4 Police Violence/Use of Force 4 Police Violence/Use of Force
4.1. The Systems That Protect the Police (podcast, 23 minutes)
4.2. Campaign Zero: Police Violence
4.3. The Blue Wall: How Police Unions Fight Reform
(Article or audio version, 47 minutes) The Blue Wall
4.4. One Roadblock to Police Reform: Veteran Officers Who Train Recruits
(Including Derek Chauvin at the time he killed George Floyd)
4.5. On Our Watch : NPR (podcast, 46 minutes)
Perceived Threat
Listen to the account of a police-citizen interaction in Stockton, CA, and note the ways in which possible (though not necessarily plausible) explanations from a plainclothes police officer about why a 16-year-old boy in a "high crime area" posed a threat to him as he was exiting a convenience store. Consider whether reasonable suspicion in this case provides any meaningful limit on police-citizen interactions. TW: this incident involves violence.
4.6. How a Deadly Police Force Ruled a City | The New Yorker
A story about Vallejo, CA.