Jack McDevitt – Khalida Zohal Sarwari

Do school police keep students safe, or reinforce the school-to-prison pipeline?

Posted onDecember 16, 2020May 19, 2021

By Khalida Sarwari The past 30 years have seen a drive to install school resource officers—essentially, police officers—in public schools. But too little forethought or …

Here’s how policing in the US could be reformed

Posted onJune 2, 2020May 3, 2021Leave a comment

By Khalida Sarwari The cycle has become common and familiar. An unarmed Black man or woman is shot or choked to death. The police officers involved in their deaths …

Here’s one way to counter the spread on social media of hate crimes like the New Zealand mosque shooting

Posted onMarch 15, 2019May 4, 2021Leave a comment

By Khalida Sarwari Short of regulating extremist content on their platforms, tech giants such as Facebook and YouTube should offer countering or alternative viewpoints, says Jack …

Can data help make racial profiling by police a thing of the past?

Posted onJanuary 7, 2019May 4, 2021Leave a comment

By Khalida Sarwari When Jack McDevitt was asked to lead a study to determine whether police officers in Kansas engage in racial profiling, he didn’t have to think …