Tag: US police
Northern Ireland’s police transformation may hold lessons for the US
Laura A. Weinstein, City University of New York and Donald Beaudette, Emory University
As citizens and officials across the U.S. consider whether and how to...
Teach police nonviolence, scholars say, and how to work with local...
Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona; James J. Nolan, West Virginia University; Jessica Maves Braithwaite, University of Arizona, and Kirssa Cline Ryckman, University of Arizona
Editor’s...
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...
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...
Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape...
Danielle K. Kilgo, Indiana University
A teenager held her phone steady enough
to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated...
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...
Can Atlanta’s new mayor revive America’s ‘black mecca’?
Maurice J. Hobson, Georgia State University
The Atlanta mayoral showdown between Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood was a political battle 30 years in the...
Real security requires strong encryption – even if investigators get blocked
Susan Landau, Tufts University
The FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice have been fighting against easy, widespread public access to encryption technologies for 25...
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How the stress of playing chess can be fatal
By Andrew Lane, University of Wolverhampton
The death of a chess player in the middle of a match at the world’s most prestigious competition may...
