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We hear people say they’re tired of hearing about race. Yes, well we’re tired of living it.” By utilizing data from sources such as The Washington Post‘s police shootings database, and ...
To provide context, Dr. Richard presented data on police killings in 2016. He asked the students to guess how many people were killed by the police that year. The estimates ranged widely, with ...
There have been killings by police in the years since Floyd's death, including in early 2023 when Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died in Tennessee. Not long after, South Carolina...
Geoff Bennett: This past Saturday marked four years since the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Floyd's killing sparked a global uprising and sweeping promises of ...
Featured Story. Police violence is often framed as an urban problem, but a new investigation revealed that county sheriff’s officers, who act as the primary law enforcement agents in America’s rural areas and towns, are three times more lethal than city police. An analysis of nearly 10 years of federal data showed that, while more people ...
This study explores attributions of police misconduct, using a myriad of possible attributions and a population-matched national sample (N = 700), to extend our understanding of the perceived causes of police misconduct and who holds which attributions, focusing on race, racial attitudes, and political ideology. We find that attributions could ...
The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race, Violence and the Politics of Policing in America, by Michelle S. Phelps, Princeton University Press, 304 pages, $29.95. Being a writer at the right place at the ...
