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The RCMP have long been responsible for violence against Indigenous people.
Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
Police should take a wider view to join the dots that link the networks behind slavery and drugs.
Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased.
Negro Matapacos became famous in Chile in 2011 for joining student protests. His image has now popped up around the world.
Recruiting 20,000 new police officers may sound like a massive boost, but the reality is that the Conservative’s proposal will simply replace the 20,600 police officers who have already been cut.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn’t necessarily inherently racist – though New York’s program was.
After months of respecting the boundaries of university campuses, the Hong Kong police moved in to make arrests. Now, protesters are defending what had once been sanctified spaces.
Police are almost always the first responders in cases of mental health crisis. Too often these encounters turn bad, even deadly. But police were never meant to be in charge of US mental health care.
Women and children remain vulnerable to harm even after intimate violence has occurred. Coordinating a community’s response can help avoid educational, employment, social, housing and legal problems.
A study looked at fines in 93 California cities. Cities with more black residents and more disproportionately white police forces tended to rely the most on fines.
A sociologist spent time as a volunteer firefighter – and learned more about how institutional culture can shape a person’s behavior.
Although opportunities have expanded for women in policing, the numbers of women on most forces remain well below 50% and women are very underrepresented in senior roles.
Police tactics in Hong Kong have not helped the cycle of protest, repression and further protest.
There are potential issues with any use of machine learning in policing. But if used in the right way, it could go a long way towards more effective policing.
Police crackdown operations are likely to exacerbate the structural inequalities that can influence criminality in the first place.
According to a new study, about 52 of every 100,000 men and boys, and about 3 of every 100,000 women and girls, are killed by police in the US.
More than 40 percent of U.S. adults have a gun in their household, making it hard to get guns off the streets – even if new gun restrictions are passed.
A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.
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