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Criminals with Permission

A poem about racial profiling by a 13-year-old Brooklyn resident.

2 min readMar 23, 2015

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Criminals with Permission

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In Their Own Words | Part 7: Something is really building

“We do need police, but we don’t need to live in a police state.”

4 min readFeb 2, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 7: Something is really building

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In Their Own Words | Part 6: Corruption and brutality, real and threatened

“Abuse is abuse, and no one deserves to be beaten the way my child has been beaten.”

5 min readFeb 2, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 6: Corruption and brutality, real and threatened

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In Their Own Words | Part 5: The biggest gang here in New York City

“This is what Harlem has turned into — an open-air prison. You can get stopped for anything.”

6 min readFeb 2, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 5: The biggest gang here in New York City

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In Their Own Words | Part 4: Fit The Description

“[Police] need to see citizens as human beings and not just as quotas.”

4 min readJan 26, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 4: Fit The Description

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Bill Bratton, Robert Peel, and Today’s Police

“I became a police officer because I wanted to help people,” he said, “but the job doesn’t support it.”

4 min readJan 26, 2015

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Bill Bratton, Robert Peel, and Today’s Police

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Police Reform Organizing
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PROP Reports

In Their Own Words | Part 3: Daily Disrespect

“[The cops] said, ‘Pull up your hoodie and turn around,’ to see if I had a gun. Being from an Arab country, I take

3 min readJan 26, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 3: Daily Disrespect

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Police Reform Organizing
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In Their Own Words | Part 2: Life as an NYPD target

“It forces me to look around wherever I am now.”

4 min readJan 26, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 2: Life as an NYPD target

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Police Reform Organizing
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PROP Reports

In Their Own Words | Part 1: For No Good Reason

Quotes from New Yorkers about daily harrassment and abuse from the NYPD.

7 min readJan 23, 2015

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In Their Own Words | Part 1: For No Good Reason

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Police Reform Organizing

Police Reform Organizing

Working to expose the ineffective, unjust, illegal, discriminatory and racially biased practices of the NYPD.

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