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Tag: Police
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
Defunding police requires understanding the role of policing
Reading Time: 5 minutes Demystifying police work is needed to increase public support for major reforms, argues U of A sociologist
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
What an Indigenous force can teach us about policing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Adding more weapons, equipment and officers doesn’t provide a straight line to happier and safer communities
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
Why Canada’s gun ban won’t stop shootings
Reading Time: 4 minutes Addressing the more complex problems of narcotics, smuggling, and terrorism will yield more effective and durable results
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