In a year of violent police encounters, a 25-year-old movement to document law enforcement has new urgency. This is the story of Copwatch as told by Michael Brown’s neighbor and Freddie Gray’s friend.

Before opening statements begin next week, here’s everything you need to know about the Keffe D trial for the murder of Tupac Shakur. 8 hours ago But then a video was published. Cell phone camera ...

I was recently invited to participate in a new attempt to start a Copwatch grouping in Philadelphia. This is far from the first attempt in Philadelphia at forming a Copwatch group, and all attempts to ...

A version of this story originally appeared in the September issue of VICE magazine. Jose LaSalle always told his stepson Alvin: “Watch the cops.” So when three undercover NYPD officers stopped Alvin ...

There’s Jacob Crawford (co-founder) from Oakland, Calif., David Whitt (co-founder) from Ferguson, Mo., and Kevin Moore from Baltimore, Md., who captured Freddie Gray’s abuse by the police, and Ramsey ...

Reporting from FERGUSON, Mo. — Romana Williams was out patrolling this week with a thumb-size video camera clipped to the collar of her white T-shirt. As the short, gray-haired woman approached the ...

Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the bigger picture around the efforts to change policing by filming cops Camilla Hall tells some intimate personal stories, but loses the ...

Four amateur activists record public police behavior in order to prevent further killings by cops in this cursory, unenlightening doc. The topic of police brutality has taken on fresh urgency in ...