Deets On The Police Timeline (In Progress)
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A (semi)comprehensive chronological collection of links related to The Police.
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Deets On The Police Timeline
Miles Davis on Getting Stopped By The Police – The Dick Cavett Show October 7, 1986
LYNCHING: FLORIDA’S BRUTAL DISTINCTION - Orlando Sentinel March 7, 1993
LAPD gets M-16s – CNN September 22, 1997
ACLU Urges CA Appeals Court to Declare Use of Pepper Spray Dangerous and Cruel - ACLU August 12, 1999
Reconstruction and Its Aftermath – LIBRARY OF CONGRESS March 1, 2000
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops - ABC News September 8, 2000
Detailed Discussion of Police Shooting Pets - Animal Legal & Historical Center 2002
The Civil War: The Senate’s Story – UNITED STATES SENATE May 6, 2011
This Is the Pepper Spray Police Used on UC Davis Protesters (Updated) - GIZMODO November 21, 2011
Why Do Police Officers Use Pepper Spray? - WIRED November 22, 2011
How Private Prisons Game the Immigration System – The Nation February 27, 2013
What Is Juneteenth? – PBS | The Root October 18, 2013
A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing - EKU Online January 7, 2014
Death Penalty – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver May 5, 2014
Prison – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver July 21, 2014
Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver August 18, 2014
For Parents Of Young Black Men With Autism, Extra Fear About Police – NPR August 23, 2014
Obama Ends Secure Communities Program That Helped Hike Deportations – NBC News November 21, 2014
"Cop - Pepper Spray / Riot Gear" by Tony Webster under CC BY 2.0
Police vs. Occupiers: How dangerous is pepper spray? | The Week Staff - The Week January 8, 2015
Autistic 6-year-old shot, killed during police pursuit in Louisiana, report says – CBS News February 4, 2015
Police use of force not always black and white – PBS NewsHour February 20, 2015
Why Reconstruction Matters – The New York Times March 28, 2015
Reconstruction – National Park Service May 14, 2015
Reconstruction | United States history – Britannica June 18, 2015
Mandatory Minimums – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver July 27, 2015
Juneteenth – Britannica September 6, 2015
Mass Incarceration Has Become the New Welfare – The Atlantic September 16, 2015
Woman killed by police had viral autism-awareness video – CBS News February 5, 2016
Transgender man with Asperger’s killed by Mesa, Arizona, police – CNN February 6, 2016
African-Americans With Autism Face Additional Challenges – NPR February 21, 2016
Lethal In Disguise: The Health Hazards Of Pepper Spray | Contributor - Forbes March 16, 2016
Police trained on how to respond to people with autism – CNN April 1, 2016
This nonspeaking teenager wrote an incredibly profound letter explaining autism – The Washington Post May 19, 2016
Reconstruction | Part 1 – PBS June 19, 2016
Reconstruction | Part 2 – PBS June 19, 2016
Report finds racial disparities in police use of force – PBS NewsHour July 9, 2016
North Miami Police Officers Shoot Man Aiding Patient With Autism – The New York Times July 21, 2016
North Miami Officer Was Aiming At Man With Autism, Union Chief Says – NPR July 22, 2016
What It Feels Like To Be An Autistic Person of Color in the Eyes of the Police – Daily Beast July 25, 2016
Police Accountability – Last Week Tonight with John Oliver October 3, 2016
US police shoot dogs so often that a Justice Department expert calls it an “epidemic” - QUARTZ December 23, 2016
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