New research shows police specialising in family violence are concerned current approaches leave victim-survivors unprotected.
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Members of the public might often react negatively to community notifications about people released from prison, especially if the individual has a violence past.
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Community notifications are intended to be helpful, however, they can also make reintegrating back into the community challenging for released individuals.
The Michigan State Police force is predominantly white and male.
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Confiscating firearms from alleged abusers might seem like a good idea, but it’s unlikely to make much of a difference.
Police drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024.
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Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
Members of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) at the scene of a homicide investigation in Hamilton, Ont., May 2023. The unit is charged with investigating potential misconduct by Ontario police officers.
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As climate change ravages coastal livelihoods, piracy is on the rise, imperilling seafarers and trade.
Students erect ‘shantytowns’ at Johns Hopkins University in 1986 to call for divestment from South Africa.
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In the 1980s, university administrators called the police on anti-apartheid protesters, threatened to revoke their scholarships and ordered staff to demolish encampments.
Many police officers are instructed to look for signs of excited delirium when encountering members of the public who may seem distressed.
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The diagnosis of excited delirium has come under fire from doctors and other mental health professionals, but is still used by police forces, sometimes with tragic results. It’s time to end its use.
A Surrey Police crest is seen on the side of one of the force’s vehicles in Surrey, B.C., in July 2023. The provincial government wants the city to move ahead with an independent police force instead of using the RCMP.
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The current blue-on-blue battle between competing law enforcement agencies in a large British Columbia city does little to strengthen public trust in the rule of law and in our police forces
An interaction with police caused one young man’s heart rate to spike to 130 beats per minute, and it stay elevated for 30 minutes.
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A social science researcher followed a dozen teens from different neighborhoods in North, West and Northeast Philadelphia, tracking their family histories and heart rates as they navigated daily life.
New York City’s use of stop-and-frisk was found to be unconstitutional in 2013.
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Stopping someone against their will can be false imprisonment or even kidnapping. There are laws that determine who is acting as a hero and who is acting as a vigilante.
Predictive policing aimed to identify crime hot spots and ‘chronic’ offenders but missed the mark.
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Predictive policing has been a bust. The Department of Justice nurtured the technology from researchers’ minds to corporate production lines and into the hands of police departments.
Police officers talk to students during a recruiting event at Temple University.
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In a bid to reduce violent crime, the city’s new mayor is calling for a revitalization of a controversial practice the police department had mostly abandoned.
Bulldozed land at the planned site of a controversial police training facility, with Atlanta in the distance.
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The food theft crisis is framed as a threat to paying customers. This furthers the divide between those who can still afford groceries and those who cannot.
People displaced by gang violence shelter at a gymnasium in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in August 2023.
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