The academic year that just ended left America’s college campuses in quite a state: with snipers on the rooftops and checkpoints at the gates; quads overrun…
Michael Gould-Wartofsky
“There must be some kind of way out of here…” As night fell over the South River Forest, the music festival was…
To residents of Memphis’s resource-poor, predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods, the Scorpions were easy to spot. The plainclothes patrols were known for driving their unmarked Dodge…
On the morning of January 18, agents from nine agencies, including the FBI and its local counterpart, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation,…
As Baltimore was bracing for renewed protests over the death of Freddie Gray, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) was preparing for battle
A Five-Step Guide to the Police Repression of Protest from Ferguson to Baltimore and Beyond
“Riots” aren’t random occurrences. They’re a reaction to structural oppression
The political calculus behind immigration reform was supposed to have changed after the elections of 2012. The outcome of the elections, along…
Campus spies. Pepper spray. SWAT teams. Twitter trackers. Biometrics. Student security consultants. Professors of homeland security studies. Welcome to Repress U, class…
At the Million Hoodie March, the name of Trayvon Martin was the first name on everyone's lips. But as the behoodied masses of…