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…
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
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…
“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.”
The Oregonian quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about law enforcement strategies to communicate with extremist groups. The confiding tone of Niiya’s emails and texts could be taken as preferential treatment to people not familiar with police technique, said Erroll G. Southers, a national security professor at the University of Southern Read more…
Political influence of public protest In this episode of the PS You’re Interestingpodcast, Jeff Jenkins and LaGina Gause, Assistant Professor of Political Science at UC San Diego, discuss the pro-democracy (small d) results of her study on legislative responsiveness to collective action by marginalized groups. Her findings seem counterintuitive, in that the Read more…
LaGina Gause discussed her research paper, The Advantage of Disadvantage: Protests, Resources, and Legislative Behavior. It is well documented that low-resource groups are disadvantaged in the political process. But, when low-resource groups can overcome barriers to engage in collective action – participation involving multiple participants publicly expressing a grievance – it suggests that Read more…
The Hollywood Reporterquoted Sherry Bebitch Jeffeof the USC Price School and Dan Schnur of the USC Annenberg School about House of Representatives nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) visit to Los Angeles. “Eric [Garcetti] is the establishment,” says Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior fellow at the USC Sol Price School of Public Read more…
AL Jazeera quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about how the FBI broadly applies its Black Identity Extremist (BIE) designation.
Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV interviewed Jody Armour of the USC Gould School about NFL players and owners reacting to President Donald Trump’s statements about kneeling during the national anthem. Armour told FOX 11 most people don’t realize this movement started during the Obama administration, not under Trump. “A lot of people Read more…
by Justine Dodgen Last week, thousands of Hong Kong students began protesting Beijing’s recent decision to place limitations on the selection of candidates for Hong Kong’s 2017 Chief Executive election. On August 31, Beijing announced that it will only allow politicians who have been approved by a pro-Beijing nominating committee to Read more…
