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Driving While Black (By Association) is a collection of first-hand accounts. This is a work of autobiographical narrative nonfiction, which spans almost 18 years of my life. It details thirteen incidents involving racially motivated police misconduct, with each episode presented as a self-contained story. Taken together, these anecdotes paint a picture of racial oppression from an atypical point of view--Back cover.
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Los Angeles has one of the nation's most controversial police departments. In the fall of 1998, still reeling from the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson debacles, the LAPD took a far more damaging hit when officer Rafael Perez implicated over seventy fellow officers -- members of the elite Rampart street-crimes unit -- in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, false imprisonment, and allegedly murder. Now award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan...
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As anger and resentment grow in the face of social inequalities, many citizen-led protests are being repressed with ever-increasing violence. In this documentary, David Dufresne gathers a panel of citizens to question, exchange, and confront their views on the social order and the legitimacy of the use of force by the State.
67) Hana-bi
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Former police officer Nishi feels responsible for the shattered lives of his loved ones. His partner Horbie has been crippled in a disastrous stakeout, a colleague is shot dead by the same villain, and his own wife has a terminal illness. In debt to a yakuza loanshark, Nishi conceives a bank robbery to provide for his partner, help the dead cop's widow, and take one last holiday throughout Japan with his wife and share a final taste of happiness.
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Say her name: An investigation into the disputed cause of death of black activist Sandra Bland, who died in police custody in Waller County, Texas, after a routine traffic stop by state trooper Brian Encinia.
The Central Park Five: Chronicles America's complicated perceptions of race and crime through the story of the "Central Park 5"--A group of minority teenagers wrongfully convicted and jailed for brutally raping a white woman in New York.
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Police use of force has been a major concern for police departments and citizens in the United States since the 1840s when police started carrying guns. Dr. Palmiotto presents the most important issues facing the police and the communities they serve in encounters that turn violent. It starts with a thorough historical introduction, covers use of force, deadly force, non-lethal weapons, militarization of policing, racism and profiling, legal cases,...
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"Ferguson became the impetus for a national movement. Soon, other fatal officer-involved encounters with black suspects drew similar scrutiny. In South Carolina, officer Michael Slager was charged with murder in the death of 50-year-old Walter Scott after cellphone video appeared to show the North Charleston officer shooting the man in the back. The death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore led to charges against six police officers and massive...
71) The Force
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Beginning in 2014, this film chronicles two years with the Oakland Police Department, which, in 2003, was put under federal oversight for misconduct and civil rights abuses. Relations between the department and the community are explored in the wake of nationally publicized police shootings and the advent of the Black Lives Matter Movement.
"Sprawling, immediate, and complex, Peter Nicks's verité documentary moves like a pulsing, timely thriller....
72) Taka: act two
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Foxy Brown plus Cleopatra Jones equals Taka Denisho, New Jersey Special Operations Detective. She's still holding her crown and reigning over her city, Mudd City! Her juggling act consist of marrying her lesbian lover Miccki, the former girl friend of drug lord Dyshun and parenting an orphan, Miles. Things continue to heat up in the second installment of this urban tale.
74) Downtown white police: demonizing the alpha cop, glorifying thugs, and militarizing law enforcement
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"Downtown white police is an important book. But above all, it is the most interesting book at the intersection of race and crime that has been published in many years"--P. [4] of cover.
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"This collection of reports and essays explores police violence against Black, Brown, Indigenous and other marginalized communities, miscarriages of justice, and failures of token accountability and reform measures. It also makes a compelling and provocative argument against calling the police. Contributions cover a broad range of issues including the killing by police of Black men and women, police violence against Latino and Indigenous communities,...
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"On December 7, 2015, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section, and the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, jointly initiated an investigation of the City of Chicago's Police Department (CPD) and the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA). This investigation was undertaken to determine whether the Chicago Police Department is engaging in a pattern or practice...
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This is the complete report of the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and the office of the District Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, into the long, brutal history of the Chicago Police Department. On Dec. 7, 2015, Attorney General Lynch announced the investigation into the CPD and the city's Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA). The investigation focused on CPD's use of force, including racial, ethnic and other disparities...
80) Taka: act one
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"Taka Denesho is a foul-tempered, karate wielding, female cop in Mudd City, New Jersey. She gets the job of protecting Mikki, a notorious drug lord's girlfriend, after a hellish raid. Dyshun gives the order for his boys to kill the girl before she can testify against him. When passion ignites between Mikki and Taka, his anger reaches its boiling point. Now he wants them both dead ... at all costs. The temperature rises in Jersey as lesbian lovers,...
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