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News Roundup

Alabama Dean of Students Resigns After Far-Right Organization Criticizes Tweets

Dr. Jamie Riley, assistant vice president and dean of students at the University of Alabama, resigned last week after his tweets condemning systematic racism and police were criticized by far-right website Breitbart News. Riley’s tweets from over two years ago were featured in Breitbart’s article which discussed Black academic’s observations about racism in the United […]

September 9, 2019

News Roundup

Dallas City Council Votes to Rid College Requirements in Hopes of Increasing Police Staff

The Dallas City Council has recently unanimously voted to no longer require 45 hours of college credit for applicants already certified with the Texas Commission of Law Enforcement in an effort to help fill a short-staffed police department. Applicants will still have to attend and complete the Dallas police academy, but the requirement change will remove multiple […]

February 14, 2019

Women

Michigan State University Police Department Appoints First Female Chief

Deputy Chief Kelly Roudebush, a 24-year veteran of the Michigan State University Police Department will make history and become the first woman to be the chief of the department, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Roudebush has previously served in the department as a field training officer, canine handler, threat assessment team commander, and uniform division captain, […]

November 28, 2018

News Roundup

UHD Students Support Houston Police as Translators

In the fourth-largest city in the United States, students at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) are helping Houston Police Department officers diminish language barriers they encounter on duty. The UHD students, criminal justice majors in the College of Public Service, are serving as members of Communicators on Patrol, an initiative launched by the HPD. Citizens […]

August 2, 2018

Native Americans

Calling the Police on People of Color

Seemingly everywhere from department stores to college dorms, each week brings a new story of a White person who targets a non-White person for racial profiling and summons police because the complainant simply feels uncomfortable.

May 14, 2018

Students

Police Remove Students from Occupied Paris University Site

PARIS — French police removed students from a Paris university building Friday that had been occupied for a month to protest admission changes that also are causing turmoil at other campuses. Paris police said the clearing of the Tolbiac Center, a 22-story tower in southern Paris affiliated with Paris 1 University, went “without incident.” Interior […]

April 23, 2018

Opinion

Lessons From Starbucks’ Imperfect Response to Systemic Racism

During our recent time at the American Educational Research Association Conference in New York City, we learned about the now-infamous Starbucks incident and our first reaction was, “Here we go again…”

April 22, 2018

Home

Expert: Minority Rights in Jeopardy Absent Consent Decrees for Police

Amid concerns that the U.S. Department of Justice won’t pursue consent decrees to hold police departments accountable for use of excessive or deadly force, a law professor who negotiated consent decrees under President Obama said the rights of minorities are at stake.

March 9, 2017

African-American

Professor Creates App to Take Fear Out of Police Traffic Stops

Dr. Juan Gilbert and his team at the University of Florida have developed the Traffic Stop app, which aims to allow both police officer and driver to stay in their vehicles for routine traffic stops, injecting a level of safety for both parties.

March 2, 2017

African-American

Hands Up, Hands Down! It Doesn’t Matter

I was talking to one of my childhood friends today about the shooting of an unarmed African-American male in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His remark about the shootings of Black men by police officers made me realize one thing. These shootings will not stop. There may be a temporary respite from time to time but the shooting […]

September 21, 2016

African-American

Black Scholars Take Issue with Obama on Police Encounters

President Obama suggested that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate in the 2016 presidential race because she knows “the worry Black parents feel when their son leaves the house isn’t so different than what a brave cop’s family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work.”

July 28, 2016

African-American

First African-American Police Chief Appointed in Ferguson, Mo.

The city of Ferguson, Missouri, swore in Delrish Moss as its first African-American police chief on Monday. A longtime veteran of the Miami Police Department, Moss was selected over 53 other applicants after a three-month search, the city said. He was officially sworn in at a ceremony on Monday afternoon. He is tasked with helping […]

May 9, 2016