AS MORE AND MORE POLICE DEPARTMENTS adopt policies to have officers wear body cameras to record interactions with the public, the research evidence continues to build on the effects of the technology — and it’s not yielding the sort of findings many had expected. The latest report, a review of 70 studies conducted by researchers […]
Police Relations
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Power of the badge
The tensions between police and those they are charged with protecting continue to rise and it seems every encounter between those in blue uniforms and those in black skin has the potential to be a tinderbox. More and more of it is caught on camera and the latest brush with the law in Cambridge is sure to […]
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Drawing ire over police shootings
There is little disagreement that race relations between African-Americans and police around the country are a tinderbox right now, as combustible as the drought-dried areas of the state ready to go aflame with the slightest spark. In Milwaukee, black residents rioted for two days after a police officer there shot and killed a black man. […]