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Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story

The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color

by Longreads August 3, 2017February 22, 2023

Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction

The War on Drugs Is a War on Women of Color

by Longreads August 3, 2017February 22, 2023

Women of color are disproportionately targeted by the war on drugs and broken windows policing.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

In the 1970s, It Was The Police That Made Made Detroit’s Streets Deadly

by Aaron Gilbreath April 12, 2017October 19, 2022

A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

The Case for More Female Cops

by Longreads July 26, 2016October 19, 2022

Nearly nine out of ten cops are men. Sarah Smarsh discusses the police force’s gender problem and a Wichita woman’s efforts inside the criminal justice system that failed her.

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