Professor Kenneth T. Andrews, Washington University
Department of Sociology (42-43 Park End Street) or MS Teams
Please join either in person or online. For in-person attendees, the talk will be preceded by a light lunch at 12.15pm.
Please email comms@sociology.ox.ac.uk with any questions.
Abstract
More than 1,100 people are killed by police in the United States every year. That number has remained essentially unchanged and, in recent years, has risen. The largest racial justice protests in American history, hundreds of new use-of-force policies, and millions of dollars spent on body cameras and de-escalation training have not reduced it. Police killed more people in every year after 2020 than in any year before it.
In this talk based on his study with Neal Caren, Robyn Moore, and Rashawn Ray, Andrews will examine how protest drove reforms and why those reforms had no measurable impact on police violence in large U.S. cities.
