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Striving for Anti-Racism: a Beginner's Journal!
Striving For Anti-Racism: A Beginner’s Journal BY BEYOND THINKING Special Thanks Anti-racism work does not happen in a vacuum. This journal would not be possible without the brilliance of Jennifer Wong, Karimah Edwards, Kyana Wheeler, Lauren Kite, and Cat Cuevas. Jennifer Wong, Creative Designer Attorney, and also the love of my life (!) Karimah Edwards, Editor Hummingbird Cooperative Kyana Wheeler, Anti-Racist Consultant and Advisor Kyana Wheeler Consulting Lauren Kite, Anti-Racist Consultant and Advisor Cat Cuevas, Anti-Racist Consultant and Advisor Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................4 How to Use This Journal........................................................ 7 I. WORKSHEETS & RESOURCES ................................. 9 Values ........................................................................................10 Emotions ................................................................................. 12 Racial Anxiety Self-Assessment (Round 1) .......14 Biases ........................................................................................ 16 Cultural Lenses ................................................................... 17 Privileges .................................................................................18 Privilege Bingo.................................................................... 19 Microaggressions .............................................................20 Common Forms of Resistance .............................. -
Bad Cops: a Study of Career-Ending Misconduct Among New York City Police Officers
The author(s) shown below used Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Justice and prepared the following final report: Document Title: Bad Cops: A Study of Career-Ending Misconduct Among New York City Police Officers Author(s): James J. Fyfe ; Robert Kane Document No.: 215795 Date Received: September 2006 Award Number: 96-IJ-CX-0053 This report has not been published by the U.S. Department of Justice. To provide better customer service, NCJRS has made this Federally- funded grant final report available electronically in addition to traditional paper copies. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice. Bad Cops: A Study of Career-Ending Misconduct Among New York City Police Officers James J. Fyfe John Jay College of Criminal Justice and New York City Police Department Robert Kane American University Final Version Submitted to the United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice February 2005 This project was supported by Grant No. 1996-IJ-CX-0053 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of views in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. -
Treading the Thin Blue Line: Military Special-Operations Trained Police SWAT Teams and the Constitution
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal Volume 9 (2000-2001) Issue 3 Article 7 April 2001 Treading the Thin Blue Line: Military Special-Operations Trained Police SWAT Teams and the Constitution Karan R. Singh Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj Part of the Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons Repository Citation Karan R. Singh, Treading the Thin Blue Line: Military Special-Operations Trained Police SWAT Teams and the Constitution, 9 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 673 (2001), https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol9/iss3/7 Copyright c 2001 by the authors. This article is brought to you by the William & Mary Law School Scholarship Repository. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj TREADING THE THIN BLUE LINE: MILITARY SPECIAL-OPERATIONS TRAINED POLICE SWAT TEAMS AND THE CONSTITUTION The increasing use of SWAT teams and paramilitaryforce by local law enforcement has been thefocus of a growingconcern regardingthe heavy-handed exercise of police power. Critics question the constitutionality ofjoint-training between the military and civilian police, as well as the Fourth Amendment considerationsraised by SWAT tactics. This Note examines the history, mission, and continuing needfor police SWAT teams, addressingthe constitutionalissues raisedconcerning training and tactics. It explains how SWATjoint-training with the military is authorized by federal law and concludes that SWAT tactics are constitutionallyacceptable in a majority of situations. Though these tactics are legal andconstitutionally authorized, this Note acknowledges the validfearscritics have regarding the abuse of such police authority, and the limitations of constitutionaltort jurisprudence in adequately redressingresulting injuries. INTRODUCTION Americans awoke on the morning of April 23,2000 to news images seemingly taken from popular counterterrorist adventure movies. -
Demonstrations, Demoralization, and Depolicing
