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10/29/20-Politico “There are canaries in the coal mine, but … we don’t see the areas that are getting hurt because we don’t measure those areas,” Gbenga Ajilore, CJRA Expert.

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10/29/20-New York Times “The increase has had nothing to do with the political affiliation of your mayor,” Richard Rosenfeld, CJRA Expert.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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