A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
By Gary Kamiya Mar 28, 2009
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Would a petite, left-leaning professorial type be taken seriously on the streets?
By Cary Tennis
April 15, 2009
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In its last episode, "The Shield" drops the curtain on its groundbreaking dirty-cop tragedy.
By Heather Havrilesky
November 26, 2008
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Men in blue in shades of gray -- this gritty movie rises above the standard corrupt-cop fare.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams
October 24, 2008
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Before Katrina, all I knew about New Orleans was Bourbon Street clichés. Then I got mugged there and fell for a local boy and the glorious city itself.
By Sarah Hepola
August 29, 2008
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"Lush Life," Price's latest tour of down-low urban America, is an acute portrait of the Darwinian adaptations required to survive in our city jungles.
By Richard B. Woodward
March 10, 2008
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Police have cracked down on funeral processions, a time-honored cultural tradition in the historic black neighborhood of Treme. But musicians vow to play on.
By Larry Blumenfeld
October 29, 2007
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She's a rootin'-tootin', two-gun-totin', perp-bashin' sheriff's deputy and I'm, like, where'd this come from?
By Cary Tennis
April 27, 2007
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Orange County defense lawyer: Cop above the law, stripper beneath it.
By Lynn Harris
February 14, 2007
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A collection of sad news stories that may make you question the theory of evolution.
By Carol Lloyd
February 1, 2007
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A chilling series of police department fumbles in Tampa.
By Catherine Price
January 30, 2007
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Smile: you're on elfdar!
By David Puner
December 12, 2006
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Cop rocks town through rap.
By David Puner
December 5, 2006
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British police find that some rape victims who believe they were drugged were actually just drunk. Does it matter?
By Carol Lloyd
November 16, 2006
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Musical condoms, feminist dance troupes, Martha Stewart disses women, Keith Olbermann calls Paris Hilton a slut and more in this wacky weekend edition.
By Page Rockwell
October 13, 2006
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Things are so bad here now, the TV warns us not to trust the police. And more and more people, like my cousin, must pay terrible visits to the morgue.
By Riverbend
April 3, 2006
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A New Jersey county board apparently is still able to sleep at night.
By Lynn Harris
December 21, 2005
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A court rules that Mumia Abu-Jamal can appeal his murder conviction on three separate grounds.
By Dave Lindorff
December 8, 2005
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A new report by Amnesty International focuses on police mistreatment of the LGBT community.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
November 17, 2005
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The G-8 protests came to nothing -- another victory for the U.S. crackdown on dissent.
By Michelle Goldberg
June 11, 2004
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State and local police are taking it upon themselves to investigate antiwar activists -- and in the computer age, the threat to our civil liberties is even greater than it was in Hoover's day.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 12, 2004
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In Miami, police unleashed unprecedented fury on demonstrators -- most of them seniors and union members. Is this how Bush's war on terror will be fought at home?
By Michelle Goldberg
December 16, 2003
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It's encouraging that Sting seems to have chugged a Red Bull-Viagra smoothie on some tracks of his new "Sacred Love" LP, but his didactic, smugly penitent music still seems designed to be played by an adulterer returning to Westchester in his Jag.
By Laura Sinagra
October 16, 2003
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HBO's morally complex, richly textured series "The Wire" is not just the best thing on TV -- it's a Homeric epic of modern America.
By Heather Havrilesky
July 12, 2003
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How Osama bin Laden caused the decline of DARE, the anti-drug program that brought you "Just Say No."
By Dan McGraw
August 19, 2002
Oakland mourns
I'm an academic woman but I want to be a cop
Damned for all time
"Pride and Glory"
Why I love the city that brutalized me
Richard Price's criminal intelligence
Band on the run in New Orleans
Good cop vs. slutty stripper
Floridian elfin magic
Uncertainty and horror in Baghdad
A victory for Mumia
A thousand J. Edgar Hoovers
"This is not America"
The soccer mom's sex symbol
Beyond good and evil in Baltimore
The fading war on drugs
War Room
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald