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Whether it’s a Black American or a cop, senseless death is a tragedy
News of a Seattle police officer being killed while helping a motorist should remind us of our shared humanity.
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Seattle police had a chance to prove abolitionists wrong. They didn’t.
The department's inability to change over the past year has shown that its problems are hardwired into policing, and reform is not working.
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Reforms aren’t enough to end ‘us vs. them’ policing in America
Confronting modern policing’s roots in medieval England and American slavery will do more to make us all safer.
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New columnist Clyde W. Ford on speaking up and raising eyebrows
He’s already written about racism’s intersections with gun control, the insurance industry and Amazon — and he wants to spark more conversations.
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Trial judges must reject campaign money from police in Washington
Since 2010, at least 42 state judicial campaigns accepted money from police and guilds representing them. That hurts public confidence.