Angelenos Support BLM, But Split on Defunding Police, Spectrum News/Ipsos Poll Shows
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’ is that even though African Americans and Latinx people were stopped three-to-four times more than white Angelenos, those communities of Read more…
Outcry pushes Phoenix to roll out body cameras for officers
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 and criminology, said body-worn cameras “have done quite a bit of good” but only work with strictly enforced requirements.” Read more…
Investigation Continues Into DIS Where Suspect Was Shot At 34 Times
CBS2LA quoted Jody Armour of the USC Gould School in a video interview on the recent deputy-involved shooting in Willowbrook.
LAPD officer killed a man in a Costco store
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.
Gregory DeAngelo
PS You’re Busted: How bridging silos in research & practice can impact human trafficking irl In this episode of the PS You’re Interesting podcast, Jeff Jenkins talks about human trafficking with Greg DeAngelo, Associate Professor of Economic Studies at Claremont Graduate University. How does an economist get data on human trafficking and Read more…
PIPE* Workshop: Ben Newman, UCR
“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 crime activity. We conducted a large-scale field experiment on roughly 6,800 police departments throughout the United States to test for Read more…
This is How it Ends
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 through the story of two women engaged in the anti-gentrification movement. How do we define ourselves in places? How do Read more…
US judge orders release of ‘first Black Identity Extremist’
AL Jazeera quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about how the FBI broadly applies its Black Identity Extremist (BIE) designation.
Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of a Fist
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.”
Police State
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.
Beyond police protests, a push for dialogue in black communities
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 leaders, law enforcement, youth, and clergy alike to really come together, roll up the sleeves and come up with substantive, Read more…
Worst in Governance is Missouri Governor Jay Nixon
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 men was sadly a surprise to very few. The last few months have shown that the list of unarmed Black men Read more…
Enforcing Order
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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