Shutting down a venue doesn’t make [sex work] go away," Emi Koyama told Filter. "It displaces people ... and it becomes more ...

Last September, in Denver, Chrisanna Elser was informed that she had been caught on camera stealing a package. Local police sergeant Jamie Milliman showed up on her front doorstep, claiming to have ...

Police monitoring groups across London have criticised the Metropolitan Police as a ‘lost cause’ as levels of community trust in the institution decline across the capital. Recent data from the Mayors ...

The killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, MO in 2014, galvanized a renewed public interest in the concept of citizen policing, but for David Whitt, Michael Browns neighbor ...

Community Based Accountability, a DeCal taught by “grassroots volunteer group” Berkeley Copwatch, has welcomed the UC Berkeley community for 20 years.Amidst increased ICE activity nationwide, the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s 7 p.m. on Thursday and Elli, a 19-year-old transplant from Chattanooga, ...

The estate of a man shot and killed by Portland police, and whose death caused debate inside the bureau over whether the shooting was appropriate, has settled with the city for $3.75 million. A ...

Remembering a Portland legend, Dan Handelman: anti-war advocate, co-founder of Peace and Justice Works and the brain behind Portland Copwatch, died of a stroke at age 60. Credit: Courtesy photo by ...

For decades, Dan Handelman spent his Friday nights on the southwest corner of Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square. His weekly “rally for peace and justice,” which attracted a few dozen supporters, ...

Dan Handelman, a police accountability advocate whose meticulous documentation and public testimony shaped Portland’s approach to public safety reform for over three decades, died Wednesday after ...