Police Accountability Report, hosted by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis, is a weekly show that seeks to expose and hold to account one of the most powerful institutions in this country—the police.
The show shines a critical light on all facets of American policing, exploring the systemic and political imperatives that put law enforcement at odds with the communities they purport to serve.
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Cops lied to put him in handcuffs, but a camera caught the truth
A Los Angeles man says he was targeted by police after he was pulled over for crossing a line in front of a stop sign; but after placing him in handcuffs and arresting the passenger in his car, a recording cellphone caught the real reason cops pulled him over.
Recent episodes
Cops told him the First Amendment doesn’t apply, then they arrested him to prove it.
The arrest of a cop watcher by Texas police raises serious questions about the rights of citizen journalists and the state of the First Amendment.
What corporate media got wrong about this brutal arrest caught on bodycam
The differences between how PAR and local media covered the arrest and tasering of a cab driver in Toledo, Ohio, are striking. We explore this discrepancy as an example of the ways mainstream media propagates official law enforcement narratives and runs cover for police overreach.
The feds want him to spend 20 years in jail for a single phone call, but their case is falling apart
The case of Baltimore business owner Sean Weston provides a stark example of our criminal justice system’s lack of equity. We also speak to James Gibson, a man who spent 29 years wrongfully imprisoned after being brutalized and tortured by Chicago police.
State doles out severe sentence for threatening speech while cops kill people with ketamine
With over 900 residents injected with ketamine while in police custody between 2018 and 2020, police in the state of Colorado have turned the public into “unwitting guinea pigs” of a deadly pharmacological experiment.
Another police killing in rural America, another case without accountability
The brutal killing of Tyler Rushing by Chico, California, police in 2017 is a revealing example of how little accountability police face in rural communities. PAR takes an in-depth look at the circumstances that led to his horrifying death at the hands of the police.
He refused to follow a cop’s illegal order and police have made his life hell ever since
Police demanded that a visually impaired passenger show them his identification, even though he was just sitting in a car. His refusal led to probation, monitoring, a $50,000 bail, and a relentless legal battle. But at the root of this story is the question of police power: how they wield it and why we grant it to them.
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