Police Reform Is On The Ballot In Minneapolis. But It’s About More Than Defunding The Police.
On June 7, 2020, in the wake of the high-profile murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, nine members of...
Police Reform
What The Latest Crime Data Can — And Can’t — Tell Us
This week, the FBI released nationwide crime numbers from 2020 that will likely contribute to the already tense political debate...
A Year After George Floyd
On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, sparking a wave of protests across the world....
What Has — And Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd Was Murdered
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): Tuesday marks the...
Why A Guilty Verdict For Derek Chauvin Doesn’t Change The Reality Of Police Violence
The murder trial for Derek Chauvin was notable in many ways. Not only was it significant to George Floyd’s family,...
Why Serious Changes To Policing Are So Unlikely To Happen
In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew discusses how public opinion of the Black Lives Matter movement...
Politics Podcast: How Opinion On Policing Has Changed Since Last Summer
A Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer shot and killed Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, after a traffic stop on...
How Views On Black Lives Matter Have Changed — And Why That Makes Police Reform So Hard
Daunte Wright was driving in his car through Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, two days ago when police officers pulled him over...
