The Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, in partnership with CEDER in the UM School of Education, has released three series of curriculum guides for instructors…
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CSP Publishes “Deadly Force by Off-Duty Officers”
“Deadly Force by Off-Duty Officers: Investigating Homicides and Brutality by Detroit Police, 1994-2014,” is a multimedia report created by Corey Schneck of the Policing and Social…
DCC Publishes “Cops or Robbers? The Dangers of Invisible Policing”
Cops or Robbers? The Dangers of Invisible Policing This multimedia investigative report, created by Zev Miklethun for the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, examines the…
CSP Co-Sponsors Panel Discussion “Black Resistance in the STRESS Era”
“Black Resistance in the STRESS Era: Commemorating the Lives of Ricardo Buck and Craig Mitchell” (Sept. 18, 2021). On Sept. 17, 1971, Black teenagers Ricardo…
DCC Publishes Investigative Report of Police Violence against Black Women in Detroit
Silence, Power, and Injustice: Historical Patterns of Police Violence against Women in Detroit This multimedia investigative report, created by Lily Johnston for the Policing and…
Matt Lassiter Publishes Expose of Detroit’s STRESS Police Unit in Free Press Flashback
Matt Lassiter, “Demise of STRESS, Detroit’s Deadliest Police Squad, Began with Death of Teens,” Detroit Free Press, Sept, 5, 2021 Ricardo Buck and Craig Mitchell were…
David Helps Publishes “The Global Policeman Is Not Exempt from Justice” in Foreign Policy
David Helps, “The ‘Global Policeman’ Is Not Exempt From Justice: Confronting the Violence of U.S. Policing Requires an International Perspective,” in Foreign Policy (August 13, 2021) “Wherever…
David Helps Publishes “The Police: Gentrification’s Shock Troops” (Nov. 2020)
DCC researcher David Helps, a coordinator of the Detroit as a Carceral Space research initiative, has published “The Police: Gentrification’s Shock Troops” in the online…
“Policing and Protest 2020” — Panel Discussion Video Available
“Policing and Protest 2020,” recorded July 28, 2020, was sponsored by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Michigan and featured three…
Heather Thompson Interviewed in Vox on Historical Legacy of Protests against Police Violence
Read the Vox interview (June 2, 2020) with Heather Ann Thompson, DCC faculty researcher and Carceral State Project founder, on “How Today’s Protests Compare to…