06/18/20-Washington Post In a byline article for the Washington Post, CJRA expert Justin Nix discusses the risks of defunding or disbanding the police if done hastily.
06/17/20-Yahoo News “The boogaloo boys believe in armed insurrection and include attacks on the police,” Brian Levin, CJRA Expert.
06/16/20-Business Insider “I would be surprised if these programs yielded strong, lasting changes in police behavior, because biases and stereotypes are so ingrained in people’s minds that it is not realistic to think a single training would result in significant reductions in bias,” Jacinta Gau CJRA Expert.
06/16/20-Business Insider “Police self-identify as warriors. The thinking is ‘We’ve got to find the bad guy, we’ve got to fight evil,’ as opposed to ‘We’re supposed to serve the community, and we’re supposed to help people’.” Lorenzo Boyd, CJRA Expert.
06/15/20-Boston Globe “One of the biggest — if not the biggest — hindrances to fully adopting aspects of community policing, is the police subculture,” Tammy Rinehart Kochel, CJRA Expert.
06/15/20-Boston Globe “The concept of community policing can be traced back to the 1960s and ’70s,” Stephen Mastrofski, CJRA Expert.
06/15/20-Yahoo News “What activists have to do as well as police is roll up our sleeves together and figure this out,” Brian Levin, CJRA Expert.
06/15/20-Yahoo News “Policing has a historical base of controlling and containing black people,” Delores Jones-Brown, CJRA Expert.
06/15/20-Wall Street Journal “You can do everything right, and still have something go awry,” Nancy La Vigne, CJRA Expert.
06/14/20-Wall Street Journal “I think that there’s a new set of expectations that’s emerging in this primary. And as such, all the primary results will inform the Democratic Party’s positioning,” Susan Kang, CJRA Expert.