SOCIAL WELFARE HISTORY GROUP Bibliography of Scholarship in Social Welfare History Number 101 Version 3, April 2021 Social Work Responses to Policing in the United States Stephen Monroe Tomczak, PhD, LMSW From the Editors President, SWHG Bibliography Editor Associate Professor and Assistant Chair For many years nearly US news cycles too regularly reported the death of a Department of Social Work person of color at the hands of police officers, including Jacob Blake, Sandra Southern Connecticut State University Bland, Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Stephon Clark, George Floyd, Korryn
[email protected] Gaines, Eric Garner, Charleena Lyles, Trayvon Martin, Daniel Prude, Breonna Jessica Toft, PhD, MSW, LISW Taylor, and Daunte Wright. Yet only a few of the killings reach the national Vice President, SWHG media. Most others remain untold—lost to history. Lead Bibliography Editor Assistant Professor School of Social Work In the summer of 2020, the gruesome video footage of George Floyd’s death and University of Minnesota the killing of Daniel Prude, sparked protests nationally and internationally. Led
[email protected] by the Black Lives Matter movement, these multi-racial and intergenerational Justin S. Harty, MSW, LCSW uprisings lasted for months and demanded both the end of police killings of Secretary, SWHG people of color and the start of police accountability. Some protesters insisted on Lead Bibliography Editor abolishing the police and defunding police departments. Others called for police Doctoral Candidate reforms such as re-allocating funds from the police to the social services, Crown Family School of Social Work University of Chicago partnering with social work and other helping professions and/or anti-racist
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