Tag: Police brutality
Police presence on school grounds poses potential risks to kids
Elizabeth K. Anthony, Arizona State University
In fall 2020, I got an email from the Phoenix Elementary School District...
From Rodney King to George Floyd, how video evidence can be...
Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado Boulder
News media coverage of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd...
Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make...
How the images of John Lewis being beaten during ‘Bloody Sunday’...
Aniko Bodroghkozy, University of Virginia
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus...
5 reasons police officers should have college degrees
Leana Bouffard, Iowa State University and Gaylene Armstrong, University of Nebraska Omaha
Following several deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of police, President...
Police unions are one of the biggest obstacles to transforming policing
Jill McCorkel, Villanova University
Protesters and community organizers are increasingly calling for defunding and disbanding the police as a way to end police violence.
Advocates argue...
What colleges and universities can do to improve police-community relations
Brian N. Williams, University of Virginia
In the wake of the death of George Floyd – and the protests that it has sparked around the...
The good-guy image police present to students often clashes with students’...
F. Chris Curran, University of Florida; Aaron Kupchik, University of Delaware, and Benjamin W. Fisher, University of Louisville
Eight days after George Floyd was killed...