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Police Tactics

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Analysis
Trump’s New Order on Policing Seems Sweeping. But What Will It Really Change?
The president’s directive may please some law enforcement officials, but some experts say certain provisions are redundant and ignore how police agencies really work.
A police officer’s head and shoulders are silhouetted against a blue and purple background.
A photo shows a line of police officers standing on a corner while wearing riot gear and holding batons.
News March 12
Trump Is Backing Away From Police Reform. Here’s What That Means for 12 Places.
The administration appears set to end federal oversight of police, including agencies that have committed systemic civil rights violations.
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Sheriff Harold Pretel, a man with medium-toned skin, wearing a sheriff's uniform, sits in front of a blue background with a sheriff's star printed on it.
Cleveland March 4
Sheriff: Bodycam Footage From Cuyahoga County Deputies Will Now Come Out Within 7 Days
Policy shift follows a Marshall Project - Cleveland and News 5 Cleveland investigation into the October shooting of a teen by a deputy.
By , The Marshall Project, and Tara Morgan, News 5 Cleveland
A photo collage shows an old newspaper clipping with the headline “Justices Argue with Lawyers at Cleveland’s Frisk Hearing” with a black and white photo of Louis Stokes. On top of that photo is an old photo of police officers searching people against a car. On the far right, there are three orange traffic cones with an old photo of police officers behind the cones.
Cleveland December 19, 2024
How a 1963 Cleveland Case Shaped Stop-and-Frisk Police Tactics, and Why It Still Matters
Under Cleveland’s consent decree, police have to track each stop.
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An illustration shows a scene of protesters walking through a city, near other people who are not protesting. Around them are surveillance cameras, a drone and a police vehicle with an antenna. Two protesters in the foreground are wearing medical masks, one protester has a tattoo and another is holding a phone in her hand. The color scheme of the illustration features blue tones. Yellow boxes and lines highlight different ways a person can be surveilled.
Analysis November 12, 2024
The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
Privacy advocates worry banning masks at protests will encourage harassment, while cops’ high-tech tools render the rules unnecessary.
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A grid of illustrations representing eight different surveillance technologies. In the top row, from the left, there is an illustration of a figure walking, overlaid with yellow tracking lines; a surveillance camera, an arm with a tattoo highlighted by a yellow box; and a police vehicle with an antenna attached to a panel. The second row, from the left, shows an illustration of a location pin inside a ring of cell phones; a laptop with a fishing pole coming out of it with an icon of a person on the hook; the Instagram logo of a camera icon within a closeup of an eye, and a solar panel on a pole with a surveillance camera with a spotlight on a car. The color scheme of the illustration primarily includes blue and yellow tones with a black gradient.
Analysis November 12, 2024
The High-Tech Tools Police Can Use to Surveil Protesters
When Americans take to the streets to make their voices heard, they’re inevitably dragging their digital trails right along behind them.
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Three Black women looking pensive toward the right.
Life Inside August 16, 2024
A Mother on a Mission for Full Police Transparency
Troy, Alabama, police severely beat Ulysses Wilkerson when he was 17. Seven years later, his mom, Angela Williams, is still fighting for answers.
By Angela Williams as told to
A photo illustration shows the cover and black-and-white pages of “Rights in Conflict,” a book more commonly known as the Walker Report.
Looking Back August 14, 2024
How the 1968 DNC in Chicago Devolved into ‘Unrestrained and Indiscriminate Police Violence’
As protesters prepare for the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, a half-century old report provides lessons for preventing chaos.
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News July 18, 2024
Meet the New Generation of Unarmed First Responders in This New Podcast Series
“The Fifth Branch,” a podcast from The Marshall Project and Tradeoffs, examines new, alternative ways to respond to 911 crisis calls.
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A photograph shows a large group of students facing toward police wearing riot gear on a college campus. Some police officers are mounted on horses.
Analysis April 30, 2024
How Campus Protests Could Shape the 2024 Elections — And Not Just the Presidency
With hundreds of arrests and more campus standoffs looming, local law enforcement officials could face consequences at the ballot box.
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