Center for Policing Equity at UCLA
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Tracie Keesee
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Creating a Police Shooting Database We know about the shootings when they make headlines: White police officer shoots unarmed, black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. But what about the cop-related shootings that don’t make headlines? Turns out, there’s no single place to track police behavior - from shootings on down to routine traffic stops. But that’s about to change.
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Should we keep rebuilding in fire-prone Malibu? Private firefighters successfully defended Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s $50 million mansion from the Woolsey Fire. Insurance companies with a lot at stake have recently started hiring private wildfire defense teams to protect their clients’ properties.
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The New World Where do speech balloons come from? How does time move from panel to panel? This week we explore the techniques of comic-book storytelling through Chris Reynolds’s graphic series, newly anthologized as The New World. Join us as we travel deep into the artist’s world to find the source of these bizarrely mundane comics’ depth and beauty.