How do We Seek “Justice for George”?
Putting a more compassionate and humane face to a grave inhumanity cannot be justice.
Tag: policing
What SUNY Albany Tells Us About the Policing of University Space
By examining the rise of university police departments at State University of New York at Albany, the first SUNY school to arm their campus police officers, this article provides a historical perspective to better understand contemporary instances of racialized policing behind university gates.
Broken Windows, Shattered Lives: Mapping Technology and Policing Failures in Giuliani’s New York
While it is not fair to say that technology is bad, the New York City Police Department (NYPD), with its deployment of geospatial software for crime analysis in the 1990s, provides an example of how technology can become dangerous.
Who Remembers Francis Galatis?: Police Brutality, Post-War New York, and a Movement Unrealized
Officer John Brullman’s conviction for violating Francis Galatis’s civil rights was the high water mark of years of activism against police brutality. But it wasn’t really a victory, it was a right hand turn.
Poverty is Synonymous with Misery
The failure engendered in poverty is a collective one. It represents our willingness to accept a world where “the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many”—a world where those living east of the Anacostia are condemned to destitution and misery.
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