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Law Enforcement

Public Eye
The Repercussions of Politicized Law Enforcement
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.
Article
Political Research Associates
Why the Far Right Flourishes in German Police and Military
There are significant connections between racism and policing to the revolving door between law enforcement, military and the Far Right in Germany.
Article
Political Research Associates
What to Expect Around the 2020 Elections
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.
Report
Public Eye
How a Massachusetts Sheriff Became the Far Right’s Perfect Ally
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.
Article
Political Research Associates
A PRA Webinar Roundtable
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…
Webinar
Political Research Associates
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.
Data Viz / Map
Political Research Associates
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.
Data Viz / Map
Political Research Associates
ReOpen Protestors Turn to Constitutional Sheriffs to Defy State Policies
ReOpen America militarized protesters align with right-wing sheriffs to publicly oppose and defy restrictions issued by governors.
Article
Political Research Associates
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.
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Political Research Associates
This wave of Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions and ordinances reflect the contemporary growth of CSPOA’s ideology.
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