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Topic: Use of Force

Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community

“Racism is a public health crisis,” according to a May 2020 statement from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)....

Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons

The ongoing scourge of police terrorism has reinvigorated an important national conversation about policing and incarceration — their history, purpose,...

The Data That Shows We Still Don’t ‘Say Her Name’

Breonna Taylor is the only Black woman killed by police whose case is familiar to most Americans. And a Newsy...

National Association of Minority Veterans (NAMVETS) and UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic Advisory: The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Police Force

#SayHerName Chime Special

Historically, Black women, girls, and femmes have not fit the most accessible frames of anti-Black police violence. Consequently, it is...

How Governments Pay: Lawsuits, Budgets, and Police Reform

A report that looks into who foots the bill for law enforcement settlements and judgments in locations around the US....

The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19

This ACLU research report examines whether circumstances surrounding the public health crisis — unprecedented societal isolation combined with relaxed police...

Not Just “A Few Bad Apples”: US Police Kill Civilians at Much Higher Rates Than Other Countries

There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S. – who are disproportionately Black...

Defund. Reinvest. Protect

In the wake of George Floyd's murder by MPD officer Derek Chauvin, Black Portlanders, together with thousands of allies, have...