Demonstrations, Demoralization, and Depolicing Christopher J. Marier Lorie A. Fridell University of South Florida Direct correspondence to Christopher J. Marier, Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave. SOC107, Tampa, FL 33620 (email: [email protected]; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-6315). Christopher J. Marier is a PhD candidate at the University of South Florida. His areas of interest include race and justice, policing, and cross-national research. He is a recipient of the University of South Florida Graduate Fellowship Award. Lorie A. Fridell is Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida, former Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum, and CEO of Fair and Impartial Policing, a national law enforcement training program. NOTE: Draft version 1.1, 8/10/2019. This paper has not been peer reviewed. This paper has not yet been published and is therefore not the authoritative document of record. Please do not copy or cite without authors’ permission. DEMONSTRATIONS, DEMORALIZATION & DEPOLICING 1 Abstract Research Summary This study examined relationships between public antipathy toward the police, demoralization, and depolicing using pooled time-series cross-sections of 13,257 surveys from law enforcement officers in 100 U.S. agencies both before and after Ferguson and contemporaneous demonstrations. The results do not provide strong support for Ferguson Effects. Post-Ferguson changes to job satisfaction, burnout, and cynicism (reciprocated distrust) were negligible, and while Post-Ferguson officers issued fewer citations, they did not conduct less foot patrol or attend fewer community meetings. Cynicism, which was widespread both before and after Ferguson, was associated with less police activity of all types. -
Stories of Fourth Amendment Disrespect: from Elian to the Internment
Fordham Law Review Volume 70 Issue 6 Article 18 2002 Stories of Fourth Amendment Disrespect: From Elian to the Internment Andrew E. Taslitz Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Andrew E. Taslitz, Stories of Fourth Amendment Disrespect: From Elian to the Internment, 70 Fordham L. Rev. 2257 (2002). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol70/iss6/18 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. It has been accepted for inclusion in Fordham Law Review by an authorized editor of FLASH: The Fordham Law Archive of Scholarship and History. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Stories of Fourth Amendment Disrespect: From Elian to the Internment Cover Page Footnote Visiting Professor, Duke University Law School, 2000-01; Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law; J.D., University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 1981, former Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I thank my wife, Patricia V. Sun, Esq., Professors Robert Mosteller, Sara Sun-Beale, Girardeau Spann, joseph Kennedy, Eric Muller, Ronald Wright, and many other members of the Triangle Criminal Law Working Group, for their comments on early drafts of this Article. I also thank my research assistants, Nicole Crawford, Eli Mazur, and Amy Pope, and my secretary, Ann McCloskey. Appreciation also goes to the Howard University School of Law for funding this project, and to the Duke University Law School for helping me see this effort through to its completion. -
How Black Lives Matter Changed American Museums
University of Mary Washington Eagle Scholar Student Research Submissions 4-26-2021 “Interrupt the status quo”: How Black Lives Matter Changed American Museums Jessica Lynch Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research Part of the American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Lynch, Jessica, "“Interrupt the status quo”: How Black Lives Matter Changed American Museums" (2021). Student Research Submissions. 397. https://scholar.umw.edu/student_research/397 This Honors Project is brought to you for free and open access by Eagle Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in Student Research Submissions by an authorized administrator of Eagle Scholar. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Interrupt the status quo”: How Black Lives Matter Changed American Museums Jessica Lynch AMST 485 Dr. Erin Devlin April 26, 2021 1 Abstract Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 were the catalyst for change in many institutions, particularly in museum collections and interpretive methods. This was especially true in museums located in Washington, District of Columbia; Atlanta, Georgia; Portland, Oregon; Los Angeles, California, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Prior to the protests, most art and history museums upheld a Eurocentric worldview that diminished the contributions of Black Americans. Widespread Black Lives Matter protests, however, forced the discussion of racial equality to the forefront of the American consciousness, encouraging many museums to take a public stance and incorporate Black collective memory into their collections. This thesis analyzes case studies from five American cities that show how museums have utilized the Black Lives Matter Movement’s momentum to create new content for the public. “I hereby declare upon my word of honor that I have neither given nor received unauthorized help on this work.” -Jessica Lynch 2 “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” --Desmond Tutu Few sectors of public life have avoided the reach of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. -
