Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

April 27, 2021

Vox

Jenn M. Jackson

Political Science Department

Campbell Public Affairs Institute

Crime and Violence

Population Studies

Race & Ethnicity

Racial Inequality

Social Inequalities

State and Local

Vox

Jenn M. Jackson

Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing."