Included here are a variety of pieces that relate to prisons, police, and the enforcement of laws in the United States.

DNA Testing and Social Control (August 8, 1999) A look at how government moves to compile "DNA Databases" is really about controlling people.

A review of Marc Mauer's Race to Incarcerate (August 11, 1999) This book looks at the disturbing rate of imprisonment in the U.S.

Busch, Diallo, and Waco (September 1, 1999) A comparison between how the media usually treats cases of police brutality compared to the controversy surrounding the 1993 siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

For a Sneak Preview of a future American Police State...(October 11, 1999) A review of Christian Parenti's excellent book Lockdown American: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. This appeared on page 20 of the November 1999 issue of Agenda.

It is hard to view "Black like who?" as serious journalism (December 21, 1999) A response to Debra Dickerson's December 21, 1999 column at salon.com.

Do the police serve communities or government? (February 23, 2000) I wrote this for a journal for a class of mine. It is a bit rough but still worth reading IMHO.

No More Doubt (April 18, 2000) How a single incident on April 16 made the issue of police brutality perfectly clear to me. I wrote this for indymedia.org but you can read it on my site by clicking here.

The Iron Heel in Two Countries (June 12, 2000) Police represion of anti-Organization of the American States protesters in Windsor and Detroit.

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