Journalists from broadcast, cable, print, and online sources turn to Bedrosian faculty and student researchers for their expertise, as resources to inform complex policy issues. Here are links to some of the pieces in which our faculty are quoted.
Los Angeles Times featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the Derek Chauvin verdict and the surprise many felt after years of police violence leading to acquittals. He was also interviewed on ABC News Los Angeles affiliate KABC-TV, NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV, CBS News Los Angeles Read more…
CBS News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial. He was also interviewed on NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV. “[The defense] is going into excruciating, granular detail. They’re not running away from the video [of George Floyd’s death], which Read more…
Jody Armour was quoted in The New York Times. “Many of us are on the receiving end of police mistreatment and we just have to swallow those indignities.” Full article here
CBS News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on what to expect during the closing arguments of the Derek Chauvin trial. He was also interviewed on Vox’s Today Explained, Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV and KNX 1070 AM. “A chance to frame the evidence and marshal the facts in a way that you Read more…
Fox News featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent increase in violent crimes in Los Angeles and how it’s partially tied to previous police behavior. “That reservoir of resentment is actually, in and of itself, also a driver of crime. Until that’s healed, we’re really not going to Read more…
The Atlantic cited research by Christian Grose of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute on the most egregious partisan gerrymanders in the United States. “A University of Southern California study found that Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania all suffer from minority rule in one or both chambers of their state legislatures.” Read more…
KNX 1070 AM interviewed Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on the increased effectiveness of a four-year-old Los Angeles affordable housing program. “You will be allowed to develop with more density without needing to get any particular permissions to do so, in exchange for setting aside a certain share Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School as he provides legal updates on the Derek Chauvin murder trial. “We are continuing to see the prosecution present to the jury experts. Experts from law enforcement, very often, who said what Derek Chauvin did was Read more…
KNX 1070 AM interviewed Richard Green of the USC Lusk Center on the need to build affordable housing in Los Angeles in tandem with newly extended public transit infrastructure. “We should be building along that transit infrastructure”
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the ongoing Derek Chauvin trial. “Jurors want to hear from experts; we want to defer to their judgments. In a medical malpractice case, you want to hear doctors talk about what other doctors do. Here, Read more…
A study from Christian Grose, “Reducing Legislative Polarization: Top-Two and Open Primaries Are Associated with More Moderate Legislators” was quoted in The Atlantic.
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the first day of the Derek Chauvin trial. “This case is all about two things: use of force and, most importantly, intent. And while intent may not have been present in the first few minutes Read more…
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of USC Gould School on the opening arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial. “And then if it was unnecessary to knee on his neck that long then you have a wrongful act and then we can get into the causation questions of whether that wrong caused Read more…
Vox’s Today Explained interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his opposition to legislation that would ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. “The legislation in a lot of these bans suggest that the way to protect black lives is to keep black people from being able to consume products Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the investigation into the Boulder mass shooting. “We’ll want to ask why. Why did this happen? First, we do believe he was a lone gunman. We don’t believe there was a network. We’ll want to Read more…
Talking Points Memo quoted Jeffery A. Jenkins on the election in Iowa. “The committee has handled things correctly so far. . . . Hart didn’t do anything wrong by filing a claim.” Full article here
The Guardian quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on Rep. Adam Schiff’s record in California as a leading force behind mass incarceration. “The country knows Schiff as sort of an icon. Here in California, we know him as someone who was, in many ways, one of the chief Read more…
KCRW-FM featured David Sloane of the USC Price School on the complications around not being able to properly grieve during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Grief is an essential part of human life. It’s the way that we deal with the devastation of loss, the final loss, of a person we love.” Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the city of Minneapolis settling with George Floyd’s family. “I think they wanted to make a statement: $27 million is one of the highest settlements for a police misconduct case in history, and it expresses Read more…
The Guardian quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the efforts by L.A. District Attorney George Gascón to transform the criminal justice system. “It’s a commitment to a different moral framework – turning away from retribution, retaliation and revenge as the dominant moral compass, and moving toward restoration, Read more…
The Washington Post quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on what a “not guilty” verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial could mean for race relations. “This jury will be sitting as representatives of the community and the espousers of community values.” Full article here
MEL Magazine quoted Jody Armour of USC Gould School on L.A. District Attorney George Gascón’s efforts to end the three-strikes law. “One that will make a defining statement about society’s willingness to rehabilitate instead of punish.” Full article here
CalMatters quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on slowly growing diversity among California judges. “The trial judges, those are the ones that are seeing the citizens in the most personal and direct way.” Full article here
KPCC-FM interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the 30-year anniversary of the Rodney King beating. “There’s something really powerful about bearing witness, visually seeing you know these images.” Full article here
The Guardian featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the three decades since the Rodney King beating. “So many activists are calling for defunding the police because the changes that have occurred have not made real changes in how many Angelenos and marginalized communities are experiencing policing.” Full Read more…