10/27/20-Washington Post “If police departments start to reject applicants because they have implicit biases there will be no one left to hire,” Lorie Fridell, CJRA Expert.
Author: Caitlin Kizielewicz
10/15/20-Indianapolis Star “A big question is when officers have to turn their cameras on, as well as when they can turn them off,” Nancy La Vigne, CJRA Expert.
10/09/20-Arizona Republic “We are now seeing the fringes, particularly on the right, but across the ideological spectrum, holding greater sway,” Brian Levin, CJRA Expert.
09/14/20-LA Times “It’s the precursor to the very behaviors that we as a collective want to put a stop to, which is police violence. I foresee some real tensions between on-the-ground officers and on-the-ground folks who question them,” Erin Kerrison, CJRA Expert.
In the past decade, many law enforcement agencies have adopted the use of body-worn cameras (BWCs) to improve police conduct, accountability, and transparency, especially when it comes to using force. But it is not yet known whether BWCs actually reduce officers’ use of force. A new meta-analysis examined 30 studies of law enforcement use of […]
09/09/20-Chicago Tribune “It will absolutely be perceived as a punitive measure as opposed to something that becomes part of mandatory training for officers,” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.
08/31/20-Prisonpolicy.org “The study findings suggest that increasing SROs does not improve school safety and that by increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents it increases the criminalization of school discipline,” Gottfredson et al., CJRA study.
08/26/20-Institute for Nonprofit News “The challenge now is to use the micro data on careers to flesh out how this process plays out over the life course,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/26/20-The Crime Report “We have already been using the micro data to consider cohort differences in sub-populations. It turns out that the sentencing shocks have been felt most acutely among the African-American population,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.
08/24/20-News Break “We believe that this occurs because these individuals accumulated an extended criminal history under a determinate sentencing regime—implemented in 1994 and still in effect today—that systematically increases punishment for individuals with prior convictions,” Shawn Bushway, CJRA Expert.