Brooklyn College Department of Sociology

02/27/2025

Lawrence Johnson on mentorship, community, and the role of BFS.

05/09/2024

My latest for the Nation on Campus Policing.

While some of the worst behavior has come from local and state police, university police have shown themselves to be just as capable of brutality.

03/01/2024

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Policing and Social Justice Project

01/09/2024

My latest for Truthout on the expansion of border enforcement to local police in Texas.

The GOP pushed Texas’s horrific new bills into law, but both parties have stoked expansion of immigration policing.

10/09/2023

Prof. Vitale meets w Colombian Minister of Justice in Cali, Colombia to discuss policing and drug policy and presents him with a copy of our report on gang suppression policing.

03/23/2022

Alex Vitale quipped that each sale of his book will now come with a "vial of Ted Cruz tears" as it topped Amazon's Government Social Policy section.

01/12/2022

In this installment of BPR’s criminal justice reform series, we meet Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing and professor of sociology at Brooklyn College. In addition to teaching, Vitale is a leader of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College. He has written for numerous...