Lori Pollock was supposed to be promoted to chief of detectives for the NYPD, but instead she was demoted to the head of the Office of Collaborative Policing. So she retired, citing a culture of gender bias permeating the department.  Which makes us continue to ponder the question, is police culture toxic? Having a secure, …

Trump and his closest cronies are doing whatever they can to help their man win 2020. The latest strategy is to make voting harder, a time-honored American tradition. Louis DeJoy (an oddly apt name) has just sacked key Post Office officials and is threatening to cut spending dramatically, which would prove disastrous for the 2020 …

Kayne West’s allegedly Independent presidential run may actually be a strategy to siphon off black voters from the Democratic party and help Donald Trump. That may sound crazy at first, but consider the fact that key Republican operatives are pushing Kanye to run and helping manage his campaign. This isn’t the only non-traditional move made …

Text messages and photos of an imprisoned Uighur man reveal humans rights abuses, including beating, cruel restraints, isolation, and potentially torture. Uighur women are speaking out about their experiences under Beijing’s genocidal campaign, describing forced sterilization and other human rights violations. A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups says that is “virtually certain” one …

Connecticut has become the most recent political entity to enact police reform. The new law, signed by Gov. Ned Lamont late last week, bans chokeholds, limits police departments’ ability to withhold disciplinary records, and sets up an independent police watchdog. Seattle has also joined the growing movement to defund the police. City leaders have supported …

Uighur women are speaking out about their experiences under Beijing’s genocidal campaign, describing forced sterilization and other human rights violations. A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups says that is “virtually certain” one in five cotton products are the result of forced Uighur labor, and that almost entire fashion industry is complicit in …

A cache of documents related to the dealings between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell have been released. The documents contain emails between the two, including one in which Epstein told Maxwell she had “done nothing wrong.” Two depositions remain under wraps, however. The documents also indicate that Maxwell sexually abused and groomed Virginia Giuffre, the …

Unsurprisingly, the presence of violent, untrained federal troops in Portland, Oregon is leading to more protests and more police brutality. Although Trump claims he wants to stop the unrest in Portland, city officials say the troops are only making things worse. One wonders if that’s what Trump wants, given the debacle at a press briefing …

According to a Gallup poll, almost every American is in favor of some level of police reform. While the percentages of people who think there needs to be major reform versus those who think the reforms should be minor, very few say no change is needed. Seattle has joined the growing movement to defund the …

President Trump has sent federal police to Portland, in what critics are calling an act of political theater: “This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Kate Brown, Oregon’s Democratic governor, said in a statement. “The president is failing to lead this nation. Now he is deploying federal officers to …

In what is shaping up to be a repeat of his 2016 campaign, Donald Trump has demoted his campaign manager Brad Parscale. This news is the latest sign that the Trump campaign is, in the words of a recent Hill piece, flailing. That’s because things have been going horribly for him. New polls show that Donald Trump’s approval …

The New York Times has found over sixty videos showing police brutality against protestors, often unwarranted. The great irony of the nationwide protest over police brutality (specifically against the black community) is that it’s somehow inspiring the police to commit more violence. The LAPD is being sued for shooting a homeless, wheelchair-bound man in the face with rubber bullets (warning: the …