This textbook addresses existing gaps in police research, education, and training, and provides guidance on how to respond to and address the vulnerability that arises in policing practice. It guides students through the conceptual and also the practical issues of managing vulnerability in policing with case studies and practitioners’ views from the
UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the US, Canada, France, and beyond to the Maldives, China, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It includes key concepts, views from the front-line, further reading and activities in each chapter.
Policing Practices and Vulnerable People is aimed at researchers and practitioners working with police. While focussed on democratic policing practices, this book includes case studies and practitioners’ views from a wide range of approaches, including those from the Global South. This book provides readers with a framework that can assist them in converting conceptual knowledge to critical, ethic
Print this article Vanita Gupta speaks during the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Policing Practices and Law Enforcement Accountability in Washington, DC, June 10, 2020.
(Michael Reynolds/Pool via Reuters) At her confirmation hearing tomorrow, Vanita Gupta should be asked about her abuse of the Vacancies Act while working for Obama.
On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a nomination hearing for Vanita Gupta, President Biden’s choice for associate attorney general. If confirmed, Gupta would become the third-highest-ranking official in the Department of Justice.
Much of the questioning at Gupta’s hearing is likely to focus on her policy priorities during her previous stint in government, when she led the DOJ’s civil-rights division from 2014–2017. But senators on the committee would do well to also ask Gupta about
Metro area mayors lay out their 2021 legislative priorities
To-do list covers economic recovery, housing, mental health, policing and property taxes.
The two dozen mayors in the Portland metropolitan area have laid out their to-do list for the 2021 Oregon Legislature.
Four of the seven priorities by the Metropolitan Mayors Consortium, which is led this year by Forest Grove Mayor Pete Truax, dovetail with those unveiled by the League of Oregon Cities. They are economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, housing and homelessness, mental health services to ease the burden on police who are often the first responders to people in crisis, and changes to Oregon s quarter-century-old system of property tax limits.