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The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
For decades, there’s been a concerted effort by law enforcement to ensure their perspectives – and not those of people being policed – dominate prime-time television.
Iraq, Guatemala and the autonomous region of Bougainville have all tried to demilitarise their police forces – with varying degrees of success.
Will police accept the challenge of ending
Māori over-representation at every stage of the criminal justice system in Aotearoa-New Zealand?
There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
For almost a century, American popular culture has perpetuated the idea that only journalists working in foreign countries could be in danger.
The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
Police officers put themselves and their families in harm’s way in order to stop crime and protect us. But who protects them?
Fears of looming totalitarianism are unfounded, despite some valid concerns about new COVID-19 laws.
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Nearly 90% of emergency service staff have experienced stress, low mood and poor mental health.
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
Many people are unaware of their rights and options if they receive a penalty notice, especially if they think they’ve done nothing wrong.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
We need any new laws on what we can and can’t do to be clear to all, applied consistently and transparently, which is not the case at the moment.
It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
In a survey, Trump supporters showed the lowest faith in the Supreme Court, the federal government, the media and other pillars of society.
The RCMP have long been responsible for violence against Indigenous people.
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