The Guardian • police
Issue #2044
Atlanta’s Cop City
In August 2021, the City of Atlanta shocked its citizens when it announced plans to construct a US $90m police training complex in the middle...
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Issue #2063
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: Police have been ordered not to report deaths amid protests against the rising cost of living. While police in Kenya have long been accused...
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Issue #2064
The US Prison in film: A Marxist View
In the “land of the free,” millions languish in prisons in the name of law and order. The prison, as an institution, is used by...
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Issue #2029
WEASEL WORDS
CARBON-NEUTRAL /ˌkɑː.bən ˈnjuː.trəl/ This is a good thing, right? It means that the thing which has been so described at least doesn’t add any more...
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Issue #2046
Queensland police under fire
The Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has begun to restructure the Queensland Police Service (QPS) in an attempt to eradicate the “significant problem” of sexism, racism,...
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Issue #2054
Queensland’s forensic debacle
On 16th May 2023, the Queensland Health Minister, Yvette D’Ath, announced that Queensland’s Health Forensic and Scientific Services (QFSS) have a backlog of more than...
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Issue #1982
Queensland police fight vaccine mandate
Members of the Queensland Police Service (QPS) have launched a legal challenge in the Supreme Court of Queensland (QSC) against a vaccine mandate issued by...
Read moreNSW police block efforts to protect remote Indigenous communities
It has been brought to light that one of NSW’s most senior police officers influenced the state government to reject proposed health measures designed to protect remote Indigenous communities.
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Issue #2058
US Police Violence
On 16th June the US Justice Department announced that the Minneapolis Police Department needed to be reformed. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division had launched...
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Issue #2064
The Police-Industrial-Complex
US citizens believe they have the right to representative democracy, freedom of speech, religious worship, a free press, and equality before the law with a...
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Issue #2035
Hear her voice
This article contains references to examples of experiences of First Nations peoples, and language that is disrespectful and offensive to their culture, history, people and...
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Issue #2047
Queensland police corruption report
In 1987 the Fitzgerald Inquiry, The Commission of Inquiry into Possible Illegal Activities and Associated Police Misconduct, began investigations into the corruption by the Queensland...
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Issue #2013
Anti-protest laws affect us all
Earlier this month, NSW police bungled a raid on Blockade Australia activists in the Colo Valley, in Sydney’s north-west. Activists at the remote camp noticed...
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Issue #2046
Queensland police to compile information on socialists, Marxists
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) is enlarging and strengthening reporting on individuals with “extremist” views and beliefs as a result of the December 2022 killings...
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Issue #2044
CRIMINALISING CHILDREN
Australian governments are quick to point the finger at human rights abuses in other countries, but Australia’s record is nothing short of disgraceful when it...
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