative ways to contain this peaceful and inspiring uprising. Although laws and municipal ordinances vary from city to city, there is a consistency in the tactics being used to stifle the movement.
65. Unacceptable police violence against journalists covering demonstrations
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders calls on the Greek authorities to publicly condemn cases of police violence against journalists during the demonstrations of the past few weeks and to give the police clear instructions not to use violence against media.
66. Violence Goes to College
    Are We Going to Hell?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The priorities of the campus are clear. An Assistant Professor earns an annual salary in the low $60,000 range; a Lieutenant in the campus safety department (the man who fired the pepper gas, for instance) brings home $110,000.
67. What Black Lives Matter means for Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An account and analysis of the centrality of the Black freedom struggle to the working class movement as a whole, arguing that the struggle for Black liberation is a precondition for human liberation generallyand recognizing the deep historical thread connecting the centuries-old struggle for Black freedom in the U.S. and the struggle to organize the working class to fight for workers' power.
68. 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.

Experts on Police Misconduct in the Sources Directory

1. Wikileaks