In a year of violent police encounters, a 25-year-old movement to document law enforcement has new urgency. This is the story of Copwatch as told by Michael Brown’s neighbor and Freddie Gray’s friend.

There’s a moment late in Camilla Hall’s Copwatch when a rare officer of color from the Ferguson Police Department engages a group of copwatchers, a term used for local, autonomous groups who document ...

A version of this story originally appeared in the September issue of VICE magazine. Jose LaSalle always told his stepson Alvin: “Watch the cops.” So when three undercover NYPD officers stopped Alvin ...

I was recently invited to participate in a new attempt to start a Copwatch grouping in Philadelphia. This is far from the first attempt in Philadelphia at forming a Copwatch group, and all attempts to ...

Baltimore activist Kevin Moore and videographers of police brutality are the subject of a new documentary premiering this month. Members of Copwatch on patrol. (Courtesy photo) Moore is the witness ...