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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions Library"Do Not Resist": The Police Militarization Documentary Everyone Should See Devereaux, Ryan Article 2016 On a sunny afternoon last summer, Craig Atkinson, a New York City-based filmmaker, stood in a front yard in South Carolina surrounded by several heavily armed police officers. Inside, they found a ter... 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People: It's Not Just About Crime! Quigley, Bill Article 2015 Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people. Handbook to Survive Bad Policing Book Guide to surviving police harassment and abuse. Helps anyone targeted by the police but especially Aboriginal youth, people of colour, and recent immigrants. Explains rights and strategies for dealing... Huge Pipeline Company Kinder Morgan Hired Off-Duty Cops to 'Deter Protests' in Pennsylvania Brown, Alleen Article 2015 Kinder Morgan, the self-proclaimed "largest energy infrastructure company in North America," paid $50,000 for off-duty police officers from a Pennsylvania department to patrol a controversial gas pipe... An Immediate End to Police Brutality and Murder of Black People by Police Jacob, Ron Article 2016 The Black Panther Party remains unfulfilled fifty years after the Party's founding. This truth is a tragic acknowledgement of both the failure of US capitalism to resolve its greatest disgrace and an ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 7, 2016: Depression and Joy Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2016 It's a difficult thing to measure, but there are strong reasons for believing that the number of people struggling with depression has increased significantly in recent decades. Despite the evidence t... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 1, 2017: April 1 issue Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 Other Voices always strives to present you with alternative views on important topics. This issue offers some really alternative perspectives and even some "alternative facts." As always, read critica... Police: Urban Policing in Canada Sewell, John Book 1985 Policing is crucial to society. In the public's mind, police stand for law and order, protecting the law-abiding from the law-breaker. But what does the police officer on the beat actually do? Does th... The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors Platt, Brian Article 2015 The criminal justice system has increasingly become the preferred way to fund city governments in the modern neoliberal nightmare that is the United States. The police target the poor for petty infrac... Police in Canada: The Real Story Sewell, John Book 2010 What's going on with Canada's police? Once an institution that commanded respect and trust, the police are now widely regarded with skepticism and even suspicion. Police Torture and the Real Militarization of Society Martinot, Steve Article 2015 What rights can we still say we have, if we find ourselves trapped in a military structure? A person has the right to remain silent if arrested, but one does not have the right to remain silent if app... Queer Progress: From Homophobia to Homonationalism McCaskell, Tim Book 2016 A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist. The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed - And Why We Should Lift the Ban Mangla, Ravi Article 2015 Mangla narrates the origins of jaywalking and the reason why it was made illegal. Silence on police carding of White working-class Article 2015 a majority of the people who are carded are Whites. The cops in the city of Hamilton and other municipalities have pointed to this fact to make the incorrect claim that carding is not racist. Why have... Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History Palmer, Bryan D.; Heroux, Gaetan Book 2016 Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food an... Sources LibraryThe Countdown Clock Law is Ridiculous, and so is the Police Pedestrian Blitz The pedestrian countdown clock law shows what's wrong with Toronto's approach to road issues. Bowerman, Glyn 2016 The Highway Traffic Act is a foolish law, and this crackdown is antithetical to council’s stated goals. Rather than wasting police resources on enforcing it, we should be appealing to the province to ... The end of carding? Diemer, Ulli 2015 The Ontario government has announced that it intends to bring in regulations to stop the police practice of stopping people at random and demanding their information. Of course this form of harassment... McDonald's Denies NYPD Deal to Give Happy Meals to Stop and Frisk Victims 2012 McDonald's denied participating in a campaign called "Three Strikes, You're In!" that rewarded New Yorkers who have been victims of NYPD's stop and frisk policies with a Happy Meal. The Yes Men have c... New Zealand journalist harassed by police to name sources Sources News Release 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate the EPMU New Zealand in criticising the police harassment of an investigative journalist Nicky Hager and has called on police... Operation Soap Wikipedia article Operation Soap was a raid by the Metropolitan Toronto Police against four gay bathhouses in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which took place on February 5, 1981. More than three hundred men were arrested, t... |
