The free program, presented on Zoom, is open to the public and will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6. Conversations on Race and Policing, which began after the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and its aftermath, enters its fourth year.
“Paid for by Crime: Civil Asset Forfeiture and the War on Drugs,” with Kenneth Alyass, a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University, will be presented at 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, on Zoom.
“From Rhetoric to Action: Police Reform in a ‘Post’ Racialized America,” by Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former ranking law enforcement official in Memphis who is now an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University, will be presented at 1 p.m. on Zoom.
“In Conversation with Dr. Craig Futterman,” the founder and director of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, will take place at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 18, on Zoom.
Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham, authors of “The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland,” will discuss their work at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, on Zoom.
“IE to Ph.D. & Policing The Inland” will be presented by Humberto Flores, a doctoral candidate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara. The program is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed on Zoom at 1 p.m. March 14.
Yale University professor Beverly Gage will discuss her biography on J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI from 1924 to until he died in 1972, at the next Conversations on Race and Policing.
Cerise Castle, who wrote an award-winning investigative project on deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, appear on the weekly program at 1 p.m. Feb. 28 on Zoom.
Alec Karakatsanis, a civil rights lawyer and social justice advocate, will discuss his work and his book, “Unusual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Justice System,” at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, which will be livestreamed on Zoom.