Don’t shoot
America’s police kill too many people. But some forces are showing how smarter, less aggressive policing gets results
IN THE basement of St Gregory’s church in Crown Heights, a Brooklyn neighbourhood where kosher pizzerias compete with jerk-chicken shacks for business, the officers of the 77th precinct are giving away colouring books for children. “Police officers are your friends,” the book’s title proclaims. Around the city, protests at the decision not to prosecute the officer who choked Eric Garner to death suggested that plenty of New Yorkers did not agree.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Don’t shoot”
From the December 13th 2014 edition
Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents
Explore the edition
America’s poster-in-chief is very, very online
Compared with his first term, Donald Trump writes less about the economy and more about himself
Expect more chaos in Donald Trump’s tariff policies
He will likely zig-zag in response to markets and Republican dissent
Donald Trump hopes to become a one-man deregulator
He wants to revoke federal rules faster than ever but will meet resistance
How Donald Trump plans to ramp up deportations
A gusher of funds from Congress could accelerate removals
How courts might stop Donald Trump’s attack on civil society
A recent unanimous Supreme Court case augurs a showdown
Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?
Congress is inert, but a deft Supreme Court might contain him