Stolen Lives Project
{{Short description|Police watchdog group}}
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| formation = 1990
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The Stolen Lives Project is a watchdog group for deaths from police brutality in the United States. The group collects data on people who have died from the police and Border Patrol. Current supporters of the group include the National Lawyers Guild, the Anthony Baez Foundation, and the Center for Constitutional Rights.{{Cite web|title=Stolen Lives|url=http://www.democracynow.org/1999/10/22/stolen_lives|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Democracy Now!|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Ross|first=Cody T.|date=2015-11-05|title=A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011–2014|journal=PLOS ONE|language=en|volume=10|issue=11|pages=e0141854|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0141854|issn=1932-6203|pmc=4634878|pmid=26540108|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1041854R|doi-access=free}}
History
The Stolen Lives project was created in 1990 in response to inaccurate public reporting of deaths due to police brutality and a lack of a nationwide body dedicated to reporting police brutality deaths.{{Cite web|title=Freedom Archives Search Engine: Stolen Lives Killed and Brutalized by Police|url=https://search.freedomarchives.org/search.php?view_collection=1007&no_digital=1&year=?&keyword%5B%5D=US+Border+Patrol+(La+Migra)&title=Stolen+Lives+Killed+and+Brutalized+by+Police|access-date=2021-07-03|website=search.freedomarchives.org}}{{Cite journal|last=Duran|first=Robert J.|date=2017|title=A Call to Disrupt Institutional Racism: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in the Criminal Justice System|url=https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/bitstream/handle/1969.1/188519/A%20Call%20to%20Disrupt%20Institutional%20Racism%20-%20Duran.pdf?sequence=1|journal=ACJS Today|volume=17|pages=36–40}}{{Cite web|date=2018-05-08|title=OPINION - Death by Sonoma County Sheriffs|url=https://www.sonomacountygazette.com/sonoma-county-news/opinion-death-by-sonoma-county-sheriffs/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Sonoma County Gazette|language=en-US}} In an attempt to improve accountability, SLP encourages people to send photographs, names, and narrative accounts of individuals killed by the police, and has won awards for its thorough documentation of police brutality.{{Cite journal|last1=Bryant-Davis|first1=Thema|last2=Adams|first2=Tyonna|last3=Alejandre|first3=Adriana|last4=Gray|first4=Anthea A.|date=2017|title=The Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Ethnic Minorities|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/josi.12251|journal=Journal of Social Issues|language=en|volume=73|issue=4|pages=852–871|doi=10.1111/josi.12251|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|last=Kolsy|first=Uzma|date=2013-11-05|title=Are Today's Cops Too Quick to Shoot?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/11/are-todays-cops-too-quick-to-shoot/281159/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=The Atlantic|language=en}} In the 1990s, the Stolen Lives Project documented approximately 200 police killings per year.{{Cite journal|last=Drake|first=Jarrett M.|date=2014|title=Insurgent citizens: the manufacture of police records in post-Katrina New Orleans and its implications for human rights|url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10502-014-9224-2|journal=Archival Science|language=en|volume=14|issue=3–4|pages=365–380|doi=10.1007/s10502-014-9224-2|s2cid=143921131|issn=1389-0166|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|title=After a Police Shooting, One Father's Quest for Justice Sets a Precedent|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/after-a-police-shooting-one-fathers-quest-for-justice-sets-a-precedent-v23n6/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Vice.com|date=12 September 2016 |language=en}}
Activity
The Stolen Lives Project, along with other police brutality watchdog groups, has organized a national day of protest against police brutality since 1996.{{Cite web|title=STOP POLICE BRUTALITY, REPRESSION AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF A GENERATION!|url=https://www.october22.org/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.october22.org}}{{Cite web|title=National Day Against Police Brutality being commemorated in Newark|url=http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/oct/17/national-day-against-police-brutality-being-commem/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=amsterdamnews.com|date=17 October 2019 }} Every year, the project holds a ceremony to present families of victims with certificates recognizing their loss.{{Cite web|last1=Sosin|first1=Clarissa|last2=Khan|first2=Daryl|date=2019-01-09|title=New York Activist Against Police Shootings Laid to Rest|url=https://jjie.org/2019/01/09/new-york-activist-against-police-shootings-laid-to-rest/|access-date=2021-07-03|website=Juvenile Justice Information Exchange|language=en-US}} The Stolen Lives book published a print version of the group's database; the second edition was published in 1999.{{Cite web|title=Stolen Lives Project|url=https://www.stolenlives.org/#:~:text=Stolen%20Lives%20Project&text=The%20mission%20of%20the%20Stolen,which%20was%20published%20in%201999.|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.stolenlives.org}}{{Cite book|last=Stolen Lives Project|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43686900|title=Stolen lives: killed by law enforcement.|date=1999|publisher=Stolen Lives Project|isbn=978-0-9675136-2-1|location=New York, N.Y. (P.O. Box 2627, New York 10009)|language=English|oclc=43686900}} Further updates on the second edition were provided in the 2000s, in addition to state-specific versions.{{Cite web|title=Stolen Lives Project Updates|url=https://www.stolenlives.org/updates.html|access-date=2021-07-03|website=www.stolenlives.org}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.stolenlives.org/ Stolen Lives Project]
Category:Police brutality in the United States
Category:Protests against police brutality