Jody Armour of the USC Gould School was quoted by Los Angeles Times on the value of protesting injustice in wealthier parts of the city. “We’ve seen for so long that the cost of injustice has been limited to certain communities and geographic areas. Now, with these marches, we are Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the value of this year’s Juneteenth in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. “Here in L.A., we walk down Skid Row, on the fiercest expression of structural violence in the country, with the largest homeless encampment in the Read more…
MEL Magazine featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the call to defund the police. He was also featured in CNET on how videos of brutality changed our view of police and quoted in ESPN’s The Undefeated on the NFL’s hypocrisy regarding Colin Kaepernick. “That’s not just a Read more…
KCRW-FM featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on his recommendations for law enforcement reform. “We [in California] have the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill of Rights, which makes it really difficult for researchers and journalists to document and analyze misconduct. They create substantial barriers for communities seeking to address Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the significance of Juneteenth, especially during this year’s Black Lives Matter protests. “Juneteenth was, for me, always my Fourth of July, my Independence Day. Remember, this country was founded on a promise of liberty for all, but that Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on meaningful steps to take toward police reform, including establishing a national database for terminated law enforcement officers. He was also featured in LAist. “Police reform, relationships in general, require trust. Going forward, the No. 1 Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the need to create real change by addressing actual racial inequality. He was also featured on KCRW-FM and quoted in The Guardian. “Often, what we do after an incident like [the death of George Floyd] Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the need to dismantle institutional racism. “Institutional racism goes to what banks will loan what money to what customers, what neighborhoods they will make mortgage loans in.” Jody Armour Tweet Read the full article
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the steps American society must take to dismantle systemic racism. He was also featured in The Nation. “It seems we’re figuring out that you can’t solve these problems technologically with body cams, or with de-escalation Read more…
USA Today featured an op-ed by Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on why the focus should be on reforming law enforcement, not defunding it. He was also interviewed on KPCC-FM. If you strip police funds, the first cuts will be community interaction programs that require humanity and commitment, Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on if the actions of the Minneapolis police are a local issue or emblematic of a national issue with policing. “It’s time for a hard look, and a hard review, by an independent body of the Read more…
Univision News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the history of protests and pushback against structural racism in America. “What we are seeing is the culmination of 400 years of oppression and resistance,” he said. Armour was also quoted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV will feature a virtual town hall on rooting out racism that will include Jody Armour of the USC Gould School, Najuma Smith-Pollard of the USC Cecil Murray Center and Erroll Southers of the USC Price School. NBCLA’s Virtual Town Hall, “The Time is Now: Read more…
NBC News featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on why President Donald Trump’s threat of invoking the Insurrection Act would undo decades of law enforcement reforms. “We don’t need to be telling people that we’re going to dominate them. That language doesn’t work. It just reinforces where we Read more…
CNBC featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the additional charges filed against the four police officers involved in the George Floyd case. “It signals to the country at large that the prosecution takes what happened in this case, the death of George Floyd, seriously.” Jody Armour Tweet Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour on the protests in response to the murder of George Floyd. “There are some grievances here that are legitimate; the Floyd tape tore a scab off some festering wounds that haven’t completely healed.” Jody Armour Tweet Read the full article
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV interviewed on-air Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the relationship between law enforcement and people of color in America. “We have a long way to go as it relates to police relations and people of color. Having served most of my career Read more…
NPR featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the history of protests in Los Angeles amid the response to the murder of George Floyd. He was also quoted in The New York Times (via The Associated Press) and interviewed on NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV and KCRW-FM. Read more…
Erroll Southers of the USC Price School was interviewed on-air by NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV on the looting and vandalism in Los Angeles that took place after peaceful protests. “What we’re looking at with the looting and the fires are pure opportunists. As the police cover and protect territory, the Read more…
USC Law professor Jody David Armour discusses the national fallout following the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody with KTLA Weekend Morning News.
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how the recent videos of racial injustice may be shifting perceptions of how African Americans are treated. “Over time, as you see incident after incident, it starts to look like a pervasive and persistent pattern,” Read more…
“Police brutality cases are kind of like a scab over a festering wound. Anytime there’s an incident anywhere in the U.S., it reminds people here of some of the traumas and dramas we’ve gone through.”
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent viral video documenting white privilege in Central Park. “It reminds me of the Emmett Till case,” said USC law professor Jody David Armour, who studies race and criminal justice. “A white woman who alleged that a Read more…
ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV featured David Sloane of the USC Price School on lessons from the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. About 675,000 people died in the United States during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and many of those public health lessons can apply to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Read more…
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