Jun 26 Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio goes on trial for defying court order on immigration enforcement By Jacques Billeaud, Associated Press Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal trial opened Monday over his defiance of the courts in traffic patrols that targeted immigrants, marking the most aggressive effort to hold the former lawman of metro Phoenix accountable for tactics that critics say racially… Continue reading
Jul 07 Watch 4:16 Death of Philando Castile, another fatal shooting by police, draws condemnation By PBS News Hour A police officer shot 32-year-old Philando Castile in his car Wednesday after pulling him over for a broken tail light. The aftermath was filmed and broadcast on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend, who explained that he had been legally carrying a… Continue watching
Jul 07 Watch 10:16 Calling out for help by capturing police shootings on camera By PBS News Hour Why did a police officer use lethal force against Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop in Minnesota? Hari Sreenivasan talks to Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker, David Klinger of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Issie Lapowsky of… Continue watching
Nov 30 Poet Franny Choi pictures a world without police By Corinne Segal What world a world without police look like? Poet Franny Choi’s work attempts to answer that question. Continue reading
May 01 Watch 7:29 Do Baltimore’s charges against police signal a change? By PBS News Hour To learn more about the charges against six officers in the death of Freddie Gray, Judy Woodruff talks to David Harris of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and former Baltimore prosecutor Debbie Hines. Continue watching
Jan 26 Yale police aim gun at columnist’s son, turn spotlight on racial profiling on campus By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed The debate over racial profiling -- already a hot topic on many college campuses -- gained renewed attention this weekend when Yale University police briefly detained a black male student Saturday evening. Continue reading
Dec 08 Watch 5:07 News Wrap: Six Guantanamo detainees resettled in Uruguay By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, six detainees who have been held for more than a decade at Guantanamo without being charged have arrived in Uruguay to be resettled as refugees. Also, the Justice Department released new guidelines on federal law… Continue watching
Dec 08 White House issues guidelines to ban racial and religious profiling By Eric Tucker, Associated Press The policy, which expands decade-old guidelines established under the Bush administration, also will require new training and data collection. Continue reading
Dec 06 Profiling rules exempt agents at airports, border By Eric Tucker, Associated Press Federal agents who guard the border and screen passengers at airports would be exempt from new racial profiling guidelines that must be observed by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. Those guidelines are being announced by the Obama administration… Continue reading
Aug 14 Watch After night barrage of gas and grenades, images of Ferguson confrontations resonate around U.S. By PBS News Hour Continue watching