by LMR | Jul 22, 2021 | Invest, Policing
Blayne Chegg-Swan Junior, CUA Following the death of George Floyd in May of last year, our country was embroiled in yet another national conversation about race and policing. This conversation has never really ended, and has now been broadened to include bizarre...
by LMR | Jul 22, 2021 | Divest, Policing
Rafael Wexler-Rivera Sophomore, GWU According to the 2020 Police Violence Report, 1,126 people were murdered by law enforcement personnel in 2020. Only 16 victims had their perpetrators face charges and 620 murders were the result of police officers responding to...
by LMR | Jul 22, 2021 | Abolish, Policing
By Asha Anthony Sophomore, Howard Slogans like “defund the police” have been ubiquitous since the death of George Floyd, and the subsequent interest in the Black Lives Matter movement. With police brutality being so prominent in minority communities across the...