Effects of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Local Newspaper Attention to Black Victims of Lethal Policing
WHEN BLACK MOVEMENTS MATTER: EFFECTS OF THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT ON LOCAL NEWSPAPER ATTENTION TO BLACK VICTIMS OF LETHAL POLICING Todd Jiajin Lu A thesis submitted to the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences. Chapel Hill 2020 Approved by: Neal Caren Kenneth (Andy) Andrews Mosi Ifatunji Deen Freelon © 2020 Todd Jiajin Lu ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ii ABSTRACT Todd Lu: When Black Movements Matter: Effects of the Black Lives Matter Movement on Local Newspaper Attention to Black Victims of Lethal Policing (Under the direction of Neal Caren) Scholars of mass media and racism highlight racial stereotypes and legitimation of racist discourse in coverage of minority communities. However, the Black Lives Matter movement drew widespread media attention to high profile cases of police brutality against Black civilians and racist policing practices in the United States. Using a unique dataset of media coverage of 501 Black victims killed by US law enforcement between 2014 and 2016 in over two hundred local newspapers, this paper tests four main movement pathways—resource mobilization, frame resonance, political process theory, and social media activism—that explain why some Black victims killed by police received more local newspaper attention than others. This paper finds support for resource mobilization and frame resonance theories while no support for political process theory and social media activism. Black victims of lethal policing were more likely to receive local newspaper coverage when they were unarmed, where a local racial justice organization was present, and where local Black Lives Matter protests were present. -
Research Evaluation of the City of Columbus' Response to the 2020
Research Evaluation of the City of Columbus’ Response to the 2020 Summer Protests Trevor L. Brown, Ph.D. Carter M. Stewart, J.D. John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University Table of Contents 1 Overview 5 Executive Summary of Findings and Recommendations 11 Context: Systemic Racism, Policing and Protests 17 Columbus Context and Timeline of Key Events 25 Chapter 1: Citizen-Police Relations and the Protests; Community Member Trauma 32 Chapter 2: City and Columbus Division of Police Leadership and Incident Command 41 Chapter 3: Policy and Training 52 Chapter 4: Officer Wellness and Morale 57 Chapter 5: Mutual Aid 61 Chapter 6: Transparency, Accountability, Public Communication, and Social Media 67 Conclusion 69 Works Cited 80 Appendix A: Recommendations and Findings 92 Appendix B: Research Design, Methods, and Data 99 Appendix C: Columbus Police After Action Review Team 109 Appendix D: List of Acronyms Acknowledgements The research presented in this report benefitted from a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, disciplinary expertise, and professional experience. In particular, the lead researchers are indebted to the National Police Foundation, the primary subcontractor on this project. The National Police Foundation’s staff, notably Frank Straub and Ben Gorban, harnessed their expertise of policing across the United States and around the globe to ensure that the findings and recommendations aligned with the evolving knowledge base of policing best practice. We are grateful to the array of investigators and interviewers who volunteered their time, energy and expertise to conduct over 170 interviews in the midst of a global pandemic. Our Advisory Board also volunteered their time to guide the research and offer insights from a variety of disciplines that inform the as- sessment of protest behavior and police response. -
Black Lives Matter's Effect on Police Lethal Use-Of-Force
Black Lives Matter’s Effect on Police Lethal Use-of-Force∗ Travis Campbell† December 29, 2020 Abstract Has Black Lives Matter influenced police lethal use-of-force? A difference-in- differences design finds census places with Black Lives Matter protests experience a 15% to 20% decrease in police homicides over the ensuing five years, around 300 fewer deaths. The gap in lethal use-of-force between places with and without protests widens over these subsequent years and is most prominent when protests are large or frequent. This result holds for alternative specifications, estimators, police homicide datasets, and population screens; however, it does not hold if lethal use-of-force is normalized by violent crime or arrests. Protests also influence local police agencies, which may explain the reduction. Agencies with local protests become more likely to obtain body-cameras, expand community policing, receive a larger operating budget, and reduce the number of property crime-related arrests, but forego some black officer employment and college education requirements. JEL Codes: K42, Z13, D74, Keywords: Black Lives Matter, Police, Law and Economics, Police Homicides, Lethal Use-of-force, Law Enforcement ∗I am grateful to Lee Badgett, Deepankar Basu, Ina Ganguli, Kathryne Young and the participants of the 2019 Umass/New School graduate student workshop for helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this paper. All errors remain my own. †Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 105 Gordon Hall, 412 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002. For correspondence, email: [email protected]. 1. Introduction Reacting to the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin in 2013, Alicia Garza posted her reaction to Facebook: “black people. -
