by Mandie Sellars | Jul 1, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Noah Mlyn “Deadly Discretion: The Failure of Police Use of Force Policies to Meet Fundamental International Human Rights Law and Standards,” published this week by the University of Chicago’s International Human Rights Clinic, evaluates the use of force policies in...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 28, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director I was 16 years old, living in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. I was in the car with my mother, on a dark road, picking my father up from his second shift job. Two police officers pulled us over for a trumped up traffic violation. We were...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 13, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director As Sam Cooke sang — a change is gonna come. Never have these words been more true in my lifetime. Never have I been more sure that a radical reimagining and rebuilding of the American criminal justice system is...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 13, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
by Aneesha Tucker, EmancipateNC Intern Dignity in Schools is launching a vision called “Counselors Not Cops: Ending the Regular Presence of Law Enforcement” that imagines an alternative to the regular occupation of law enforcement in schools. The data on arrests and...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 9, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Mass Incarceration, Policing
A North Carolina Superior Court judge announced a ruling in favor of plaintiffs today, finding that plaintiffs were likely to win their claim that people incarcerated in North Carolina prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic are being held under unconstitutional...
by Mandie Sellars | Jun 4, 2020 | Emancipate NC News, Policing
No matter where you live in North Carolina, we encourage you to use this moment to contact your local city council members to demand change. City Council members have the power to make lasting policy changes that will reduce police violence. You can use and adapt our...
