Law Enforcement

The long history of entanglement between the Far Right and law enforcement has led to the normalization of violence in the U.S., thrown into stark relief by the January 6th insurrection.

As a new Biden administration aims to undo Trump’s harmful immigration policies, the ICE and Border Patrol unions are ready to wage public opposition to such policies, collaborating with other law enforcement unions to push their anti-immigrant agenda.

There are significant connections between racism and policing to the revolving door between law enforcement, military and the Far Right in Germany.

This memo will focus on how far-right movements may attempt to influence this period, what some analysts are calling the interregnum, and the likely consequences of their activities.

A close look at the rise of Massachusetts’s longest serving and most notorious sheriff who has become a close ally of the Trump administration.

Over the past decade, sectors on the Right have been making a concerted effort to mobilize county sheriffs to support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion. With COVID-19…

As the U.S. engages in a long overdue national conversation on law enforcement’s role in upholding White supremacy, PRA has mapped the significant influence of far-right and anti-immigrant networks on county sheriffs.

Updated 10.27.21: PRA and Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR) have created a map as a resource for activists, journalists and researchers, to place the threat of the far-right showing up at racial justice protests.

ReOpen America militarized protesters align with right-wing sheriffs to publicly oppose and defy restrictions issued by governors.

On February 10, 2020 seven Republican representatives in Mississippi introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that raises the possibility of a so-called Second Amendment Sanctuary region stretching from Oklahoma to West Virginia.