06/12/20-USA Today “Their contracts in various ways can often make it very difficult to remove or discipline police officers,’’ Daniel Nagin, CJRA Expert.
06/12/20-Star Telegram “To the extent that the tax is jeopardy, I think there may be a contentious battle ahead,” John Worrall, CJRA Expert.
06/12/20-Tennessean We’re seeing calls for more concrete and more radical corrections and reforms to policing than what we’ve seen in any time in modern history,” said Joe Schafer, CJRA Expert.
06/11/20-USA Today “People focus on how to make it less harmful, like by ending zero tolerance policies and adding more restorative justice programs.” Aaron Kupchik, CJRA Expert.
06/11/20-Business Insider “The problem is, traditionally, if police officers were to ask for help, they ended up being placed on what we call the ‘bow-and-arrow squadron’ – their service revolver was taken away and they were given a desk job.” Risdon Slate, CJRA Expert.
06/11/20-Business Insider “[There aren’t] any tools to deal with the experiences – other than ‘Suck it up, this is part of the job, be cool, calm, and collected.’” Maria Haberfeld, CJRA Expert.
06/10/20-USA Today “It’s tied to the larger issue of racism which affects all of our political and government systems.” Tamara Herold, CJRA Expert.
06/10/20-Wisconsin Public Radio “In the past, police have generally justified the killings of black and brown people by saying they feared for their lives and quite frankly, much of the general public have often sided with the police in thinking and saying ‘If he just did this, if he just said this, if he just […]
06/09/20-Washington Post In a byline article for the Washington Post, CJRA expert Cynthia Lum discusses the importance of public trust in the police and the requirement of more than just more training in implicit bias and de-escalation.
06/07/20-Washington Post “Seasoned officers will push away from what they learned in the academy and go to what works for them in the street,” Lorenzo Boyd, CJRA Expert.