Column: The answer in Santa Clarita school shooting: God, gunshot kits and fire extinguishers as weapons
Los Angeles Times quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the need for students to be familiar with active shooter protocols. “Students today should be as familiar with active shooter protocols as they are with fire drills or protocols for earthquakes and other natural disasters,” says USC professor Read more…
Watchmen (HBO Series)
Host Erroll Southers is joined by Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, Alex Ago, and Aubrey Hicks to discuss the first episode of the new HBO series Watchmen.
Starring Regina King, Tim Blake Nelson, and an enormously talented ensemble cast, the series picks up beyond the first film and original DC comic series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. We are in an alternate version of the world, one in which the war in Vietnam was won and Vietnam annexed as a state. A world in which reparations of some sort were paid. A world in which the police wear masks and the great masked vigilantes of the past are now legends of a different kind.
We discuss the ability of pop culture to delved into deep societal issues, and what the responsibility of the creators is to historical content in a fictional setting.
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Host Erroll Southers and guests Alex Ago, Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro, and Jonathan Schwartz as they try to wrap their heads around Terry Gilliam’s 25+ years of work: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.
How do law enforcement handle domestic terrorism in the digital age?
KCRW-FM featured an interview with Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on how law enforcement should handle domestic terrorism in the digital age. “There is a saying that goes: when you have an attack, they want more people watching than people dead. And so every time they’re able to Read more…
Hypocritical Talk, worse action: Trump dismantled tools to fight white supremacist terrorism
USA Today featured an op-ed by Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the implications of President Trump’s approach to the rise in white supremacy and right-wing violence in the United States. “If the administration is serious about its intention to defeat these ideologies and stop those who embrace Read more…
Two Shootings, Two Days: The Role Of 8chan, White Nationalism, Gun Proliferation
KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk” interviewed Erroll Southers on the two recent mass shootings. Full interview here
Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting: Experts worry killer fits pattern of hate, fueled online
San Fransisco Chronicle quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on the perpetrator of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. “Still, some experts see signals that the Gilroy shooting may fit a pattern of mass killers whose views have been sculpted online. Many of them follow a similar script: Before Read more…
Fearing active shooters, employers turn to workers to monitor their peers
The Washington Post quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on identifying potential shooters in the workplace before incidents occur. “When it comes to attackers, they pick their victims,” said Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent who is now a security consultant and a professor of national and homeland security at the University Read more…
The Godfather (1972 – dir. Francis Ford Coppola)
Depending on who you talk to, The Godfather is either a story of an “aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son” or, the “greatest gangster film of all time.”
We discuss why the film is still watched … and loved almost 50 years later.
Listen as host Erroll Southers discusses the first of the trilogy, The Godfather, with Carla Della Gatta, Aubrey Hicks, and Jonathan Schwartz.
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USC Price Hosts Intelligence Analyst to Discuss Mueller Report
By Matthew Kredell Intelligence analyst and commentator Malcolm Nance joined USC Price Professor Erroll Southers on April 30 for an Unredacted conversation about the Mueller Report findings. Watch the live webcast here. The USC Bedrosian Center on Governance and USC Safe Communities Institute hosted the event to examine key findings in the Read more…
SoCal terror plot thwarted
KPCC-FM’s “Take Two” interviewed Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about the growing number of violent domestic terror attacks against places of worship. Full interview here
Us (dir. Jordan Peele)
From the mind the brought us Get Out, is the new film scaring audiences across the states. In Jordan Peele’s latest film, Us, doppelgängers menace a family trying to enjoy their summer vacation. But … as in Get Out, everything isn’t quite that simple. Warning: Spoilers!
What mirror is Peele holding up for us now?
Why far-right attackers aren’t charged as domestic terrorists
ThinkProgress quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on why only perpetrators associated with a foreign country or ideology are charged with terrorism. “We don’t charge people with terror offenses unless they’re connected with a foreign country or ideology,” Southers told ThinkProgress. “While a hate crime charge can still send a person Read more…
Why White Supremacist Attacks are on the Rise, Even in Surprising Places
Time quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School about the rise of white supremacy. “As University of Southern California homeland security scholar and former FBI agent, Erroll Southers has said, white supremacy is no longer a movement on the fringes but rather ‘is being globalized at a very rapid pace.’ This is happening within Read more…
Muslims and Government Officials Plan Next Steps in Christchurch
Voice of America quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on why white supremacy is no longer a fringe movement. “I don’t think it’s (white supremacy) any longer a fringe movement, it is certainly coming of age. It is being globalized at a very rapid pace,” said Erroll Southers, a professor of Read more…
New Zealand shooting is warning for US: Get serious about white supremacist terror threat
USA Today published an Op-Ed written by Erroll G. Southers, former FBI special agent, professor of national and homeland security at the University of Southern California’s Sol Price School of Public Policy, director of USC Safe Communities Institute, and director of Homegrown Violent Extremism Studies. It’s a group of extremists and potential “terrorists,” with Read more…
Fighting with My Family (dir. Stephen Merchant)
A British comedy meets WWE in Fighting with My Family, how does this true story translate to the big screen?
Erroll Southers is joined by Ange-Marie Hancock Alfaro & Alex Ago tackle this larger than life sports comedy in today’s episode!
Portland cop’s chatty texts to Patriot Prayer spur outrage but are standard police strategy, experts say
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…
U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.
The New York Times quoted Erroll Southers of the USC Price School on U.S. counterterrorism strategy and white nationalism. “I was very pleased when the Obama administration started and said, We’re not going to use the phrase ‘war on terror,’?” says Erroll Southers, a former F.B.I. agent and now director Read more…
Officials Confirm Remains in Stolen Seattle Plane as Thief Richard Russell
The Epoch Timescited comments by Erroll Southerson the Seattle airport employee who stole a passenger plane. Glen Winn of USC’s Aviation Safety and Security Program was also quoted. The greatest threat we have to aviation is the insider threat,” Erroll Southers, a former FBI agent and transportation security expert, told The Read more…
The Latest: Family: Man Who Took Plane Was Warm, Gentle
The New York Times, in an Associated Pressstory, quoted Erroll Southersof the USC Price School on security aspects of the airport employee who stole a passenger plane in Seattle. Erroll Southers says Saturday that the unidentified man represents one of the greatest threats to aviation by being an insider cleared Read more…
Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You, written and directed by Boots Riley. The film follows a young Cassius (Cash) Green who joins an Oakland telemarketing company, adopting a white accent to thrive, propelling him up the ladder. He is faced with the dilemma of success and the ethics of what he’s selling. Read more…
Calls For National School Security Guidance Grow As State Requirements Scrutinized
Campus Safetyquoted Erroll Southersof the USC Price School on why a National Center of Excellence for School Safety would be a way to better standardize school safety requirements. “A National Center of Excellence for School Safety could be that hub for research, training, intellectual exchange and a place where people Read more…
Inside Experts’ Push to Steer The School Security Industry Toward Collaboration, Best Practices
Campus Safety Magazine mentioned Erroll Southers of the USC Price School helped compile a list of security assessment resources for schools.