When police brutality becomes front-page news, it triggers a sudden, intense interaction between the media, the public, and the police. Lawrence examines more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force incidents covered by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times from 1985 to…
Lawrence extensively analyzes more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force covered by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. The incidents include but are not limited to those defined as "police brutality". Lawrence reveals the structural and cultural …
Lawrence extensively analyzes more than 500 incidents of police use-of-force covered by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. The incidents include but are not limited to those defined as "police brutality". Lawrence reveals the structural and cultural …
"In Chicago a.k.a 'Chiraq, ' the first ten days of 2016 yielded 120 people shot. Baltimore's 2015 ended as its bloodiest and deadliest year -- on a per-capita basis. In 2014, Detroit's police chief called upon law-abiding citizens to take arms against its burgeoning, violent, cr…
"A veteran sportswriter interviews high school athletes, college athletes, pro athletes and others involved in the nationwide movement to "take a knee" in response to police brutality"
"A veteran sportswriter interviews high school athletes, college athletes, pro athletes and others involved in the nationwide movement to "take a knee" in response to police brutality"-- "In 2016, amid an epidemic of police shootings of African Americans, the celebrated NFL qua…
"Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. What started as a simple case soon turned into a diplomatic crisis between two bygone empires, as the investigation provoked …
The Big Picture -- Episode One: The Opium Deal -- Episode Two: The Robbery -- Episode Three: Reporting the Robbery -- Episode Four: Panayot and Lefter's Arrest -- Episode Five: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Ottoman Version) -- Episode Six: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Bri…
"Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. What started as a simple case soon turned into a diplomatic crisis between two bygone empires, as the investigation provoked …
"Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. What started as a simple case soon turned into a diplomatic crisis between two bygone empires, as the investigation provoked …
"A medida que el mundo se vuelve más desigual, la gente se vuelve más "desechable". Los gobiernos excluyen sistemáticamente de la sociedad a sectores de su población mediante la brutalidad policial. Pero no siempre sale según lo planeado. William I. Robinson expone la dinámica d…
"As the world becomes more unequal, people become more "disposable". Governments systematically exclude sections of their populations from society through police brutality. But it doesn't always go to plan. William I. Robinson exposes the dynamics of this turbulent system, argui…
Thsi title is an international exploration of police use of force, firearms, and non-lethal weapons around the world. The book comprises three sections: the first focuses on the use of force generally, the second explores firearms and deadly force, and the final section cosiders…
