Reading Time: 2 minutes Experts to examine systemic problems, make evidence-based recommendations
Tag: Police Brutality
Racism is arbitrary and pointless
Reading Time: 3 minutes We don’t have to look hard to realize many of our relatives have been victims of racism. If we live in comfort and freedom, it’s only because we’re lucky
Police failures begin with bad leadership
Reading Time: 4 minutes Policing, despite its facade of altruism and professionalism, remains incredibly insular, self-promoting and conservative
Bad leadership at the heart of police brutality
Reading Time: 5 minutes There’s no place for cowards, racists, sociopaths or murderers in a police department. And yet such officers are detected with alarming regularity
Racist cop shows, biased news fuel public fears of crime
Reading Time: 4 minutes Portrayals of violent crime in pop culture and media are skewing people’s perception of how likely it is to happen to them, says U of A expert
Social change hampered by Neanderthals
Reading Time: 3 minutes Culture change is a messy process. We need to stand up to the ignorant in this fight for social justice
Half measures won’t solve the problem with police
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s time to reduce funding to police and reallocate those dollars to more proactive ways to reduce crime
Defunding police a movement whose time has come
Reading Time: 3 minutes Reallocating some police funding to social workers, making body cameras mandatory would cut unnecessary violence
Why today’s police are failing ‘to serve and protect’
Reading Time: 4 minutes Too often, the action is grossly disproportionate to the need. There’s something deeply wrong with the way some police operate
How police departments can root out violent members
Reading Time: 5 minutes U of A sociologist recommends training, screening, higher education, more accountability and better gender balance