Police Brutality

In movies and TV shows, you sometimes see officers plant evidence. They know they want to arrest someone, but they haven’t caught them in the act. The officer intentionally plants the evidence, pretends to “find” it, and then makes the arrest. But is this just...

Police officers have a crucial responsibility to serve and protect civilians from harm. Unfortunately, some officers fail in their duties and even become a source of danger to people. Civilians should know that officers always have options to neutralize threats...

Muslim women who wear hijabs do so for religious reasons, and it’s considered improper for them to expose their hair to men outside of certain immediate family members. Unfortunately, that puts many hijabi women in direct conflict with the authorities when they’re...

The police are meant to be a body you can call on to protect you. To protect you when someone else threatens to harm you, has harmed you, stolen your possessions and so much more. While police officers certainly do this, sometimes they are the ones who harm others....

While the police are legally obligated to carry out their duties in a fair and respectful manner, it’s not always the case. Some law enforcement officers overstep their mandate or abuse the authority bestowed upon them, leading to unjust treatment of civilians. You...

Concerns surrounding the use of excessive force by law enforcement agencies have sparked widespread discussions on the boundaries of police conduct. While the police are allowed to use reasonable force in some circumstances, what exactly constitutes excessive force,...

When people being subdued by the police cry out that they can’t breathe, why do the police often seem indifferent? Some officers believe that it isn’t possible to talk if you can’t breathe and dismiss the complaints as lies. Unfortunately, that isn’t true. In other...

Technology continues to march forward. Cameras are everywhere – security cameras, doorbell cams and cellphones mean that cameras are almost always available when something of interest happens. When it comes to police violence, just having that footage has been a...

In 2014, the United States Department of Justice and the Albuquerque Police Department entered into a consent decree. The Justice Department had found "reasonable cause to believe that APD engages in a pattern or practice of use of excessive force, including deadly...

According to MappingPoliceViolence.org, New Mexico stands only behind Wyoming in the rate of police killings per capita. The nonprofit project says that police in New Mexico killed 32 people last year. The projects record all instances where an on- or off-duty police...