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 Victorian Police Academy is lit up in blue in honour of the four officers killed in last week’s road tragedy.
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The recent tragic deaths of four Victorian police officers have highlighted the dangers to those whose job it is to protect the community.
A woman waits for a streetcar in Toronto on April 16, 2020. The many Black people working in essential jobs do not have the luxury of staying home during the pandemic.
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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.
At a deserted Federation Square in Melbourne, the big screen broadcasts this message: ‘If you can see this, what are you doing? Go home.’
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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.
Police keeping a safe distance from patients awaiting COVID-19 tests at a New York hospital.
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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?
Marijuana decriminalization won’t end arrests.
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Recently, police forces have come under criticism for their engagement of facial recognition technologies. But pandemic response plans may increasingly incorporate surveillance.
Cyber security firms have sparked a revolution similar to the spread of private police forces.
Members of the RCMP look on as supporters of the Wet'suwet'en Nation block a road outside of RCMP headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Jan. 16, 2020.
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Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
Although surveillance technologies appear to be race-neutral, modern police surveillance technologies do not operate outside racial bias.
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“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.
Latest figures reveal homocides in Australia are at historic lows.
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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.