Action-packed police procedurals can often give audiences the false impression that violent crime excuses the excessive use of force by police.
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Television shows about police often perpetuate false narratives about violent crime that excuse police violence.
Police in Tulsa, Okla., march toward a crowd of demonstrators on June 20, 2020.
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Scholars who study policing explain what they have found that could help reduce police prejudice and violence.
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As a former NZ Police sergeant, I know firsthand how police fatalities shape one’s behaviour. The recent shooting of two officers in Auckland cuts to the heart of NZ’s trust-based policing policies.
Contact tracing apps are coming to Canada, but there are privacy concerns.
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Police departments have suggested using contact tracing approaches to track protesters, raising concerns about data and privacy.
Does college hold the answer to police violence?
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When it comes to making law enforcement professionals less likely to resort to use of force, higher education goes a long way, research shows.
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What place do police officers have in UK schools?
Body cameras are increasingly being worn by police forces, like the Vancouver Police Department, to record officer interactions.
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The use of body cameras by police forces raises questions about surveillance, privacy and regulation.
Protesters in front of Boston Police Headquarters during a United Against Racist Police Terror Rally on June 7, 2020.
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Across the United States, police are shielded from both public and departmental accountability by multiple layers of contractual and legislative protections.
A protester holds up a sign with Breonna Taylor’s name. Taylor was killed by police officers on March 13.
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Young men make up the majority of black people killed by police in the US. That’s fed a perception that black women are somehow shielded from the threat of police violence. They aren’t.
Police forces have a wide range of options for monitoring individuals and crowds.
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Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.
There are currently at least four major calls to defund police forces in Canada. Here, hundreds of people participate in a Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of Saskatchewan’s Legislative Building in Regina on June 2, 2020.
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Another world is possible when we defund and reimagine policing as we know it. A review of police budgets could mean more money towards community initiatives.
Bicycle police officers keep an eye on Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto on Sunday, May 24, 2020. Warm weather and a reduction in COVID-19 restrictions has many looking to the outdoors for relief.
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The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
Actors Dennis Franz and Jimmy Smits on the set of ‘NYPD Blue.’
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For decades, there’s been a concerted effort by law enforcement to ensure their perspectives – and not those of people being policed – dominate prime-time television.
Calls to ‘defund the police’ are growing across the US.
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Iraq, Guatemala and the autonomous region of Bougainville have all tried to demilitarise their police forces – with varying degrees of success.
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Will police accept the challenge of ending
Māori over-representation at every stage of the criminal justice system in Aotearoa-New Zealand?
Anti-racism demonstrators take a knee near Toronto Police Headquarters during a march, June 6, 2020.
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There is no good police versus bad police. Police are police. They are the states’ organ of repression. There are a myriad of better scenarios than the current one.
There have already been at least 100 instances of journalists being assaulted or harassed while covering recent protests.
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For almost a century, American popular culture has perpetuated the idea that only journalists working in foreign countries could be in danger.
Sheriffs deputies in riot gear move in on protesters in Los Angeles, California.
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The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
Gregory and Travis McMichael who killed Ahmaud Arbery during an attempted citizen’s arrest.
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Laws enabling citizens to apprehend suspects, which date back to medieval England, were historically used in the US to suppress slave revolts.
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Police officers put themselves and their families in harm’s way in order to stop crime and protect us. But who protects them?