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Despite calls for police reform legislation after the tragic death of George Floyd in May 2020, negotiations over the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act collapsed in the last Congress. Now, Tyre Nichols, a young Black man, has become the most recent victim of excessive police violence, this time in Memphis, Tennessee. Host Carol Castiel talks with law enforcement experts Chuck Wexler, Executive Director, Police Executive Research Forum and Ganesha M. Martin, former director of the Baltimore Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, about the steps needed, including federal legislation, to reform policing in America.
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Published 08/18/23
Given the legacy of slavery and discrimination in the United States, race-conscious admissions have shaped US higher education since the civil rights movement of the 1960s. However, in one of the final rulings of its current term, the conservative majority on the US Supreme Court struck down the...
Published 08/11/23