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The John Jay campus community is responding in a variety of ways to the issues raised in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases, as well as to the recent grand jury decisions. There have been vibrant discussions in classrooms as well as several forums and conversations hosted across campus in recent weeks to allow faculty, staff, students and alumni to make their voices heard. Many of the College’s faculty experts have been quoted in the media in relation to the grand jury decisions. John Jay students have also participated in on-air panel discussions. A select list of media coverage is below.

Events on campus included a Community Conversation on Thursday, Dec. 4, when nearly 100 campus members – faculty, staff, and students – congregated to express their opinions and feelings around the issues of justice that these decisions have raised across the country. Dean Kenneth Holmes and President Jeremy Travis attended and opened the Conversation. The forum provided a safe space for the community to share their responses to these issues and to turn those feelings into positive advocacy and action.

Other events include a “Hateful vs. Hurtful Speech” panel discussion and a film series where three films were screened and discussed: “Every Mother’s Son,” Enough is Enough” and “Fruitvale Station.” Student clubs sponsored two activism events linking global justice issues like Palestine, Mexico, and Ferguson. Additional events and conversations are being planned to provide further opportunity for community discussions to continue.

In the social media realm, the #JusticeForAll digital photo gallery was created to house student expressions of what justice means to them.

Select list of John Jay faculty and students in the news media on the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases:

Protests shine light on deeper issues with modern justice
Boston Globe‎ - Dec. 17, 2014
By Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western December 16, 2014. How can we understand the demonstrations that ...

What the NYPD can teach us about police restraint after Eric ...
The Washington Post – December 16
Eugene O'Donnell, a former NYPD officer, served as an Assistant DA in ... vigil in Staten Island, N.Y. (Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post).

The Police-Community Divide - WNYC
WNYC – Dec. 12, 2014
John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor David Kennedy talks about initiatives that bridge the gap between communities and police.

Police officers weigh in on race relations in the U.S. - Videos
CBS News - Dec 11, 2014 – with John Jay students
Police officers weigh in on race relations in the U.S.. December 10, 2014, 9:39 PM |A CBS News Poll shows a racial divide when it comes to the public's ...

How Special Prosecutors Can Help Bring Police to Justice
Businessweek - Dec 11, 2014 – with Professor Eugene O’Donnell
... a former NYPD lieutenant who's now a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Because so few cases of police violence wind ...

Don't shoot
The Economist - Dec 11, 2014
Peter Moskos of John Jay College has come up with a measure to identify them, which checks the number of police shootings against the ...

Police Shooting Cases May Be Taken from Local Prosecutors
Politics In Color - Dec 11, 2014
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an associate professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College in New York City. She is author of “Race, Law, ...

U.S. Polce: Education levels and the use of force
MSNBC - Dec 10, 2014
Dr. Maria Haberfeld of John Jay College of Criminal Justice had some ... WF: What are your thoughts on the findings that a college education ...

How Many Police Kill Black Men? Without Database, We Can't Know
St. Louis Public Radio - Dec 10, 2014
Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer and now criminology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice called the ProPublica ...

Police wrestle with definition of chokehold
Los Angeles Times - Dec 9, 2014
... said Maria Haberfeld, chairwoman of the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College in New ...

Is Anti-Police Climate Making Cops More Hesitant In Dangerous ...
CBS Local - Dec 9, 2014
... and beyond anything that's required,” said Eugene O'Donnell, a former NYPD officer and professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

A Police Force Out of Control? Claims Against Over-Aggressive ...
Atlanta Black Star - Dec 9, 2014
In fact, a study released in October by the city's John Jay College for Criminal Justice found that police in New York City over the last three ...

Hopes pinned on Justice Department to lead charge on police reform
Al Jazeera America - Dec 9, 2014
Maria Maki Haberfeld, a political science professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, said she is not sure even the ...

America claims black lives matter, but police killings suggest
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 8, 2014
... 2,254 African Americans were lynched, according to research by Michael Pfeifer, an associate professor of history at the John Jay College of ...

Police React To Eric Garner Grand Jury Decision
WBUR - Dec 5, 2014
Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York City police officer who now lectures at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, spoke to Here & Now's ...

In the U.S., cops get the benefit of the doubt
Philly.com - Dec 5, 2014
As Eugene O'Donnell, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argued earlier this week, there is a difference between an act ...

Do Police Target Minorities? Eric Garner's Death Made Visible What ...
Bustle - Dec 5, 2014
Delores Jones-Brown, a law professor and director of the Center on Race, Crime and Statistics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, told ...

Is Eric Garner Video Sparking A Civil Rights Awakening In America?
KNPR - Dec 5, 2014
... which is baffling to Delores Jones-Brown, a professor of law and police science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

Was a New York police officer's chokehold on Eric Garner necessary?
CNN - Dec 4, 2014
Lawrence Kobilinsky, a forensic scientist and professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says that the chokehold he saw in ...

Why it's so difficult to charge police officers who kill
Washington Post - Dec 4, 2014
Candace McCoy, a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, told the Los Angeles Times that while she ...

Top US justice official promises probe after NYC police chokehold ...
Reuters - Dec 4, 2014
... can be allowed under certain circumstances, said Maria Haberfeld, who heads the law and criminal justice department at John Jay College.

Protests Erupt After Grand Jury Decides Not to Indict NYPD Officer in ...
Governing - Dec 4, 2014
But Candace McCoy, a former criminal and civil attorney who is now a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in ...

Was A New York Police Officer's Chokehold On Eric Garner ...
WIBW - Dec 4, 2014
Lawrence Kobilinsky, a forensic scientist and professor at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice, says that the chokehold he saw in ...“It does obviously raise profound safety questions,” said Eugene O'Donnell, a lecturer on police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Deep divides in ways to fix community police relations
Al Jazeera America - Dec 3, 2014
But these measures don't go far enough, according to Joe Giacalone, an adjunct professor of criminal justice at New York's John Jay College of ...

With Ferguson plan, Obama seeks to tip balance for police reform (+ ...
Christian Science Monitor - Dec 3, 2014
... professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, wrote recently. “The relevant question is political: Having given our police broad access ...

Intent to hurt Eric Garner needed for indictment: expert
New York Daily News - Dec 2, 2014
Eugene O'Donnell is a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He served 14 years as an NYPD officer, and was a prosecutor ...

Fewer homicides in New York City but most of the dead are black or ...
Newsday - Dec 1, 2014
Professor Eugene O'Donnell of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice hoped that the heated rhetoric after Ferguson doesn't interfere with the ...

Race and policing
The Economist - Nov 28, 2014
For Eugene O'Donnell, a former policeman-turned-lecturer at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the clumsy way Ferguson's police ...

Getting Beyond Ferguson | David M. Kennedy
The Huffington Post -Nov 20, 2014
Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's .... David M. Kennedy is a professor of criminal justice at John Jay College of ...