Honoring Attica After Half a Century

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : In the 50 years since Attica, law enforcement as a profession has sought to broaden its umbrella, to expand the brotherhood, and to bring other like-minded "officers" into the fold -- from security officers to parole officers to truant officers to TSA, Border Patrol, Rangers, Federal Marshals, and ICE.
47% : It's time to demand law enforcement accountability for the death of unarmed citizens not just on America's streets but also in our prisons.
46% : By 1971 it had begun to dawn on activists in cities and correctional facilities alike that law enforcement -- whether in inner-city school yards or rural prison yards -- when directed at Black and brown citizens too often resulted in injury or death and, therefore, should be made accountable in both places, simultaneously.
36% : From Ferguson to Minneapolis, it is clear that the United States has once again entered an era of rebellion against law enforcement violence and what has become a seemingly epidemic level of police killing of unarmed Black and brown residents of this nation --

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