Tag: Policing
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...
The unintended consequences of marijuana decriminalization
Nikolay Anguelov, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
America’s decades-long war on drugs disproportionately harmed minorities. Now, it seems that decriminalization of marijuana hasn’t leveled the playing...
What policing during the pandemic can tell us about crime rates...
Tom Nolan, Emmanuel College
Social distancing orders in place across the U.S. have added to the long list of low-level offenses that police are charged...
College-educated cops enforce the law more aggressively
Richard Wright, Georgia State University; Richard Rosenfeld, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Thaddeus L. Johnson, Georgia State University
In the wake of controversial and widely...
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The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
