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We actually know very little about police brutality
Despite having militarized police departments across the country, the federal government does not collect comprehensive data that encompasses all kinds police violence.
By Abdallah Fayyad Globe Staff,Updated May 13, 2021, 10:14 a.m.
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On Nov. 16, a woman is silhouetted as she takes in the faces in the photographs that make up the Say Their Names memorial on Boston Common. According to its website, The Say Their Names Memorial is a nationwide initiative to honor Black lives lost to racial injustice, police brutality, and racism. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff
When it comes to the problem of police brutality, Americans know that Black and brown people are disproportionately harmed. They know that police officers routinely abuse their power, and they know, tragically, that police kill nearly 1,000 Americans each year.
Stanford Prof s Book Explores U.S. Violence And The Law By
Sameer Rao | April 18, 2021, 8:02 PM EDT
In A Pattern of Violence, David Alan Sklansky illuminates how the U.S. legal system s overdependence on faulty understandings of violent crime has fueled some of today s most pressing criminal and social justice issues.
The most important question of the virtual panel that Stanford Law School recently held to discuss professor David Alan Sklansky s latest book, A Pattern of Violence: How the Law Classifies Crimes and What It Means for Justice, arrived about 40 minutes into the session. How are you defining violence there, David? his colleague and panel moderator Dr. Rabia Belt asked.