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. 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.
3. CIJ Convention - Police Sources
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1980
   
4. Concocting a Crime-Ageddon to Promote Police Power
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Manhattan is overrun with criminals and nobody is safe! -- or that’s what certain tabloids and newspapers would have you believe. Through the use of misleading statistics and extraordinary exceptions, the Mayor of New York has been successfully depicted as 'soft-on-crime' even though the city's crime rate is at an all-time low.
5. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1982
   
6. Connexions Library: Human Rights and Civil Liberties Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on civil liberties and human rights.
7. Drug War Winners and Losers
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   A review of Dawn Paley's book "Drug War Capitalism."
8. EFF Sues Justice Department for Records About FBI’s Plans for Rapid DNA
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI to gain access to documents revealing the government’s plans to use Rapid DNA.
9. 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.
10. The End of Policing & Police: A Field Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    A Field Guide to the Police is a study of the indirect and taken-for granted language of policing, a language we're all forced to speak when we talk about law enforcement. The book refuses to see the world as police do, instead it contends that when we talk about police and police reform, we speak the language of police legitimation through the art of euphemism. State sexual assault becomes "body-cavity search," and ruthless beatings become "plain compliance." Like any other field guide, it reveals a world that is hidden in plain view. In entries like "Police dog," "Stop and frisk," "Rough ride," and scores more, the authors show how "copspeak" obscures the true meaning and history of policing. This book will arm activists on the streets--as well as anyone with an open mind--on one of the key issues of our time: police violence. The book argues that a redefined language of policing might help us chart a future free of police and police violence.
11. For every 1,000 people killed by police, one officer is convicted of a crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Out of thousands of people killed by police in the United States since 2005, only 11 officers have been convicted of any crimes.
12. 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
    It's Not Just About Crime!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
13. "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.
14. Handcuffed and herded
    My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
15. 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.
16. I fit the description....
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police. I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Centre Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car. "Hey my man," he said. He unsnapped the holster of his gun.
17. Land of Impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    If the police can get away with killing Ian Tomlinson, there's no justice in Britain.
18. 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.
19. Let the Fire Burn
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2013
    A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.
20. Magnum force cops: 'If you're holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    US law enforcement is increasingly using military weapons for everyday tasks. Instead of hiding behind heavy armor, they should be building trust with the community, Peter Bibring, attorney for the ACLU of Southern California, told RT.
21. Les Militants et la Police
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    
22. A New City Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    While Canadians have quickly recognized the importance of healthy cities in their own lives and communities, governments have lagged far behind. In A New City Agenda, journalist and former mayor, John Sewell answers the question: What would a new deal for cities look like? He articulates a new vision for Canada’s largest urban regions and the implementation of required changes in social services, public education, settlement, health, housing, policing, land use and governance.
23. 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.
24. New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance Tools.
25. No Tasers For Toronto Police, Communities Urge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The Urban Alliance on Race Relations, working on civilian oversight of police since 1975, is joined by lawyers and academics to oppose the buying of more tasers at the Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) public meeting on 'Conducted Energy Weapons'.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Pipeline Company Paid Pennsylvania Police Department to 'Deter Protests'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. Kinder Morgan's aim, according to documents obtained by Earth Island Journal, was to use law enforcement to "deter protests" in order to avoid "costly delays."
29. 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?
30. 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.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. Police Militarism in America
    In Many Communities Cops are the Terrorists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The apparent murder by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of Mike Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black youth who was shot a number of times while he was allegedly on his knees with his hands up in the air, pleading “Don’t shoot, I’m not armed,” is exposing everything that is wrong with policing in the US today. What we need today is community resistance to police abuse, and a demilitarization of policing.
34. 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.
35. Quebec police shop for tanks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    
36. Race, class and police murder in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people and widespread protests against police violence as proof of deepening and unbridgeable racial divisions in the United States.
37. Raleigh police are asking Google to provide user data for all people near crime scenes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, have presented Google with warrants to obtain data from mobile phones from not just specific suspects who were in a crime scene area, but from the mobile phones of all people in the area
38. Rapport Annuel 1977-78
    avec le rapport sur la colloque Police et Liberte
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    
39. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
40. Sources HotLink - June 30, 2016
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Articles about the FBI and the information it gathers, Donald Trump and the media, and the role of pharmaceutical companies in suppressing information.
41. 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.
42. UK police will soon start bagging people's heads during arrests
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Metropolitan Police officers will soon be able to use specially designed bags, known as spit hoods, to cover suspects’ heads during arrests and in police stations. The mesh bags are used to restrain suspects and protect the police from those who might try to bite or spit at them. The Met insists the hoods prevents exposure to diseases and serious infection.
43. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
44. 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.

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