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The Reference Shelf: Policing in 2020

Table of Contents

Preface: Policing America




1 The Police Force




Understanding Police Brutality




The Long, Painful History of Police Brutality in the U.S.




What the Police Really Believe




George Floyd and the History of Police Brutality in America




10 Things We Know about Race and Policing in the U.S.




Why Statistics Don’t Capture the Full Extent of the Systemic Bias in Policing




2 Policing in Place




Community Policing and the Role of Police




Polling Finds a Divide in How Americans View Police and Protestors




The Negative Consequences of Entangling Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement




Has ICE Found a Way to Get around Sanctuary Policies?




Calls for Reform Bring Renewed Focus to Community Policing, but Does It Work?




3 Plague Policing




Policing in the Age of COVID-19




Policing during the Coronavirus Pandemic




Explainer: Why Police Will Be Crucial Players in the Battle against Coronavirus




Do We Really Need the COVID-19 Police?




U.S. Policing after Wave One of COVID-19




COVID-19 Curbs Community Policing at a Time of Diminishing Trust




4 Training Days




Police Education and Policy




Police Reformers Push for De-escalation Training, but the Jury Is Out on Its Effectiveness




Private Company Moves to Profit from New York’s Police Reforms




Police Reforms Stall around the Country, Despite New Wave of Activism




Could “Insight Policing” Have Saved Sandra Bland, Freddie Gray and Others?




5 Steps Toward Reform




Solving Problems for a Better Policing System




“Perfect Storm”: Defund the Police, COVID-19 Lead to Biggest Police Budget Cuts in Decade




Los Angeles Cuts LAPD Spending, Taking Police Staffing to Its Lowest Level in 12 Years




What Exactly Does It Mean to Defund the Police?




The Defunding Debate




6 Policing the Digital Citizen




Technology in Policing




The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud




Cops in Miami, NYC Arrest Protesters from Facial Recognition Matches




Police Are Using Facial Recognition for Minor Crimes Because They Can




Body Cameras Are Seen as Key to Police Reform: But Do They Increase Accountability?




Body Cameras May Not Be the Easy Answer Everyone Was Looking For




Amazon’s Doorbell Camera Ring Is Working with Police—and Controlling What They Say




How to Reform Police Monitoring of Social Media




Bibliography




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