Forty years of data suggests atrocities are on the rise globally.
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The violence we’re witnessing on our phones impacts us on both on an individual and societal scale. This grief needs to be processed.
What do coroner’s inquests do, what don’t they do, and why are they often dominated by police perspectives rather than the community’s or the victim’s?
The public’s right to know often gives way to concerns about privacy, public safety and protecting evidence.
A criminal trial is a venue where not only individual police officers accused of crimes are put under public scrutiny, but so too are the training and tactics that officer received.
Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.
Research found that police officers killed more than 30,000 people from 1980 to 2018 – 17,000 more than official federal data suggests.
Evidence shows that many Black Americans experience police killings of unarmed Black people – even those they do not know – as traumatic events, causing acute physical and emotional distress.
In the wake of the conviction of the police officer who killed George Floyd, recent court decisions against what’s known as “qualified immunity” are promising.
Police officers face dangerous situations every day, and many suffer trauma as a result.
If you’re American – regardless of the color of your skin – racism structures how you think. Changing the system should change these implicit biases.
When professional athletes refuse to play, they engage in activism that can’t be co-opted by team owners and corporate sponsors.
Kenosha is the latest US city to see federal agents patrolling its protests. History suggests that supplanting the local police with a militarized national force rarely works out well.
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
Police are almost always the first responders in cases of mental health crisis. Too often these encounters turn bad, even deadly. But police were never meant to be in charge of US mental health care.
According to a new study, about 52 of every 100,000 men and boys, and about 3 of every 100,000 women and girls, are killed by police in the US.
A new project looks at the race of on-duty police officers and civilians involved in 917 fatal shootings in 2015.
Official records on police homicides are full of holes. A new study tries to fill in the gaps – and finds new evidence of racial and regional inequality.
Does it make sense to compare the percentage of black Americans shot by police to the percentage of black Americans in the population? A new analysis suggests a different way of looking at the data.
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Jerry Lee Fellow in Experimental Criminology and Lecturer in Evidence Based Policing, University of Cambridge
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