Last Saturday sixteen year old Kimani Gray was shot seven times (at least three times in the back) by two police officers in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Although the police report recovering a .38 caliber pistol from the scene, at least one eyewitness has claimed Kimani was unarmed. In the days since the shooting, community residents and activists from throughout the city have been demonstrating in East... 

April 4, 20125:00 pmto6:00 pm    In the seventh session of our Brooklyn College Socialist Shorts, we will be having a discussion with the SP-USA chair, Billy Wharton.  Bring a friend, pull up a chair, and join the discussion! Read Billy Wharton’s article on the NYPD shock doctrine here. Wednesday, Apr. 4th 2012, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Starbucks off of Brooklyn College 33 Hillel Pl, Brooklyn,... 

by Billy Wharton New statistics issued by the New York Police Department (NYPD) place the city at the top of the list of civil rights violators in the U.S. The department’s controversial policy of “Stop and Frisk,” or UF-250, produced more than 600,000 police stops in 2010. Police claim this policy has resulted in a drop in crime, while civil rights advocates see it as a tool for racial profiling... 

by Billy Wharton This week, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg came face-to-face with a thoroughly frightening notion. What if the numbers do not work? What if the reality that people in our city live in cannot be reduced to a neat series of computations? The crime stats from the Giuliani regime, it seems, may have been cooked. Several high-raking police officials now admit that they distorted crime statistics...