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Women don’t feel safe outside and they don’t feel safe inside. Street lighting doesn’t solve the problem.
The biggest problem with using the military to fight rime is that soldiers are not trained for law enforcement, but warfare, using maximum force.
Data on Dallas police shootings, including incidents when police choose not to shoot, shows that race is not a significant factor.
In Australia, far fewer people are killed by police firearms than in the US – there are clear ways to ensure we never go down that path.
As the service becomes more professional and diverse, the less it can be influenced by boys’ clubs.
A new breed of officers hold different views on what it means to be in the police.
It is often assumed that police are at higher risk of suicide than other members of the community because of the stress involved in their jobs. But the picture is more complicated than that.
The Baltimore Police Department is found to have violated the civil rights of poor blacks. A historian explains why those findings are eerily similar to how the city treated blacks in the 1800s.
With citizens filming police, and police recording public encounters, the key to the truth is establishing a clear timeline of events.
While the unacceptably high rate of police murders in South Africa attracts much media coverage, the bigger problem of suicide among police receives little focus.
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
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Professor of Criminology, University of Portsmouth
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Senior Lecturer in Policing, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
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Consultant World Health Organisation Health Security, Professor and Chair of Policing and Criminal Justice Western Sydney University and Senior Research Associate of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge, University of Johannesburg, Western Sydney University
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PhD, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Journalism, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of the Sociology of Gender and Education, Institute of Education, UCL
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Professor of Film and Feminist Media Studies, Anglia Ruskin University
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Research Assistant, Media, Communication, and Sociology Department, University of Leicester
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Professor of Law and Environmental Justice, Anglia Ruskin University
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Canada Research Chair in Inequality and Gender, Western University
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Assistant Professor of Criminology, University of Texas at Dallas
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Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
