One person said: ‘I had to report at the police station where he works, where everybody knows everybody’.
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A landmark study of police-LGBTQ relations finds that 21% of respondents have been stopped by police in the past year, and 53% of Black trans respondents have been the victims of police brutality.
As violent attacks against gay people continue to increase in the US, Black transwomen face ongoing battles against discrimination in the workplace and over receiving health care.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms prohibits Canadian police from using excessive force and conducting unreasonable searches. But research has found many cases of police violating the Charter.
London’s police force has a deeply ingrained culture that can’t be fixed by one commissioner.
Sexual violence by police is more common than many might think. Failing to fully investigate can have a chilling effect on what is already the most underreported violent crime in Canada.
Ghanaian authorities could elicit more cooperation from citizens in governing the cities by creating conditions that give the majority a chance at a decent life
A documentary series aimed to spark national conversation about criminalising coercive control. However, it highlighted power imbalances in conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous women.
Police officers who kill, injure or violate the rights of citizens are often not held accountable, even in civil court – because in most cases, they can’t be sued for official acts.
The history and weight of US press freedom played a powerful, but unacknowledged, role in the conviction of Derek Chauvin for murdering George Floyd.
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Senior Lecturer In Public Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Indigenist Health Humanities Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Project Advisor, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
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Assistant Professor of Law, University of Memphis
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Brock University
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Senior Lecturer in Police Studies, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Western University
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Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in Criminology, University of Liverpool