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Illustration of police and multiracial, multiethnic silhouettes.
February 24, 2023

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.

Illustration of criminal justice: gavel, handcuffs, scale
February 17, 2023

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.

A makeshift memorial placed during protests over the shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in 2014. Photo by Jamelle Bouie via Wikimedia Commons.
February 10, 2023

St. Louis-based writer, journalist, and poet Jacqui Germain will read from and discuss her debut collection of poetry, “Bittering the Wound,” a first-person retelling of the uprising in the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown by a police officer.

Generic criminal justice art.
February 3, 2023

A presentation by Brad Elliott Stone of Loyola Marymount University on Tuesday, Feb. 7, will kick off the 2023 spring semester programs for CSUSB’s Conversations on Race and Policing. The free programs are shared on Zoom.

A graphic illustrating surveillance.
November 29, 2022

“Policing’s Small Toolbox: Race and the Rise of Surveillance Policing,” presented by Matthew Guariglia, will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

 Ron Wilkins
November 14, 2022

“Struggling Against Police Terror: The Community Alert Patrol and Its Initiation of Strategies to Police the Police” will take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.

Science image
November 7, 2022

M. Chris Fabricant, author of “Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System,” will discuss his book at the next Conversations on Race and Policing, set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, on Zoom.

Police officers at the U.S. Capitol at the end of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. Photo: Tyler Merbler/Flickr/WikiMedia Commons
October 31, 2022

Michael German, a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Program, and Arie Perliger, professor and director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, will engage in a conversation with Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism. The program is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, on Zoom.

Police car light bar
October 21, 2022

David Pimentel, a professor of law at the University of Idaho’s College of Law, will present “Civil Forfeiture: How Is This Still a Thing?” at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26. The program, free and open to the public, will take place on Zoom.