USC Dornsife/LA Times Poll: Most Californians don’t feel mistreated by police, but believe others have been unfairly targeted Read more »
Few Say Police Forces Nationally Do Well in Treating Races Equally
Amid continuing tensions over the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Mo., most Americans give relatively low marks to police departments around the country for holding officers accountable for misconduct, using the appropriate amount of force, and treating racial and ethnic groups equally. However, most also continue to […] Read more »
Ferguson Reveals Blacks’ Unfinished Journey
The tragic shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, has sparked an intense debate about the state of race relations in America, but there’s little indication much will change. Predictably, Barack Obama, the first black president, is at the center of the debate. CONT. […] Read more »
Did the protesters and police in Ferguson go too far?
The shooting of Michael Brown – an unarmed 18-year-old African-American man who was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri – has unleashed a wave of protests in Ferguson that have turned violent at times, as well as a forceful response by local police. Fifty-nine percent of […] Read more »
Self-Segregation: Why It’s So Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson
The shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the anger poured out in response by Ferguson’s mostly black population, has snapped the issue of race into national focus. The incident has precipitated a much larger conversation, causing many Americans to question […] Read more »
Demilitarizing the police is not an option. What is?
… Why do some incidents of police violence mobilize the public into action, while others are dismissed as an everyday occurrence? In my research on police reform in post-communist societies, I learned that it takes a special type of tragedy to prompt a politically engaged public to demand greater police […] Read more »