As police chief of gritty Richmond, California, Chris Magnus embraced Black Lives Matter, all but eliminated fatal shootings by police, and cut the homicide rate in half.
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Posted inPolitical Animal
How the Police Help Criminals
If a community doesn’t feel safe around police, they won’t call them for help.
Posted inEducation, K-12, Politics
“They Only Kill Us Because of our Skin Color and Our Race.”
What kids worried about during a year of police violence.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal
Driving While Black Is Totally Different
Police don’t have the right to act as judge, jury, and executioner.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Philando Castile and the Human Costs of a Widespread Police Practice
This widespread police practice is literally killing people.
Posted inPolitics
Using Bayesian Analysis of Police Killings
A closer look at Roland Fryer’s “startling” racial disparity study.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
Let Students Lead the Way in Protests Over Police Brutality
Lessons from LSU in the face of conflict.
Posted inPolitical Animal
What Are We Asking Cops to Do?
True police reform can’t happen until we answer that question.
