Jennifer Morinigo | November 23, 2016 | Policing
Researchers from the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, presented the findings of a recent study completed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Spokane, Washington. The preliminary results of the study suggest that officers do not use less force...
Jennifer Morinigo | September 23, 2016 | Policing
Policing project Adviser Sherrilyn Ifill joined civil rights activist DeRay McKesson and Google’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer, David Drummond, for a Google Zeitgeist event on policing tactics, systemic racism, changing policy...
Dara Lovitz | September 5, 2016 | Policing
Until recent years, the unfortunate phenomenon of police officer-involved killings of persons of color has been largely kept out of media focus. But now mainstream media channels are covering the incidents and giving voice to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement,...