#Policing

It's Going Down

IGD_News

As the Trumpian state officially embraces extra-judicial murder of political enemies + the deputization of far-Right groups in the lead up to the 2020 election, the Center moves to the

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. What is conservatism and why am I a conservative. In my view, a conservative is a person who believes (1) in original sin; (2) there are no solutions, only

Reclaim the Block

reclaimtheblock

Today, the Minneapolis Charter Commission voted to stall a proposed amendment that would have removed MPD from the city charter, in spite of hours of public testimony from Minneapolis residents

Cal Webb

cjrwebb

Now you know what terrible algorithms can do, consider that this is what’s been happening to people (including children) for multiple years now in parts of life that don’t concern

Brian Doucet

bmdoucet

The @RegionWaterloo bike lanes are not about catering to wealthy 'cyclists' in gentrified parts of the city. They are about creating a more just and equitable community and developing infrastructure

ribaadom

ribaadom

My great grand father was a Bundist. That's how that side of my family got refugee status in the USSR relatively early, because he knew Communist cadre and they put

Dallas Wood

dedubyadubya

This new paper plus recent twitter debate on Becker’s crime model made want to do a quick thread on how Becker stands up to the data. The way I see

b-boy bouiebaisse

jbouie

Here, Du Bois is useful. "The black man is a person who must ride 'Jim Crow' in Georgia." Which is to say, what makes Harris "black in an American context"

Sophia Fantauzzi

FantauzziSophia

Over the course of the semester, I have been working on a policy brief for PLCY220 at UNC that details police reform and community reinvestment. After the rise of protests

Gavin Hales

gmhales

It's worth repeating what the @ukhomeoffice research on #stopsearch looked at, and what it found. @HackneyAbbott https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/do-initiatives-involving-substantial-increases-in-stop-and-search-reduce-crime-a

Cipher of the Golden Spatula

snarkylicious

I'm seeing a lot of hot takes on what to do about police brutality on my TL. Abolishing them - that's never gonna happen; training them - they're already trained

daanis 🔥👊🏽💃🏽

gindaanis

Nell Irvin Painter's History of White People is necessary reading. We think so often of a Black/White binary that we forget all the racism *within* whiteness. We forget how permeable

Rebekah Fenton, MD

RFentonMD

You ever just sit and get so frustrated by inequity that it brings tears to your eyes?As I finished the last chapter of @thenewjimcrow by Michelle Alexander, I thought about

Hip Hop & Higher Education Online Conference 2021

HipHop_HigherEd

Hi everyone! Today we celebrate @JoyWhite2 's insightful & accessible book Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City, which shows how music & rap specifically are key to understanding

Darren Byler

dtbyler

Just to reiterate footnote number 8 in my dissertation: https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/42946/Byler_washington_0250E_19242.pdf https://twitter.com/IAF__FAI/status/1292190573017755648 1. It is important

🇨🇦Hell_Berta🇨🇦

Hell_Berta

So $2,000,000 dollars to hire a firm to study policing? @jkenney @YourAlberta @Alberta_UCP Are you dumb? Are you stupid? Or are you just Dumb & Stupid? Let me break it