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• - An article from About.com concerning the new ACLU report accusing law enforcement of racial harassment and abuse of power in traffic stops.
  
• - Political cartoons about the New York City Police shooting case, by all of the top editorial cartoonists in the world.
  
• - Cover story by Stephen James about police who killed Steven Wallen in El Dorado County, California. Photographs and diagrams included.
  
• - Weekly Wire report on victims of police brutality. Documentation and interviews in Chicago.
  
• - Individual complaint that the "anti-constitutional" laws and process encourage alleged police and prosecutorial brutality. Plus news of police problems elsewhere.
  
• - A clear and easily readable, local example of an agency's work in monitoring and reducing police misconduct.
  
• - Robert Woodward, a community activist and pacifist, was gunned down by Brattleboro Police in a church as he stood holding a small knife to his eye, in front of 18 eyewitnesses.
  
• - Annual march organized by the Committee to Stop Targetted Policing.
  
• - A page outlining the annual protest against police brutality around the world.
  
• - Protest activities, information about political prisoners. Calendar, news, galleries of photographs.
  
• - Fund and activist site for a man killed by Portage, Michigan police officers after a teacher confused statements from Xianqing's daughter as accusations of molestation. Includes timeline, testimony, news and legislative updates, and media kit.
  
• - Sponsors activities to diminish prejudice and racial conflicts, and to enhance police-community relations. Information about Diallo's shooting, photograph gallery, and sponsored events and projects provided.
  
• - Editorial regarding police behavior in New York City and Los Angeles, with ideas for improving the balance between the police and regular citizens.
  
• - Amnesty International report on police brutality committed by New York City Police.
  
• - A unit of the Chicago Police Department allegedly tortured confessions out of dozens of suspects, including 10 who are now on death row. Some of them are getting another day in court.
  
• - Reports on police brutality in major cities across the United States, from Human Rights Watch.
  
• - Max Antoine is a 30-year-old Haitian-American who was left paralyzed, blind in one eye, and deaf in one ear when three Irvington, NJ, police officers severely beat him without probable cause.
  
• - Offers contact information and resources to activists wishing to repond to the authorities in Seattle who reacted violently toward protestors standing against World Trade Organization (WTO).
  
• - Resource about brutality and corruption in the New York City Police Department, and how to bring it under control.
  
• - In Hampton, Virginia, Medic/Firefighters are deliberately withholding and delaying care to minority patients who call 911, causing serious injury and death.
  
• - Discussions of profiling, brutality, and other aspects of racially-based police action from About.Com.
  
• - Commentary and picture of Philadelphia Police attack on man being placed under arrest.
  
• - A report from Human Rights watch, on the massive amount of police brutality in the US.
  
  

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