Brooklyn College Department of Sociology

Lifting as We Climb - Brooklyn College Lawrence Johnson on mentorship, community, and the role of BFS.

My latest for the Nation on Campus Policing.

Campus Police Are Among the Armed Heavies Cracking Down on Students 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.

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

An Open Border Could Benefit Us All. Instead, Both Parties Want to Build a Wall. The GOP pushed Texas’s horrific new bills into law, but both parties have stoked expansion of immigration policing.

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.

"The End of Policing" author thanks Ted Cruz for boosting sales of book 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.

Envisioning the End of Policing: An Interview with Alex Vitale - Brown Political Review 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...