As we continue our discussions of police violence, one policy objective we should be focused on is how to critically assess and evaluate the power held by police unions. One week after the murder of George Floyd, Bob Kroll, the President of the Minneapolis Police Union released a statement claiming that the four officers responsible…
Second photo: Gregory McMichael and the District Attorney of Glynn County, Jackie Johnson. Jackie Johnson was the first DA to hear about the case and choose not to pursue charges against the McMichaels. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has released “new” footage to the public in the Ahmaud Arbery case. While it is considered new to us in the public,…
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. The killing of an unarmed black man in Georgia has sparked outrage across the country as it has now been…
Intro This week, the Georgia Department of Public Safety terminated the employment of an entire class of Georgia State Patrol troopers. The news broke and has the public asking questions and feeling uneasy. It also has The Georgia Department of Public Safety scrambling to deal with the abrupt loss of a number of employees who…