Tag: policing
Spectrum News 1 interviewed Erroll Southers on why Angelenos support Black Lives Matter yet remain uncertain about defunding the police. “But the other thing I find interesting about ‘defunding the police’…
Yahoo News quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the benefits of body-worn cameras for police officers. “Jody David Armour, a University of Southern California professor of law…
CBS2LA quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School in a video interview on the recent deputy-involved shooting in Willowbrook.
MSN, Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School on the recent shooting of an off-duty Los Angeles police officer at a Costco store in Corona.
“Uncovering Discrimination in the Policing of Anti-Immigrant Hate Crime” With an increase in ethnically motivated hate crime, we explore the issue of the rigor in which law enforcement agencies police potential hate…
Eva Dolan’s This is How it Endsis a thriller set in an anti-gentrification activist community in the middle of a rapidly gentrifying London. Dolan tackles the huge issue of gentrification…
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist imagines what it means to be empathetic within the institutional violence of our system and the violence humans can commit against each other. Listen to our discussion about power and the necessity of protest within our democratic structure, and how protests should, and can, peacefully engage to solve the world’s “wicked problems.”
While much attention has been given to the premise that young black men are particularly susceptible to being the target of these acts of police brutality, the problem is not confined to any particular demographic group, as people of all ages, genders, and ethnicities are subjected to violent treatment at the hands of American law enforcement officers. In fact, the frequency and pervasiveness of these incidents suggest that something is very wrong with the state of the police in this country.
Raphael Bostic spoke to Daniel Wood of the Christian Science Monitor about recent protests for police reform. “These past few months have coalesced an unprecedented amount of concern by community…
by Jeremy Loudenback Worst in Governance Missouri Governor Jay Nixon That courts in Ferguson, MO, and New York failed to indict police officers in the recent deaths of two unarmed African-American…
In this edition of the Bedrosian Book Club Podcast, we discuss Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing by Didier Fassin – a study of an anti-crime squad in the outskirts of Paris.
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