profiling
Streetsblog LA
Demonstrations of Solidarity are Not Enough to Make Public Space Safe for Everyone
Listening to reports of the murder of yet another Sikh in the wake of 9/11, my mother looked up at the portrait of my father and sighed, "It's a good thing he's not here to see this."
July 17, 2013
A Case for the Incorporation of Questions of Access Into Planning for Complete Streets
"David!" I yelled, gesturing at City Planning's David Somers to come over and listen to what the residents playing cards in their yard were saying about the need for a stoplight at the intersection outside their front gate.
June 19, 2013
A Tale of Two Communities, Part II: LAPD Finds it Stirred Up Hornets’ Nest by Profiling USC Students of Color
"We do not believe at this point that there is any indication that this [incident] was race-based,” Capt. II Paul Snell of the LAPD Southwest Division told 1000 attendees at a forum last Tuesday night to address the mistreatment of black students by the LAPD when shutting down their party on May 4th.
May 13, 2013
A Tale of Two Communities: New Security Measures at USC Intensify Profiling of Lower-Income Youth of Color
"What you got on you?" the 15 year-old girl says the cops pulled up alongside her asked as she walked along Vermont one night.
April 30, 2013
How Far is Too Far?: Fortress USC and the Struggle to Keep Students Safe
WHEN I BEGAN MY GRAD PROGRAM at USC in 2001, I lived north of campus a few blocks on Hoover Street. As my daylight hours were generally occupied with classes and teaching responsibilities, I tended to get my long-distance runs in well after dark. Instead of being able to clear my head as I did figure-eights around campus and Exposition Park, however, I was often stopped by police who wanted to know what the hell I thought I was doing.
January 15, 2013
