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Police Accountability AlterLinks Topic Index 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. Dark Days The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 An exposé of Canadian national security investigations, Kerry Pither's Dark Days exposes a disturbing record of human-rights abuses, both at home and abroad, and ultimately questions our notion of the "Just Society". "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. 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. IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizalan in criticising the Public Security Law 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? 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. 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. The Socialist Register 1982 Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982 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. The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 After a year of high-profile police killings, calls for a national database have gained traction. But how would that work? Tom McCarthy investigates the challenges for law enforcement and government officials alike. 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. 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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