by lindaoppenheim | Mar 8, 2015 | Article, Events
President Obama spoke at the 50th anniversary commemoration of Bloody Sunday and the attack on marchers attempting to cross the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama, demanding the right to vote. A couple of days earlier, in Madison, Wisconsin, marchers protested...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 5, 2015 | Article, Documents
The federal Department of Justice issued a report on March 4, 2015 of findings from its investigation of the Ferguson, MO police department and the shooting of Michael Brown. It cleared Darren Wilson, the white officer who shot Michael Brown, of civil rights...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 4, 2015 | Article, Awards
“An investigation by the Yale Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit into a complaint that a YPD officer inappropriately used a firearm in detaining Tahj Blow ’16 has found that the officer’s actions complied with department policy.”
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 19, 2015 | Continuing Conversations, Opinion
Charles Blow brings his usual brilliant analysis to the talk about policing and race by FBI director James Comey, in his February 15, 2015 column in the New York Times. “What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 15, 2015 | Article
Los Vegas police department was able to change the reactions of its police force to young black males through implicit bias training. Hear the story on NPR’s This American Life.