MEDIA

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE

• Trust Never As Simple As ‘No Harm, No Foul’, The Chief, October 9, 2015
• Talk Back - Live Radio Give and Take (podcast)
  Hosted By: Gloria Brown Marshall
• The Llyod G. Sealy Lecture Featuring Kenneth P. Thompson

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM

• A Black Police Officer’s Fight Against the N.Y.P.D.
• Class-Action Lawsuit, Blaming Police Quotas, Takes On Criminal Summonses
• How Black Lives Matter Is Fighting For Criminal Justice Reform
• Criminal Justice Reform Initiative

 

DOJ REPORTS

• Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Ohio December 4, 2014
• United States. (2015). Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department.
• Investigation of the Cleveland Division of Police United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division United States Attorney’s Office Northern District of Ohio December 4, 2014

 

JUSTICE

• Update: Albert Woodfox, Last of the Angola Three, Is Free After 43 Years in Solitary Confinement
• Albert Woodfox Released!
• Officer Peter Liang Convicted in Fatal Shooting of Akai Gurley in Brooklyn
• UN experts urge US to address legacies of the past, police impunity and ‘crisis of racial injustice’
• The American Justice Summit (Part 1)
• The Second Annual American Justice Summit
• 20th Anniversary of the Million Man March Themed #Justice or Else!
• Million Man March, 20 Years On
• Travis, J., & Western, B. (2014, December 16). Protests shine light on deeper issues with modern justice. Retrieved from http://www.bostonglobe.com/
• Getting Beyond Ferguson
• Ferguson Won't Change Anything. What Will?
• Justice Department clears Ferguson police officer in civil rights probe
• The Shocking Finding From the DOJ's Ferguson Report That Nobody Has Noticed
• Excessive or reasonable force by police? Research on law enforcement and racial conflict - See more
• Justice Department clears Ferguson police officer in civil rights probe
• Opportunity Agenda Policy Book 2015 State of the State Governor Andrew M. Cuomo
• Racism Within the Secret Service Colors Recent Threats to Obama’s Security

 

COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES ON POLICING

• The Fire of a New Generation By George Yancy and Cornel West
• In New York, Testing Grounds for Community Policing
• In Fight for a Stretch of the Rockaways, Surfers and New Residents Collide

 

POLICE BRUTALITY

• New York City Police Get New Orders On Using Force by Steve Inskeep Podcast NPR - October 2, 2015 [Copyright 2015 NPR]...
• Mapping Police Violence
• Dispatches: Tracking US Police Brutality
• World Report 2015: United States
• 'Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women.'
• Despite Laws And Lawsuits, Quota-Based Policing Lingers. NPR Podcast.
• Where Are Black Children Safe?  By Roxane Gay 
  A video of a high school student being violently disciplined is a viral reminder of terrifying vulnerability.
• News Q’s | Race and Discipline in Spotlight After South Carolina Officer Drags Student By Katherine Schulten 

 

BROKEN WINDOWS

• Does the Broken Windows Theory justify heavy policing of minor crimes?
• Law and Disorder: A View on Broken Windows from Journal Square

 

RACE AND POLICING

• Confronting the Silence: Perspectives and Dialogue on Structural Racism against People of African Descent Worldwide
• Letter to My Son
  “Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
• Analysis Finds Higher Expulsion Rates for Black Students
• Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk
• Officers’ Race Matters Less Than You Think
• Law Enforcement and Race
• For Brooklyn’s District Attorney, Year One Is a Trial by Fire.
• Kwame Anthony Appiah: The Complexities of Black Folk
• Officers’ Race Matters Less Than You Think
• Law Enforcement and Race
• ‘A Conversation With Police on Race’
• ‘A Conversation With My Black Son’
• ‘A Conversation About Growing Up Black’

 

MASS INCARCERATION

• The program to end mass incarceration at the ACLU focuses on reducing the use of the criminal justice system to address social issues and substantially reducing the number of people behind bars.
• The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
• Ella Baker Report: The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
• Mass Incarceration, Visualized
• The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality

 

FERGUSON COMMISSION REPORT/COMMENTARY

• Follow-up to Ferguson: How a Former Homicide Detective's Federal Lawsuit Attempts to Apply a Civil War-era Law to Today's Civil Rights Violations
• Ferguson Commission’s report: Forward Through Ferguson
• Ferguson Commission Report Highlights Racial Inequality In St. Louis Region (Podcast)

 

IMPLICIT BIAS

• College Lecturer Accuses New York Police of Racial Bias After Encounter on His Roof
• White Officer is Arrested in Killing of Black Man
• The Racial Reality of Policing: Police bias and misconduct are serious problems—but so is the epidemic of homicide among young black men

 

LEGISLATION

• A Law That Hides Police Misconduct From the Public
• The Cato Institute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project

 

POLICE PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY POLICING

• Police Group Makes A Big Admission About 'Justifiable' Police Shootings
• Bratton Says New York Police Officers Must Fight Bias.

 

POLICE TRAINING

• Re-Engineering Training On Police Use of Force
• Why I require FBI agents to visit the Holocaust Museum By James B. Comey April 16
• The Racial Reality of Policing
  Police bias and misconduct are serious problems—but so is the epidemic of homicide among young black men

 

STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY

• Misplaced priorities: Over incarcerate, under educate
• Crews scour Hudson County for 2014 Point-In-Time Homeless Count.
• ‘Our Kids,’ by Robert D. Putnam Book Review

 

ACADEMIC/PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH

• The Brennan Center for Justice
• The Crime Report
• Police and Community: An Archive of Academic and Public Policy Research on Policing (Maintained by The Center on Race, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
• State Sanctioned
• Police Brutality: Democracy Now! Independent Global News Coverage of Police Brutality Cases