Draft Democratic proposal seeks big changes to policing
Reps. Bass and Nadler join Sens. Harris and Booker in seeking backers for the most sweeping initiative in decades.
by Josh Bresnahan
Tagged: 2020
What’s Wrong with Police Unions?
Despite broad support for unionization on the political left, police unions have become public enemy number one for academics and activists concerned about race and police violence.
By Benjamin Levin
The History Of Police In Creating Social Order In The U.S.
NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with Chenjerai Kumanyika, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, about the historical role of police in preserving power and social order.
Heard on All Things Considered
George Floyd: Five pieces of context to understand the protests
For more than a week, protests have shaken cities across the US following the death of a black man in police custody.
By Alice Cuddy
Police the Public, or Protect It? For a U.S. in Crisis, Hard Lessons From Other Countries
Those who want to remake a police model that has set off unrest and despair would do well to look at the experiences of Asia, Africa and Europe.
By Amanda Taub
Outside agitators? Where’s the proof?
From the WBEN Newsroom
Read the full article here.
“Politicians and police have been raising the spectre of “outside agitators” since the day protests began in Buffalo. For the most part, local media has amplified the message: Outsiders are slipping into town to incite violence and destruction. But arrest records suggest that narrative is not true.”
Protests could reshape post-coronavirus campus environments
By Paul Lane
Read the full article from Buffalo Business First, here.
“‘Over the last decade, we have replaced conversations around race with conversations around inclusion and diversity, which shifts the conversation and issue away so that we don’t have to deal with all of those complex issues that are related to grappling and dealing with race. Inclusion and diversity, in my view, has been nothing more than a smokescreen to marginalize the discussions of race and, in particular, the issues facing African Americans,’ said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at UB’s School of Architecture and Planning.”
Jacobs School responds to Floyd killing
By Ellen Goldbaum
Read the full article from UBNow, here.
“Medical students and residents are engaged in the intense work of learning how to become physicians who can best serve the communities where they will eventually practice. At the same time, what’s happening in society at large has a major impact on shaping their medical education. Last week, students, medical residents, faculty and administrators of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at UB and the units in UB’s academic health center took action to respond to the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police and the international protests it has engendered against the backdrop of the global COVID-19 pandemic.”
Scant proof of “outside agitators”
Politicians and police have little solid evidence to back up their claims that outside forces are behind protest disturbances here.
By Geoff Kelly
“The New Normal”
An interview with Henry-Louis Taylor, Jr.
“People are saying ‘We don’t want to go back to the old way. We don’t want to find, on the other side of the apocalypse, the same old type of society…that we saw before.'”