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…
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…
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…
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…
Minneapolis Star Tribune quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the parallels between Rodney King and George Floyd. “George Floyd is the most shocking thing they’ve seen.” Full article here
Vice quoted Jody Armour on whether public defenders should share their stories on social media. “Twitter has allowed public defenders to start to present the criminal justice system from the defendant’s perspective.” Full article here
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on members of the LAPD reportedly mocking the death of George Floyd on Valentine’s Day. “It’s a real public relations nightmare and it’s also a public safety nightmare.”
The Appeal featured an op-ed by Jody Armour of the USC Gould School and he was also quoted in The Intercept on why choosing Rep. Adam Schiff to be the next attorney general of California would be a mistake. “In California, we know Adam Schiff as a chief architect of Read more…
KNX 1070 AM featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on L.A. County prosecutors’ opposition to the reforms of D.A. George Gascón. “How you prioritize prosecutorial discretion reflects your values and your values are supposed to come from what the voters elected you to do.” Full article here
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on Black History Month and the Black Lives Matter movement. “Black History Month reflects the best and the worst of Black culture, with wealth and poverty rubbing elbows in Los Angeles, just blocks apart.” Full article Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the low vaccination rates of Black residents in Los Angeles County. “One of the hidden costs of discrimination is that it can rob a community that’s been discriminated against of trust and confidence in the Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KCOP-TV interviewed Jody Armour on Black History Month. “It’s a celebration of some of the best of times and it’s an opportunity to critically reflect on some of the worst of times in the same community”
Los Angeles Times quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on how L.A.’s new district attorney may approach charges against protestors. “At the end of the day, the prosecutor has a lot of discretion to weigh all those kinds of competing interests.” Full article here
Witness L.A. featured an op-ed by Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the importance of District Attorney George Gas?on’s three strikes reform. “We have every reason to support Gascón’s policy and no good reason to oppose it. That doesn’t mean the tough-on-crime crowd won’t try to convince us otherwise, Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School in a live interview on the state attorney general’s decision to start a probe into the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. “California was the first state in the union, in 2000, to give authority to its attorney Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on what comes after President Biden’s inauguration. “We can’t get to a common purpose without a common truth. If we’re going to unify as a nation around common values, we’re going to need common facts, common Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on his observations following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. “Protestors saw police stand by and stand back in a way that is unimaginable for black protesters. It was like a natural experiment where we control for one variable-rowdiness, Read more…
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV featured Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the presidential impeachment process. “An impeachment is an indictment. Then there’s a trial in the Senate; if they conclude that he [Trump] engaged in these high crimes and misdemeanors, they will just affirm the articles Read more…