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NYU School of Law and its faculty, students, alumni, centers and programs are frequently featured in the media. The following lists recent news stories, interviews and op-eds.

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Fast Company
"We spent a fortune on police body cams. Why haven’t they fixed policing?"
06/17/2020
Fast Company
Expert: Barry Friedman
Bloomberg News
"Trump Signs Order on Police Force After Meeting Victims’ Families"
06/16/2020
Bloomberg
Expert: Barry Friedman
Wall Street Journal
"Amid Calls to ‘Defund,’ How to Rethink Policing"
06/13/2020
Wall Street Journal
Author: Barry Friedman
Vice
"These Cities Replaced Cops With Social Workers, Medics, and People Without Guns"
06/12/2020
Vice News
Expert: Barry Friedman
USA Today
"Supreme Court's deference to police for 'reasonable' conduct faces scrutiny in wake of brutality cases"
06/11/2020
USA Today
Expert: Barry Friedman
NPR
"What Police Are For: A Look Into Role Of The Police In Modern Society"
06/10/2020
NPR
Expert: Barry Friedman
Washington Post
"Can the federal government fix our policing problem?"
06/08/2020
Washington Post
Expert: Barry Friedman
Fast Company
"You’re under arrest—and live on camera"
03/03/2020
Fast Company
Expert: Barry Friedman
Washington Post
"Axon rolls out the next level of police technology: Live-streaming body cameras"
02/19/2020
Washington Post
Expert: Barry Friedman
Slate
"The Courts Can Move Quickly. They’re Slow-Walking Trump Cases on Purpose."
01/10/2020
Slate
Co-author: Barry Friedman
New York Times
"The Truth About New York’s Rising Murder Numbers"
01/07/2020
New York Times
Expert: Barry Friedman
CNBC News
"An Amazon Alexa executive’s move to Taser-maker Axon is the future of law-enforcement technology"
12/12/2019
CNBC
Expert: Barry Friedman
Vox
"How to avoid a dystopian future of facial recognition in law enforcement"
12/10/2019
Vox
Expert: Barry Friedman
Vox
"Barry Friedman: Is technology making police better — or..."
11/25/2019
Vox: Recode Decode (audio)
Expert: Barry Friedman
New York Times
"Here’s a Way Forward on Facial Recognition"
10/31/2019
New York Times
Co-author: Barry Friedman
"‘Police must first do no harm’: How one of the nation’s roughest cities is reshaping use-of-force tactics"
08/21/2019
Washington Post
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Who Should the Police Answer To?"
07/25/2019
The Atlantic
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Behind The Body Camera: The Ethics, Adoption And Impact Of Recording Police Interactions"
07/08/2019
Connecticut Public Radio
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"A maker of police body cameras won’t use facial recognition yet, for two reasons: Bias and inaccuracy"
06/28/2019
Washington Post
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Should police body cameras have facial recognition tech? Axon, the largest U.S. maker of devices, says no"
06/27/2019
NBC News
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"A Major Police Body Cam Company Just Banned Facial Recognition"
06/27/2019
New York Times
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Major Police Body Camera Manufacturer Rejects Facial Recognition Software"
06/27/2019
NPR
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Court Packing Won't Happen, But Calling Out the Court as Partisan Can Work Just as Well"
06/18/2019
Pacific Standard
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Democrats look at packing the Supreme Court to pack the vote"
05/31/2019
CNN
Expert: Barry Friedman
"San Francisco Bans Facial Recognition in a Move to Democratize Surveillance Technology"
05/16/2019
WNYC: The Takeaway (audio)
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Race and Policing"
04/02/2019
American Law Institute (audio)
Experts: Barry Friedman and Sherrilyn Ifill '87
"Who Can Stop The Supreme Court"
10/15/2018
FiveThirtyEight
Expert: Barry Friedman
"The Coming Storm Over the Supreme Court"
10/08/2018
New York Times
Author: Barry Friedman
"Bitter partisan battle wounded Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court he's joined"
10/07/2018
Washington Post
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Undercover cops break Facebook rules to track protesters, ensnare criminals"
10/05/2018
NBC News
Experts: Barry Friedman; Rachel Levinson-Waldman, Brennan Center for Justice
"When the Supreme Court Lurches Right"
08/22/2018
New York Times Magazine
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Microsoft Calls for AI Face Recognition Software Regulation"
07/13/2018
Bloomberg
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Who Will Police Police Drones"
07/11/2018
Gizmodo
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Conservatives in Charge, the Supreme Court Moved Right"
06/28/2018
New York Times
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Did Anthony Kennedy Just Destroy His Own Legacy?"
06/27/2018
Politico
Experts: Barry Friedman and Richard Pildes
"The Worrisome Future of Policing Technology"
06/22/2018
New York Times
Author: Barry Friedman
"'Please Give Us Justice': New California Law Aims to Hold Police Accountable"
05/02/2018
The Nation.
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Should Police Body Cameras Get Facial Recognition Tech?"
04/26/2018
PC Magazine
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Supreme Court Expands Immunity for Police Officers"
04/04/2018
WNYC Studios (podcast)
Expert: Barry Friedman
"What to Do About the Police?"
03/29/2018
The Nation.
Featured: Barry Friedman
"Cops, Cellphones and Privacy at the Supreme Court"
11/26/2017
New York Times
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Police turn body cams into tools for public relations, not accountability"
10/23/2017
Columbia Journalism Review
Expert: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Police turn body cams into tools for public relations, not accountability"
10/23/2017
Columbia Journalism Review
"The new surveillance state"
10/02/2017
Canadian Lawyer
Expert: Barry Friedman
"The Heritage Foundation’s Terrible Timing"
09/26/2017
Slate
Author: Barry Friedman
"How Will We Police the Police?"
07/27/2017
Fast Company
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Amazon Echo, Google Home devices raise privacy rights questions"
05/29/2017
The Washington Times
Expert: Barry Friedman
"Should The Police Control Their Own Body Camera Footage?"
05/25/2017
NPR
Expert: Barry Friedman
"L.A. Police Commissions seeks input on LAPD Video Policy"
05/03/2017
The Los Angeles Sentinel
Featured: Barry Friedman, Policing Project
"Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program"
04/16/2017
The New York Times
Expert: Barry Friedman