Tag: Policing
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect...
Justin Nix, University of Nebraska Omaha
Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020.
Supreme Court affirms tribal police authority over non-Indians
Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the sovereign power of American Indian tribes on June...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and...
Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police...
Police academies dedicate 3.21% of training hours to ethics and other...
Galia Cohen, Tarleton State University
Police academies provide little training in the kinds of skills necessary to meet officers’...
Derek Chauvin trial begins in George Floyd murder case: 5 essential...
Catesby Holmes, The Conversation
The trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd is...
Federal agents sent to Kenosha, but history shows militarized policing in...
Angélica Durán-Martínez, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left...
High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, American University
Video of police in riot gear clashing with unarmed protesters in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by...
Militarization has fostered a policing culture that sets up protesters as...
Tom Nolan, Emmanuel College
The unrest sparked by the death of George Floyd after being pinned to the ground by the knee of a Minneapolis...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
