Topic: Bias in Policing

DHS Open for Business: How Tech Corporations Bring the War on Terror to Our Neighborhoods

In the aftermath of 9/11, the George W. Bush administration launched the global “War on Terror,” capitalizing on public fears...

Ticketing and Turnout: The Participatory Consequences of Low-Level Police Contact

The American criminal legal system is an important site of political socialization: scholars have shown that criminal legal contact reduces...

Effect of Abandoned Housing Interventions on Gun Violence, Perceptions of Safety, and Substance Use in Black Neighborhoods: A Citywide Cluster Randomized Trial (Philadelphia)

Question: Do structural interventions to abandoned houses lead to improvements in health and safety in low-income, Black neighborhoods? Findings: In...

Police Sexual Violence in New Orleans

Sexual violence is an everyday practice of policing. Even in New Orleans, where in 2014 the federal government placed the...

The Social Costs of Policing

Nationwide, policymakers and the public are considering how best to address crime. Deeper insights on policing should guide decisions about...

Abolition and the State: A Discussion Tool

As movements to defund and divest from policing and invest in community safety expand in the wake of the 2020...

Copaganda Arrests Our Imaginations

"There’s so much deference to police around everything to do with public safety. What they say is taken as gospel...

Reimagining Community Safety in California: From Deadly and Expensive Sheriffs to Equity and Care-Centered Wellbeing

Today, Catalyst California’s (formerly Advancement Project California) new Reimagine Justice & Safety program released Reimagining Community Safety in California: From...

Beyond the Ballot Box: A Conversation About Democracy and Policing in the United States

Political scientist Hakeem Jefferson (Stanford University) facilitated a discussion about race, policing, and the state of American democracy with fellow...

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