LAist featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School and Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College on the university’s recent report on campus safety and racial profiling. Additional coverage was found in Campus Safety Magazine. The report recommends a new vision for public safety at USC, and it also Read more…
KPCC-FM featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School and Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro of the USC Dornsife College as they discussed the university’s report on recommendations from the Department of Public Safety Community Advisory Board — which they co-chaired — regarding campus safety and racial profiling. Members of the advisory board called for a Read more…
NBC News Palm Springs affiliate KMIR-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the U.S. Capitol Police opening offices in two states outside of Washington, D.C. which are California and Florida. California being selected as a field office location may come to a surprise to some, but not experts Read more…
KCRW-FM interviewed Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on how the pandemic and the stay-at-home orders supercharged the growth of QAnon. Covid 19 and the stay home orders became what I call the extremist ideological trifecta. Erroll Southers Tweet Listen here
Erroll Southers was featured in a live news segment with Colleen Williams, KNBC News at 5, on the sentencing of Derek Chauvin. “I think the judge’s sentence fell approximately where we thought it would fall, especially if you look at Minnesota precedence for the same exact crime. Between 2014 and Read more…
Spectrum News 1 featured the USC Price School’s Safe Communities Institute’s Director, Erroll Southers and the development of the LEWIS Registry. This registry is a national database will track police misconduct and provide departments with analytics. The LEWIS Registry will launch beta tests for law enforcement later this year and Read more…
Erroll Southers was interviewed on KPCC-FM on the Price School’s new nationwide police misconduct registry. “The LEWIS registry stands for Law Enforcement Work Inquiry System and is named after the late U.S. Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis. It’s launching later this year and will allow people to find Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the investigation into the mass shooting in San Jose “They’ll be looking for a lot of forensic information regarding the weapon he used. But more importantly, the majority of the real important information as to the why Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV and Los Angeles Magazine featured the USC Price School’s Safe Communities Institute and its development of a national registry to track police misconduct go to another department. “We’re only focused on officers that have been terminated or resigned due to misconduct so they can’t go to another Read more…
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…
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…
MSNBC featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School in a live interview on the rise of far-right domestic terrorism in the United States and beyond. “Women play a very pivotal role in the white nationalism, white supremacy movement. And this is a movement that has gone transnational.” Full website Read more…
Erroll Southers was quoted in a Los Angeles Times article on identifying Capitol intruders. Extremists “don’t live in a vacuum…. They all have family, friends, colleagues, co-workers, and it’s no surprise that they will share their beliefs or actions with those people. The best opportunity we have to either help Read more…
Erroll Southers was interviewed live by MSNBC on the need to take domestic terror groups seriously. “The FBI didn’t start investigating the Klan in the ’60s because they wanted to. They did it because they had to. And so I have confidence that, with the appropriate vetting process and regular Read more…
USA Today quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the transnational reach of many dangerous far-right groups and appointment of Avril Haines, Biden’s intelligence pick. “Her long working relationship with Biden will be vital because the country cannot afford any miscues or lag time. She can hit the Read more…
An opinion editorial on far-right terrorism written by Erroll Southers was published by USAToday. After the deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol last week, terms like protest, riot and sedition are being used to describe what occurred. Make no mistake, it was a terrorist attack….There are necessary policy and legal discussions Read more…
CNBC featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the actions of law enforcement during the assault on the U.S. Capitol. “I think back to 1995. Do we have to have buildings come down as they did in Oklahoma City for us to get the message? Yesterday, thank god, Read more…
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV (live interview) featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the ease with which the U.S. Capitol was overtaken. “I am shocked and disappointed that one of the most secure facilities in our country was easily breached, with members of Congress and the Read more…
The Hill quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the long-term damage being caused by President Trump’s post-election behavior. The threats to public officials in those states [Georgia & Michigan] are “alarming” and added that it was “even more troubling that these threats, and the groups that are Read more…
USA Today featured an op-ed by Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on what Americans need to do to eliminate the terrorist threat of white supremacy. “The cooperation and sense of urgency we need to bring stakeholders together in a concerted effort to fight this threat will come from Read more…
KPCC-FM interviewed Erroll Southers. “A poll watcher’s real responsibility is to watch and report issues to polling place authorities and party officials” Full interview here
NBC News Los Angeles affiliate KNBC-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the issues that voters could have faced at the ballot box. “I want to tell people that voting is safe. Everyone who is legally entitled to vote has to have the opportunity to do so. Read more…
CW News Los Angeles affiliate KTLA-TV featured Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on a de-escalation training for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. “It’s really difficult to take emotion out of the equation, especially when the vast majority of academy training focuses on self-preservation.”
