Brickbat: Who’s There?
Responding to a disturbance call, police officers in Grand Prairie, Texas, mistakenly arrived at the home of Thomas Simpson. They say when they knocked on the door, Simpson…
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‘Botched’ Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence
When Alecia Phonesavanh heard her 19-month-old son, Bou Bou, screaming, she thought he was simply frightened by the armed men who had burst into the house in the…
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Inside a 20-year effort to clean up the Oakland Police Department
The Riders Come Out at Night, by Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham, Atria Books, 480 pages, $30 Oakland, California, is “the edge case in American policing,” journalists Ali…
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