Social Justice

Brief #11—Criminal Justice
By Erika Shannon
This past Sunday, August 23, police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake seven times in the back.

Brief #10—Criminal Justice
By Erika Shannon
Operation Legend has now been up and running since July 8, 2020

Brief #9—Criminal Justice
By Laura Plummer
Across the country Americans are demanding an end to police violence in their communities, with different activist groups calling for different solutions. Chief among these are reform, defund and abolish.

Brief #7—Criminal Justice
By Laura Plummer

Brief #7—Criminal Justice
By Erika Shannon
The Trump Administration has announced a plan to deploy federal agents to several American cities as a part of “Operation Legend” and the so-called “Protecting American Communities Task Force.”

Brief #6—Criminal Justice
By Marcie Jaffee
Recent weeks have seen growing unrest in Portland, OR in response to the deployment of federal officers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Brief #5—Policing in America
By Laura Plummer
Minneapolis is the epicenter of the nation’s ongoing debate on police reform.

Brief #4—Criminal Justice
By Marcie Jaffee
On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected arguments against using a single drug to perform legal executions, which cleared the path for federal executions to resume after a 17-year hiatus.

Brief #3—Criminal Justice
By Marcie Jaffee
Despite broad swaths of Americans protesting in the streets, attempts to pass a police overhaul bill stalled in Congress last week. Both the GOP and Democrats introduced police reform bills, but neither survived the partisan divide, making it unlikely that Congress will take any action toward police reform before the November elections.

Brief #1—Policing In America
By Laura Plummer
On June 12, amid worldwide protests against police killings of Black people, 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was shot in the back by an officer of the Atlanta Police Department (APD). His death has amplified the calls for police reform at the department.

Brief #1—Criminal Justice
By Ivan A Moore
Over a week after protests began in Minneapolis, demonstrations continue in dozens of cities. While these civil rights protests were intended to be peaceful, violence has erupted on a scale unheard of since the riots following Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s assasination.

Brief #25—Gun Control
By Ivan Moore
Amid coronavirus panic, a new and unexpected debate has arisen: Are gun stores essential businesses?