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Apr 27
Reforming Police for Racial Equality: Lessons from the Civil Rights Era 12:30 p.m.

Featuring Andrew McCall, Columbia University. This talk focuses on police community relations programs, established during the mid-20th century as a solution to police brutality....
Reforming Police for Racial Equality: Lessons from the Civil Rights Era
April 27
12:30–1:45 p.m.
William W. Knight Law Center 110

Featuring Andrew McCall, Columbia University. This talk focuses on police community relations programs, established during the mid-20th century as a solution to police brutality. McCall juxtaposes data on the establishment of these programs with arrest and reported crime data to explore how well the programs worked, if they made communities safer, and if they changed the extent to which departments worked to preserve racial hierarchies.

McCall is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His research examines the causes of racial inequality in policing, with a particular focus on reforms during the mid-20th century, professional associations, and department design.  His research has been funded by the Center for Empirical Legal Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the National Science Foundation. 

This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics. It is part of the Wayne Morse Center's Public Affairs Speaker Series. 

Videos of recent events

Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America, featuring Margot Canaday

Gig Economy: Predatory Platforms, Precarious Work

Book Launch and Conversation with Sarita Gupta and Erica Smiley

A Path Forward for Working Oregonians?

View more videos on our YouTube channel

News

Check out this piece in the Washington Post coauthored by Dan Tichenor, director of the Wayne Morse Program for Democratic Governance and Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science; and Alison Gash, UO political science professor. 
We are proud of the Wayne Morse Center alumni who ran for public office this year. Thanks to each of them for taking on the challenges of running and for shaping the public discourse on the campaign trail.
The UO Labor Education and Research Center recently released a report titled "A Labor Crises within the Childcare Crisis: The Growing Need for 'Non-Traditional Hours' Met by Underpaid In-Home Providers," which was funded by a Wayne Morse Center Project Grant. 

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