The militarization of local police departments has been associated with an increase in police violence against citizens.
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Policing – Analysis and Comment
African Americans have long taken to the streets to protest against racial injustice. While some progress has been made, police violence remains an ever-present reality.
The policing of lockdown places the entire population at the centre of a huge public order operation. The public they once protected from threats has itself become the threat.
The recent tragic deaths of four Victorian police officers have highlighted the dangers to those whose job it is to protect the community.
Black lives are further in peril in a time of COVID-19. Subject to death on both the public health and policing fronts, we will not be silent.
Current restrictions remind us of the value of access to public space and one another. Yet even before COVID-19 some people were excluded and targeted, so a return to the status quo isn’t good enough.
With officers being hit by illness, arrests have dropped during the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile crime rates have remained static, or even fallen. Is it time to rethink policing?
Decriminalizing medical and recreational marijuana may exacerbate racial inequality within the criminal justice system, among other things.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
History shows us that when police forces apply the rules unevenly, some groups are hit harder than others.
Coronavirus calls on police to ensure people are obeying the new rules, and to continue their essential function of keeping the peace.
Recently, police forces have come under criticism for their engagement of facial recognition technologies. But pandemic response plans may increasingly incorporate surveillance.
There are few guarantees that the facial recognition system is secure or even that it is accurate.
Cyber security firms have sparked a revolution similar to the spread of private police forces.
The RCMP have long been responsible for violence against Indigenous people.
Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
Rather than helping and providing new unbiased tools for policing, police surveillance technologies tend to be reactionary and biased.
“Super-recognisers” who can identify a range of ethnicities could help increase fraud detection rates at passport control and decrease false conviction rates that have relied on CCTV.
Recruiting 20,000 new police officers may sound like a massive boost, but the reality is that the Conservative’s proposal will simply replace the 20,600 police officers who have already been cut.
The reasons the homicide rate is declining are complex, but a reduction in alcohol consumption and access to weapons are contributors.
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn’t necessarily inherently racist – though New York’s program was.
A terrorism expert explains the legislation that led to the attacker’s release.
Trials of the program found about 5% of offending drivers used their mobile phone with both hands, while the vehicle was moving.
A study looked at fines in 93 California cities. Cities with more black residents and more disproportionately white police forces tended to rely the most on fines.
A new batch of female crime writers are bringing their real life experiences of law enforcement to their work in a way that rings true for readers.