Daryl Gates

The very features that made the LAPD appear more professional also expanded its reach and capacity for violence.

DARE lost its once hegemonic influence over drug education, but it had long-lasting effects on American policing, politics, and culture.

Leading gangs in Los Angeles were making peace as the city burned. How the city failed them rewrites our understanding of that moment.

The police are an insulated political institution within cities empowered to enforce a racialized social order.

Thirty years after the police beating of Rodney King, it's clear that shock and anger don't translate into meaningful reform.

How calls for “real reforms” have resulted in measures that further shield police from real accountability.

Rap group N.W.A. understood vulgarity and controversy were necessary to draw attention to police brutality.

SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat violent events. Since then, the specialized teams have morphed into something very different.

The causes were many, but police brutality and economic insecurity were supercharged in Los Angeles after the 1984 Olympics. 

Efforts to target immigrants amid the 1992 L.A. Uprising point to what deportations might look like under Trump 2.0.

The program was about education. But it was also about surveillance.

The rifle is a consumer product to which advertisers successfully attached an identity—one that has translated to a particularly intractable politics.

The history of unarmed police brutality is rooted in anti-Blackness.

The loudest opponents to police funding were once fiscal conservatives.

Set the Night on Fire isn't just a portrait of a city in upheaval. It's a history of uprisings for civil rights, against poverty, and for a better world.

Revisiting the timeless 1992 debut from Dr. Dre, a historic moment in hip-hop that redefined West Coast rap.

Becoming an agency that wouldn't dream of advertising on Breitbart will require deep changes.