Policing & Incarceration

Top Marble Picks:

"The Death of George Floyd, In Context" (Jelani Cobb, Article)
The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale, Book)
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Andrea Ritchie, Book)
“13th" (Ava Duvernay by Netflix, Documentary)
"Just Mercy" (Bryan Stevenson, Film)

Articles

Mass Incarceration in America, Explained in 22 Maps and Charts
Lopez, German
2016, Vox
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/7/13/8913297/mass-incarceration-maps-charts

In New York, Major Crime Complaints fell when Cops took a break from "Proactive Policing"
Khan, Amina
2017, Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-proactive-policing-crime-20170925-story.html?_amp=true

What is Rikers Island?
Schwirtz, Michael
2017, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/nyregion/rikers-island-prison-new-york.html

Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
Kushner, Rachel
2019, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/magazine/prison-abolition-ruth-wilson-gilmore.html

*The Police Can't Solve the Problem. They are the Problem.
Purnell, Derecka, & Marbre Stahly-Butts
2019, The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opinion/the-police-cant-solve-the-problem-they-are-the-problem.html

More Cops, Is It the Answer to Fighting Crime?
Weichselbaum, Simone, & Wendi C. Thomas
2019, USA Today
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2818056002

Growing the LAPD was Gospel at City Hall. George Floyd Changed That
Rainey, James, Dakota Smith, & Cindy Chang
2020, Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-06-05/eric-garcetti-lapd-budget-cuts-10000-officers-protests?_amp=true

1,034 People Have Been Shot and Killed by Police in the Past Year
The Washington Post
2020, The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/

Books

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson
2007

*The New Jim Crow
Alexander, Michelle
2010

*Are Prisons Obsolete?
Davis, Angela Y.
2011

*Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Stevenson, Bryan
2014

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
Camp, Jordan T., & Christina Heatherton
2016

Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Ritchie, Andrea
2017

The End of Policing
Vitale, Alex S.
2017

Chokehold: Policing Black Men
Butler, Paul
2018

Documentaries

13th
DuVernay, Ava
2016, Netflix

*Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Carter, Shawn "Jay-Z", Rose Schlossberg, Mark Konkol, & Julia Willoughby-Nason
2017, Netflix

Podcast

Justice in America
Smith, Clint, & Josie Duffy Rice
2020, The Appeal
https://theappeal.org/topics/justice-in-america/

Videos

Michelle Alexander on the New Jim Crow, at Union Theological Seminary
Alexander, Michelle
2015, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T79I1PLT5Ks

Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
Davis, Kate, & David Heilbroner
2015, HBO
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/say-her-name-the-life-and-death-of-sandra-bland

A Conversation Between Michelle Alexander & Angela Davis
Davis, Angela, & Michelle Alexander
2017, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixX4HfOiVPo

*American Son
Demos-Brown, Christopher, & Kenny Leon
2019, Netflix

When They See Us
DuVernay, Ava, Julian Breece, et al
2019, Netflix

Just Mercy
Stevenson, Bryan, Destin Daniel Cretton, et al
2019
https://www.justmercyfilm.com

Defund Police: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Says Budgets Wrongly Prioritize Cops Over Schools, Hospitals
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta
2020, Democracy Now!
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/1/keeanga_yamahtta_taylor_defund_us_police

*Highly Recommended