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  1. McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    McDonald's denied participating in a campaign called "Three Strikes, You're In!" that rewarded New Yorkers who have been victims of NYPD's stop and frisk policies with a Happy Meal. The Yes Men have confirmed that "Three Strikes, You're In!" is a hoax.
  2. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017
    April 1 issue

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critically - and enjoy.
  3. 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.
  4. Silence on police carding of White working-class
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    a majority of the people who are carded are Whites. The cops in the city of Hamilton and other municipalities have pointed to this fact to make the incorrect claim that carding is not racist. Why haven’t we universally raised class profiling to a similar level as racial profiling?
  5. Stop-and-Frisk as a Policy of State Control Over Blacks and Latinos
    Hobbes on Trial in New York City

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Nicholas Peart is one of the plaintiffs in the federal class action lawsuit against the New York Police Department’s policy of stop-and-frisk, where officers use their power to roam the streets and stop, search and question people they believe may be connected to crime. Their allegation is that the application of this method is racially biased and unconstitutional.
  6. Stop and search guide to your rights
    A page of information about police stop and search powers in the UK and your rights when you are stopped and searched.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    What is a ‘Stop and Search’? Police officers can stop and talk to you at any time. But they should only search you if they suspect you are carrying: Drugs, Weapons, Stolen property, Tools which could be used to commit a crime.
  7. Unlawful Dissent
    New Laws Around the Globe Don't Curb Inequity, They Undercut Social Protests and Gag Free Speech

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The state is increasingly encroaching upon dissent as social conditions worsen.

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