Comedian Jerrod Carmichael Creates ‘The Perfect Phone For Filming Police Brutality’
Comedian/actor Jerrod Carmichael has invented a new phone that might rival Apple’s coveted products. Well not in reality, but in...
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Hold Police Fraternities Accountable
When Attorney General Loretta Lynch spoke to the Fraternal Order of Police last month, she came with a message: “Thank...
Batman Comic Tackles Police Brutality and Gentrification
In issue No. 44 of DC Comics’ Batman, the story reads like a ripped-from-the-headlines issue. Lead writer Scott Snyder wanted...
Police Accountability App Evolves to Next Generation Emergency Response Platform
COLUMBUS, OH – Less than three months after the announcement of Cell 411, the version 2 of the app was just...
Fewer Bad Cops? Yes. Good Cops? No
– By Jordan Freshour “Hi, buddy! I’m your friendly neighborhood police officer! Would you like a glass of water?” Recently, I...
Iraq Vet: My Police Academy Teaches the ‘War on Cops’ Myth
In my rural red state police academy, instructors preach about ‘officers dying left and right’—even though the numbers show this...
ACLU Sues San Francisco PD For Police Brutality And Racism
A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed against San Francisco police department for an incident of alleged police brutality against a...
California Cops Shoot Three People in Five Days
Man shot for brandishing two-foot pipe On September 7, a Fresno, California police officer shot and killed Casimero “Shane” Carlos...
No, Police Defenders, There Is No ‘War on Cops’
In this Aug. 20, 2014 file photo police arrest a man as they disperse a protest against the shooting of...
Police Brutality and PTSD: Is There a Connection?
The juxtaposition of views on the police is wide. On one side, the police are depicted almost universally as militarized...
The Violence is Not New, It’s the Cameras That are New
Today we spend the hour with Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of an explosive new book about white supremacy and being black...
Anti-Police Graffiti Spreading in Texas
Graffiti has recently appeared in both Austin, the capital of Texas, and in Houston, the state’s largest city, amid rising...
Police Brutality Defenders Practice Defiant Denial, Accommodate Abuse
Two men shot and killed, one a fleeing man in South Carolina, one a Texas sheriff: No connection, no equivalence...
American Who Died in Turkey in 2013 Possible Victim of Police Brutality
A criminal case has been launched against the 12 police officers responsible for the death of the African American woman...
Why is There Systemic Police Abuse in Baltimore?
TheRealNews investigates and attempts to answer this question. AUTO-GENERATED TRANSCRIPT TAYA GRAHAM, TRNN: This is Taya Graham reporting for the...
US Cops Get Antiterror And Militarized Training in Israel
Memebers of an Israeli police SWAT team perform during a training exercise organized by the Anti-Defamation League as part of...
Obama Slams ‘Unacceptable’ Cop Killing, Fails to Mention Many More Cop Victims
President Barack Obama vowed Monday to push for police officer safety after a Texas sheriff’s deputy was gunned down from...
U.S. Police Face Severe Shortage of Recruits
With the number of applicants down more than 90 percent in some cities, police departments may soon be posting more...
Law Enforcement Departments Receive Failing Grades In Twitter-Based Report Card
IBTimes reports that if police departments were graded by social media users the way a high school teacher grades homework,...
This is Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness
“We see it every day, in the news and in the media, confrontations between people with mental illness and authorities,”...
