Published On Oct 28, 2021
Wed, October 20, 2021 Dinner Program
The debate on policing has generated heated discussions and strong reactions nationwide. Questions like: Are cops detrimental to the welfare of racial minorities? Should we defund them? Or perhaps abolish them? What about police reform? To discuss these and other related questions are Peter Moskos and Alex Vitale, two of the nation’s most prominent experts on policing. A defender of policing, Moskos is a professor at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of Cop in the Hood. A proponent of abolitionism, Vitale is a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College and author of The End of Policing.The debate will be moderated by Michael Fortner, an associate professor of government at CMC.