Blue Lives Matter
COP FRAGILITY AND BLUE LIVES MATTER Frank Rudy Cooper* There is a new police criticism. Numerous high-profile police killings of unarmed blacks between 2012–2016 sparked the movements that came to be known as Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName, and so on. That criticism merges race-based activism with intersectional concerns about violence against women, including trans women. There is also a new police resistance to criticism. It fits within the tradition of the “Blue Wall of Silence,” but also includes a new pro-police movement known as Blue Lives Matter. The Blue Lives Matter movement makes the dubious claim that there is a war on police and counter attacks by calling for making assaults on police hate crimes akin to those address- ing attacks on historically oppressed groups. Legal scholarship has not comprehensively considered the impact of the new police criticism on the police. It is especially remiss in attending to the implications of Blue Lives Matter as police resistance to criticism. This Article is the first to do so. This Article illuminates a heretofore unrecognized source of police resistance to criticism by utilizing diversity trainer and New York Times best-selling author Robin DiAngelo’s recent theory of white fragility. “White fragility” captures many whites’ reluctance to discuss ongoing rac- ism, or even that whiteness creates a distinct set of experiences and per- spectives. White fragility is based on two myths: the ideas that one could be an unraced and purely neutral individual—false objectivity—and that only evil people perpetuate racial subordination—bad intent theory. Cop fragility is an analogous oversensitivity to criticism that blocks necessary conversations about race and policing. -
Police Accountability Task Force Report
Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve REPORT April 2016 Police Accountability Task Force | 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgements ...........................................................................................................................................iv Glossary of Terms ...............................................................................................................................................v Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................1 The Tipping Point................................................................................................................................................... 2 The Work of the Police Accountability Task Force............................................................................................. 4 Community Engagement ...................................................................................................................................... 5 How did we get to this point? Some Overarching Findings.............................................................................. 6 Other Key Findings By Working Group ............................................................................................................. 13 Recommendations.............................................................................................................................................. -
NPRC) VIP List, 2009
Description of document: National Archives National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) VIP list, 2009 Requested date: December 2007 Released date: March 2008 Posted date: 04-January-2010 Source of document: National Personnel Records Center Military Personnel Records 9700 Page Avenue St. Louis, MO 63132-5100 Note: NPRC staff has compiled a list of prominent persons whose military records files they hold. They call this their VIP Listing. You can ask for a copy of any of these files simply by submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to the address above. The governmentattic.org web site (“the site”) is noncommercial and free to the public. The site and materials made available on the site, such as this file, are for reference only. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals have made every effort to make this information as complete and as accurate as possible, however, there may be mistakes and omissions, both typographical and in content. The governmentattic.org web site and its principals shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to have been caused, directly or indirectly, by the information provided on the governmentattic.org web site or in this file. The public records published on the site were obtained from government agencies using proper legal channels. Each document is identified as to the source. Any concerns about the contents of the site should be directed to the agency originating the document in question. GovernmentAttic.org is not responsible for the contents of documents published on the website.