by jpitney | Oct 17, 2021 | Crime, Police
The Future of Policing Claremont McKenna College, Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum Wed, October 20, 2021 The debate on policing has generated heated discussions and strong reactions nationwide. Questions like: Are cops detrimental to the welfare of racial minorities?...
by jpitney | Oct 3, 2021 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists
WJZ-TV in Baltimore offers a timeline of the Capital Gazette shooting: June 28, 2018: A gunman enters the Capital Gazette offices with a “long gun,” shoots through a glass door and fires at multiple employees. Five staffers at the The Capital are killed in the attack:...
by jpitney | Sep 29, 2021 | Crime, Journalism
The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation Leadership Statement On The Sentence In The Capital Gazette Trial: Today’s sentence in the trial of the Capital Gazette shooter is a testament to our nation’s commitment to protect journalists and serves as a reminder that...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2021 | Crime
City Journal interviews Claremont McKenna College professor Michael Fortner. An excerpt: Your work suggests that elites, on both left and right, have fundamentally misread black views on crime and policing, and our political debates reflect that misreading. In your...
by jpitney | Aug 18, 2021 | Crime, Public Opinion
Joseph M. Bessette and J. Andrew Sinclair at RealClearPolicy look at detailed public opinion data about the death penalty. To provide a rough summary of our findings: We can divide the electorate into three groups of different sizes. About a fifth of American voters...
by jpitney | Aug 8, 2021 | Crime, Journalism
At the Committee to Protect Journalists, Katherine Jacobsen interview Rick Hutzell ,former editor of the Capital Gazette, the site of the worst newsroom shooting in U.S. history, With the Capital Gazette’s Annapolis office permanently closed for financial reasons due...
