Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.
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Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.
Another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it. A review of police budgets could mean more money towards community initiatives.
The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
For decades, there’s been a concerted effort by law enforcement to ensure their perspectives – and not those of people being policed – dominate prime-time television.
Iraq, Guatemala and the autonomous region of Bougainville have all tried to demilitarise their police forces – with varying degrees of success.
Will police accept the challenge of ending
Māori over-representation at every stage of the criminal justice system in Aotearoa-New Zealand?
There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
For almost a century, American popular culture has perpetuated the idea that only journalists working in foreign countries could be in danger.
The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
Police officers put themselves and their families in harm’s way in order to stop crime and protect us. But who protects them?
Fears of looming totalitarianism are unfounded, despite some valid concerns about new COVID-19 laws.
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Nearly 90% of emergency service staff have experienced stress, low mood and poor mental health.
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
Many people are unaware of their rights and options if they receive a penalty notice, especially if they think they’ve done nothing wrong.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
We need any new laws on what we can and can’t do to be clear to all, applied consistently and transparently, which is not the case at the moment.
It is important that police forces and the CPS are able to recognise that coercive control and couple violence are different and require different handling.
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Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University
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Professor, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg
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Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University
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Program Director & Associate Professor Master of Psychology Health and Wellness & Master of Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Adler University
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Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
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Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Emmanuel College
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Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Excellence in Policing & Public Safety Program, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Associate Professor in Telecommunications Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology