How Police Harassed and Infiltrated Civil Rights Groups Efforts to surveil and undermine activists went far beyond infamous operations such as Cointelpro.

Police infiltration of civil-rights movements created a durable blueprint for modern political policing, shaping today’s surveillance and retaliatory enforcement tactics. #Trump #CivilRights #COINTELPRO #PoliceSurveillance #Authoritarianism #MovementSafety #NewRepublic