Media Issues
Executions carried out in Virginia, Missouri and Oklahoma
By Kate Randall, March 24, 2000
The most recent US executions took place in the states of Virginia, Missouri and Oklahoma, bringing the number of death row inmates put to death this year to 27. Since the death penalty was reinstated...
The killing of Patrick Dorismond: New York police violence escalates in wake of Diallo verdict
By Bill Vann, March 22, 2000
Less than one month after the acquittal of four New York City police officers in the fatal shooting of Amadou Diallo, new acts of murderous violence by the city's police force have made it clear that ...
US government report reveals growing numbers of children in adult prisons
By Larry Roberts, March 18, 2000
On February 27 the US Justice Department released a report, Profile of State Prisoners Under 18, 1985-97, revealing that the number of children sentenced to adult prisons more than doubled between 198...
A letter on the Los Angeles Police Department scandal
March 17, 2000
A reader in LA 16 March 2000
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 4 of a series
By Don Knowland and Gerardo Nebbia, March 16, 2000
We conclude today our series on the scandal in the Los Angeles Police Department.
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 3 of a series
By Don Knowland and Gerardo Nebbia, March 15, 2000
We continue today our series on the scandal in the Los Angeles Police Department. Part 1 appeared on Monday, March 13; part 2 on Tuesday, March 14. The fourth and concluding installment will be publis...
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 2 of a series
By Don Knowland and Gerardo Nebbia, March 14, 2000
The testimony of former Los Angeles police officer Rafael Perez about widespread police frame-ups and corruption has so far been limited mostly to the Rampart Division of the Los Angeles Police Depart...
The Los Angeles police scandal and its social roots
Part 1 of a series
By Don Knowland and Gerardo Nebbia, March 13, 2000
Substantially more information has been made public in the Los Angeles Police Department corruption and frame-up scandal. News reports have revealed a widespread pattern of unjustified arrests, beatin...
The Abner Louima case: three New York cops guilty in cover-up of torture
By Bill Vann, March 9, 2000
A federal court jury in Brooklyn convicted three New York City cops March 6 of conspiring to cover up the 1997 stationhouse torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima.
Five days after the Diallo verdict
New York plainclothes cop kills unarmed Bronx man
By Alan Whyte, March 3, 2000
Only days after a jury in Albany, New York acquitted four plainclothes policemen in the February 1999 killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo, a plainclothes cop shot and killed a 23-year-old ...
More letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
March 2, 2000
Dear editors of WSWS,
Letters on the Amadou Diallo verdict
February 29, 2000
I've just learned of the pathetic verdict concerning these undercover policemen shooting and killing an innocent (very young) black boy. I am completely amazed at the fact that the jury didn't take in...
