A Complicated Relationship: How California’s Community Colleges Educate Future Police and Why Our Curriculum Needs to Change
Can academia and law enforcement occupy the same spaces? And if so, what’s the best way to proceed?
Keenan Norris is an assistant professor of American literature and creative writing at San Jose State University. His just-published novel, The Confession of Copeland Cane, explores issues of police brutality, over-sentencing, the surveillance state, and environmental injustice.
Can academia and law enforcement occupy the same spaces? And if so, what’s the best way to proceed?
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Dr. Ben Carson just ain’t the phenomenon he was a few weeks ago.