…they were riots or fail to prevent a violent development at a stage where it could have been avoided. Policing Protests–Lessons from the Occupy Movement, Ferguson & Beyond: A Guide…

…potential perils of depolicing.  Moskos brings a unique point of view to the public conversation about policing: in addition to being a Harvard-trained sociologist, he spent more than a year…

…they have the safety that they need?  Talk to me about the history of policing in this country. Some people argue that American policing grows out of slave patrols. And…

…the first task of policing is to be procedurally just. The first task of policing is to protect order, to respond to citizen requests for assistance, and to reduce crime….

Did a reduction in policing following the 2014 killing of Michael Brown, a Black man, by police in Ferguson, Missouri, and similar incidents in other cities drive an increase in…

…safety that comes from having cops, but they want much more respectful policing to address things like bias and over-aggressiveness. Not at all. I think the research around visible policing,…

…a massively important first step. You didn’t mention policing. If the goal is to combat a serious spike in violence right now, is there no role for hot spot policing…

…a small number of people who are having a really big effect. But we have to be very careful with hot-spot policing or predictive policing because one thing that we…

…safe. That’s the real story. You’ve expressed some skepticism about the deterrent effect of policing. You’ve also talked in other forums about the harms that over-policing can do. I’m wondering…

…don’t believe that policing will be the tool that gets us where we need to go. I don’t see policing as an institution being separate from corruption and brutality. I’ve…