Society / Police

Articles about Police, ordered by date. Open 'Police' in the New Internationalist magazine app for Android or iOS mobile devices.

Making friends at the Bomana Prison, in Port Moresby City, Papua New Guinea in December 2017.Photo: Marc Dozier/Hemis/Alamy

Beyond punishment

Can we create a world where we don’t turn to police and prisons for justice? Amy Hall explores the movement offering a different vision for the future.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
536 - March, 2022
Defiantly demanding change in Brooklyn, New York.Photo: Saanya Ali/Majority World

Care not cops

Amy Hall on why defunding police departments could lead to more caring communities.

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NI 528 - A caring economy - November, 2020
528 - November, 2020
In the US, police often decide who has the right to demonstrate and who doesn’t. In this case riot police in Durham, North Carolina form an armed phalanx to control people attempting to protest against a white nationalist rally.Photo: Jason Miczek / Reuters

Whose streets?

The current clampdown on popular rights mirrors a profound malaise with our system of top-down political representation, argues Richard Swift.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017
508 - December, 2017
The spirit of creative resistence is strong in the Rio favela of Maré. But Brazil is suffering a ‘genocide’ of black youth.Photo: Vanessa Baird

‘We have a lot to teach the city’

What does ‘the state’ mean to you if you are poor or black or both? Vanessa Baird reports on life down-and-out in post-coup São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro

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NI 506 - Brazil's soft coup - October, 2017
506 - October, 2017

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Abolition March, 2022
A caring economy November, 2020
Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent December, 2017
Brazil's soft coup October, 2017
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