Professor Barry Friedman
Professor Maria Ponomarenko
Mondays, 4:10 to 6:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LAW-LW.12606.001
2 credits
There is hardly a day goes by that policing is not on the front pages of the day’s media. And no wonder why: policing is a vital government function, but the powers we bestow upon police have the potential – if not exercised properly – to threaten the most basic values in our constitutional republic. This is true whether we are talking about street policing practices, including stop-and-frisk, racial profiling, and use of force, or technology-based policing like drones, predictive policing algorithms, facial recognition, or body cameras.
The Policing Colloquium invites legal and social science scholars, and practitioners, to campus to discuss their work on policing. This year the theme for the course is The Cutting Edge. We will take up some of the hottest issues in policing. Scholars will come to discuss their works in progress, while some cutting-edge practitioners will tell us what they are up to. Students will write “pre-action” papers and one longer paper on the issues the seminar deals with.
SPRING 2019 Schedule of Presenters
January 28, 2019
February 11, 2019
February 25, 2019
March 11, 2019
April 1, 2019
April 15, 2019
April 29, 2019