Studying the Link Between Race and Police Killings Since the Ferguson, Missouri protests of 2014, the issue of how race and police violence interact has consistently been a front-page news item in the United States. Recent weeks have seen the criminal conviction of three Minneapolis police officers who failed to stop the murder of George Floyd in May Robert VerBruggen 8 Apr 2022 · 8 min read
Expelled from a Progressive Think Tank—for the Crime of Denouncing Antifa Violence On February 2nd, I wrote an opinion piece entitled “Beware the Anti-Fascists, for they have become what they oppose,” on behalf of the UK-based Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR)—a research centre for which I served, until recently, as a policy and practitioner fellow. That article began Craig McCann 22 Feb 2022 · 7 min read
Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache: Quebec’s Too-Perfect Police Officer Detective stories are so popular in our culture that those of us lacking experience of the real life variety sometimes have difficulty telling fact and fiction apart John Allore 4 Oct 2021 · 9 min read
Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help. Andrew Sansone 12 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
The Hysterical Campus When speakers need police escort on and off college campuses, an alarm bell should be going off that something has gone seriously awry. Heather Mac Donald 19 Sep 2018 · 11 min read
Policing Takes a Toll on Officers Too Police organizations had better start to pay more attention to the psychological health of these men and women who serve. John Violanti 11 Jul 2016 · 5 min read