Alternatives to violent policing already exist in the daily practices of Nairobi residents who don’t depend on the police for safety.
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Policing – Análisis y Comentarios
CCTV is a popular form of digital evidence but it can be unreliable and problematic.
Interviews with women officers show the extent of misogynistic culture within police forces.
Brenda Lucki’s retirement will change the person in charge of the RCMP. But the organization’s deeper structural problems cannot be fixed with a change at the top.
Jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways – one of which depends on how the evidence is presented in court, a media scholar explains.
President Biden outlined his achievements in key policy areas and sketched out his plans for the rest of his term in office.
Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
The case of Tyre Nichols highlights how traffic stops can turn deadly. Traffic stops are also prone to racial bias, can break down community trust in police and yield few results, research shows.
The officers charged in the murder of a Black man in Memphis, Tenn., were part of the elite SCORPION squad. Such units have an ugly history.
Civil liberties groups in the UK and elsewhere want to stop the police from using this technology altogether, but that’s going too far.
UK police forces have a leadership problem.
Predictive policing has improved in leaps and bounds and become increasingly automated thanks to big data, data mining and powerful computers.
The federal government must implement a railway policing law that helps restore public confidence in law enforcement and provides justice to the families of those who die on the job.
Violence affects entire communities, even law-abiding residents.
Discussions of political interference are largely misdirected because they distract from the necessary and warranted criticisms of the RCMP’s mishandling of the mass shooting.
There are obviously better ways the Toronto Police — and other police services — could enhance public trust than through a social media campaign.
New research on police departments across the country reveals a significant link between the use of fatal force and college education – the more educated are less likely to use it.
Proactive, problem-oriented policing can have an impact on gun violence, but it is not widely used in Canada.
The government has opened a consultation about making public sexual harassment a distinct criminal offence.
A new book about George Floyd, the grandson of sharecroppers, murdered by a police officer in 2020, is a moving work of reportage and activism.
Requiring adult supervision for 16 and 17 year olds is undermining health and community, and a huge overreach from police.
A landmark report in 1999 concluded that the police were institutionally racist, but the new action plan fails to acknowledge it.
The large budgets allotted for urban policing must be reconsidered so that communities can explore safer alternatives.
Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion have vowed to strike at the fossil fuel industry.
Statistics on rape and sexual assault show an abysmal prosecution rate, and that cases can drag on for years.