• Regents' Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Some police reform efforts encourage stations to hire more educated officers. vchal/shutterstock.com

College‑educated cops enforce the law more aggressively

Officers with college degrees were significantly more likely to pull over drivers for less serious violations, search drivers or their vehicles and make arrests on discretionary grounds.
Violence erupts again in Ferguson, Missouri. Lucas Jackson/REUTERS

Why Ferguson erupts

Two criminologists long associated with the University of Missouri – St Louis dispel myths about Ferguson, a community that borders the campus, and explain what’s behind the violent protests there.

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