Police & Policing

Videos

• NBC News: A Different Kind of Force: Policing Mental Illness

  • • A two part video series following the San Antonio PD's Crisis Intervention Team (note: my students LOVE this)

• Five Thirty Eight: How The NYPD Abused Citizens In The Name Of Data, And How One Cop Exposed It

  • • A short documentary about Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, a New York Police Department officer, who blew the whistle on the NYPD’s abuse and misuse of CompStat

• Frontline: Policing the Police

  • • Inside efforts to reform the Newark Police Department

• How To Build Better Cops

• • "Chris Hayes takes viewers inside a virtual reality simulator designed to help police make better split-second decisions in life-or-death situations and then talks to three former NYPD officers about the challenges of training police officers to be ready for the worst -- but not to expect it."

• Ted Talk: Phillip Atiba Goff - How we can make racism a solvable problem and improve policing

• • Officer Patrick Skinner On Police Warrior Mindset: We’re Fighting This As A War, Yet We Live Here

• Last Week Tonight: Police Accountability

• Is Defunding the Police Possible? A Discussion with Josie Duffy Rice & Derecka Purnell

Podcasts

• WITH Pod: Policing and Democracy with Brandon del Pozo

Books

• • They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowery

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

  • Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces by Radley Balko

  • The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

Web Articles

• Policing Mayberry: Misconceptions about 'rural' cops

• A Big Test of Police Body Cameras Defies Expectations

• Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?

• The Problem with Implicit Bias Training

• New Data Shows Police Use More Force Against Black Citizens Even Though Whites Resist More