police

POLICE KILLING OF BLACKS: Do Black Lives Matter?

Todd Beer on May 26, 2020

Updated June 19, 2020, with data from 2015-2019 Data collected by the Washington Post on the … Read More

TEACHING EXCEL BASICS WITH 2016 POLICE LETHAL FORCE DATA: A resource for methods

Todd Beer on August 8, 2016

Teaching quantitative methods and data analysis can be tedious, but I have found that using sociological and “headline-relevant” data, such as … Read More

“BUT BLACKS COMMIT MORE CRIMES”: Scholars discuss conservative logic

Todd Beer on July 25, 2016

Since 2014 there has been renewed interest, concern, and protest regarding the police use of deadly force against … Read More

RACIAL BIAS IN LETHAL POLICE SHOOTINGS: The Need for Interdisciplinary Research

Abigail A. Sewell on July 22, 2016

GUEST POST by Abigail A. Sewell Recently, The New York Times published a write-up of a study documenting a … Read More

PATTERNS OF POLICE SHOOTINGS: One year after Ferguson

Todd Beer on August 9, 2015

It has been a year since white, male, then-police-officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed eighteen-year-old black male … Read More

RACE OF POLICE DEPARTMENTS: Should they be similar to the community?

Todd Beer on July 18, 2015

Since a police force is designed to protect and serve a community, should the race of the police departments align … Read More

RACISM AND THE POLICE: The Shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson

Todd Beer on August 18, 2014

*For a look at the patterns that have emerged in the police shootings of unarmed black citizens since the shooting … Read More