President's Forum Series:
Policing in America
Monday, Nov. 8 6pm
Harold Alfond Forum and Live Stream
Please join President James Herbert as he hosts the fourth event in his President’s Forum series POLICING IN AMERICA
With the proliferation of cell phone cameras and dashboard footage, media has been rife with re- ports of police appearing to use excessive force during routine interventions, especially in Black and poor communities. Following George Floyd’s murder, there has been increased focus on how policing is practiced in America, ranging from demands to defund police departments entirely, to more moderate calls for reform, to staunch defenders of the thin blue line.
With two special guest speakers: Neil L. Gross, Ph.D., the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, is a former police officer who studies law enforcement. Brendan McQuade, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine and the author of Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Surveillance, which earned a Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award. The discussion will be moderated by Anouar Majid, Ph.D., UNE’s vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities. The event is free and open to the public.
The event will be held on Monday, November 8, at 6 p.m. in the Harold Alfond Forum. The event will also be broadcast live on the UNE website, and the UNE Facebook page.
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