Did Jill Freedman, a leftist activist, create a pro-law enforcement series of images?
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Cop Admits to Playing Copyrighted Music to Keep Activist Recording off Youtube
During a recorded conversation with activists, an officer began backing the conversation with the sounds of Taylor Swift.
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The Entanglements Between Policing, Surveillance, and Moving Images
Theo Anthony unpacks the fraught history that has brought us the body camera in his documentary All Light, Everywhere, which recently premiered at Sundance.
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Photographer Arrested by NYPD While Covering Anti-Trump Demonstration
Chae Kihn, an independent New York photographer, is seen tackled to the ground by police in video footage taken at the scene.
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In Miami, a Museum Attempts to Bring Teens and Cops Together Over Art
Art Detectives, a partnership between the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Miami-Dade Police Department, and two community organizations that launched last month, may be the only program of its kind in the US.
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Illustrating a Police Sergeant’s Interrogation of a Black Boy
A new collaborative comic illustrates a leaked transcript of a Minneapolis PD sergeant’s 1996 interrogation of a 14-year-old black child.
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“A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday” Flag Goes Up in New York City
This week, we’ve witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.
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What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?
BOSTON — I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn’t think about anything other than death.
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The San Francisco Police Department Has an Instagram Officer
If The Wire ran on television today, one of the characters would probably be an Instagram officer.
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Kiev’s Attractive New Police Force Told to Pose for Selfies with Civilians
When 2,000 new police officers were sworn into duty in Kiev last Saturday, Ukrainians couldn’t help noticing how attractive the recruits — a quarter of them women — looked.
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A Photo Series Casts Black College Students as Criminals in Caps and Gowns
EJ Brown remembers being a kid and hearing older relatives talk about Rodney King, the Los Angeles taxi driver beaten by the LAPD.
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Follow This Man Out of the New Museum
“I do wonder, when I lead complete strangers around on my walks, and take them to sites that don’t dredge up some awful racial history so they have no racial referent — I wonder the degree to which they allow themselves to have racial thoughts.”