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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 16, 2019
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Commentary: Racism, Extremism, and Policing

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a numbe ...

It was only a few years ago when the San Francisco Police Department was embroiled in a scandal – a number of officers got caught up sending not only racist jokes, but making derogatory statements abo ...

July 16, 2019
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UC Students Resolve to Disarm Campus Police as State Use-of-Force Legislation Looms

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|Date: May 19, 2019
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UC Students Resolve to Disarm Campus Police as State Use-of-Force Legislation Looms

By Raquel Victoria Navarro DAVIS, CA – Student community leaders and a roomfull of supporters fought for ...

By Raquel Victoria Navarro DAVIS, CA – Student community leaders and a roomfull of supporters fought for and succeeded in passing Resolution XIV through the Associated Students of UC Davis Thursday ni ...

May 19, 2019
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My View: The Problem with the Bad Apple Theory of Policing

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|Date: September 30, 2017
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My View: The Problem with the Bad Apple Theory of Policing

The bad apple theory of policing argues that the vast majority of police officers are good and that it is ...

The bad apple theory of policing argues that the vast majority of police officers are good and that it is a few bad cops (or bad apples) that cause the majority of the problems. And there is some tru ...

September 30, 2017
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Missouri Should Try Listening to Protesters Instead of Attacking Them

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|Date: September 28, 2017
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Missouri Should Try Listening to Protesters Instead of Attacking Them

By Thaddeus Talbot “I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,” sa ...

By Thaddeus Talbot “I think everyone deserves the same rights as I do. I just want peace and justice,” says Maleeha Ahmad, one of the protesters who was pepper-sprayed by police officers in St. Louis ...

September 28, 2017
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The Nature of Violence

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|Date: August 13, 2017
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The Nature of Violence

By Connor Gorman When most people think of violence they tend to picture physical confrontation, weapons, ...

By Connor Gorman When most people think of violence they tend to picture physical confrontation, weapons, assault, etc. but what doesn’t typically come to mind are such things as PTSD, homelessness, a ...

August 13, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: When an African American Confronts the Police

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: When an African American Confronts the Police

More than 35 years ago the British punk band The Clash sang, “When they kick at your front door, How you ...

More than 35 years ago the British punk band The Clash sang, “When they kick at your front door, How you gonna come? With your hands on your head – Or on the trigger of your gun…” But in America, the ...

July 09, 2017
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Time to Address School Policing Issues

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|Date: October 08, 2016
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Time to Address School Policing Issues

By Harold Jordan Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America ...

By Harold Jordan Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America — they’re happening in our nation’s K-12 schools, too. Increasingly police have become “embedde ...

October 08, 2016
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When Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer

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|Date: August 27, 2016
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When Police Body Cameras Aren’t the Answer

by Peter Bibring and Catherine Wagner Earlier this month, a too familiar tragedy unfolded in East Los Ang ...

by Peter Bibring and Catherine Wagner Earlier this month, a too familiar tragedy unfolded in East Los Angeles when Los Angeles police officers shot and killed 14-year-old Jesse Romero. Witness account ...

August 27, 2016
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Bad Laws Produce Bad Law Enforcement

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|Date: August 22, 2016
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Bad Laws Produce Bad Law Enforcement

By David W. Brown The police shooting and killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown on Aug ...

By David W. Brown The police shooting and killing of an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, sparked civil unrest in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. The weeks that followe ...

August 22, 2016
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Milwaukee Feels Like a Police State

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|Date: August 21, 2016
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Milwaukee Feels Like a Police State

When I Was a Kid in Sherman Park, There Were Problems With Police. Now It Feels Like a Police State. By J ...

When I Was a Kid in Sherman Park, There Were Problems With Police. Now It Feels Like a Police State. By Jarrett English When I was a kid living in the Milwaukee neighborhood of Sherman Park in the ear ...

August 21, 2016
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Commentary: Should BLM Be Held Accountable For Dallas?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2016
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Commentary: Should BLM Be Held Accountable For Dallas?

The line between group accountability and personal responsibility is not as clear as many want to see it. ...

The line between group accountability and personal responsibility is not as clear as many want to see it. After all, many want to ban guns or make them harder to obtain when a crazed individual gross ...

July 10, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people w ...

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people who shouldn’t be police officers and protect the public and their colleagues from those individu ...

July 09, 2016
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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2016
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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only of ...

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only officer charged with murder, and the question has shifted as to what prosecutor Marilyn Mosby sho ...

June 28, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

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|Date: January 23, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a criti ...

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a critical dimension to economic inequality in California: racial inequality. People of color are uniq ...

January 23, 2016
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2015
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue t ...

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue that “reports of rising crime nationwide are overblown and not supported by the available data.” ...

December 29, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Data Keeps Pointing Away From Crime Wave

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Data Keeps Pointing Away From Crime Wave

In October, FBI Director James Comey caught the Administration and Justice Department off guard when he s ...

In October, FBI Director James Comey caught the Administration and Justice Department off guard when he said that “additional scrutiny and criticism of police officers in the wake of highly publicized ...

December 28, 2015
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Does the Hung Jury in Baltimore Case Indict the Whole System?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2015
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Does the Hung Jury in Baltimore Case Indict the Whole System?

Police defenders will undoubtedly say "I told you so," in arguing that the prosecutor overreached in char ...

Police defenders will undoubtedly say "I told you so," in arguing that the prosecutor overreached in charging the officers with manslaughter, but the hung jury this week in the Freddie Gray case may n ...

December 20, 2015
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AG Implements Law Enforcement Training on Implicit Bias & Procedural Justice

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|Date: November 18, 2015
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AG Implements Law Enforcement Training on Implicit Bias & Procedural Justice

(From AG Press Release) - In the wake of recent events in California and across the nation that highlight ...

(From AG Press Release) - In the wake of recent events in California and across the nation that highlight the need for building trust between law enforcement and the communities they are sworn to serv ...

November 18, 2015
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DOJ Report on Ferguson Faults Police Tactics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2015
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DOJ Report on Ferguson Faults Police Tactics

A report being released by the US Department of Justice is casting blame on law enforcement officials, re ...

A report being released by the US Department of Justice is casting blame on law enforcement officials, responding to demonstrations in Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown last August, for us ...

September 04, 2015
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Broken-Window Theory Put in Question

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2015
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Broken-Window Theory Put in Question

by Bernard E. Harcourt In an effort to rehabilitate the broken-windows theory, George Kelling recently di ...

by Bernard E. Harcourt In an effort to rehabilitate the broken-windows theory, George Kelling recently distanced himself from the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and others, chalking them ...

August 19, 2015
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