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As the political season in the United States heats up, it has become controversial in certain circles to say “Black Lives Matter.” A few (perhaps even many) object because they don’t believe that black lives matter equally. Most, however, it seems to me, are responding out of fundamental misunderstandings of what “Black Lives Matter” means in the USA in 2016. (I will set aside crude partisanship as an explanation that, to the extent that it is true, does not require further comment.)
The post Saying “Black lives matter” appeared first on OUPblog.
On 11 August 1965, the Watts Riots exploded in Los Angeles taking the nation by surprise. Sparked by an arrest that escalated into a skirmish between local residents and police, the riots lasted six days. They laid bare the seething discontent that lay just beneath the surface in many black communities.
The post Watts Riots: Black Families Matter appeared first on OUPblog.
The month of September marks commemorative services for both the United Kingdom's National Police Memorial Day on the 27th, and the Australian Police Remembrance Day on the 29th.
The post Improving police and public safety: a win-win opportunity? appeared first on OUPblog.
In a recent Huffington Post piece entitled “Police Shootings Are About Class as Well as Race,” Jesse Jackson argued that the issue of police violence specifically, and an unjust and excessive criminal justice system in general, are disproportionately experienced by the poor, irrespective of race.
The post Police shootings and the black community appeared first on OUPblog.
Over the past year the number of questionable police use-of-force incidents has been ever present. The deaths of Eric Garner in New York, Michael Brown in Missouri, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Ohio, are but just a few tragic cases.
The post The visual, experiential, and research dimensions of police coercion appeared first on OUPblog.
