BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20130310T100000 RDATE:20130310T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20131103T090000 RDATE:20131103T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130502T163000 LOCATION:JRHH 202 GEO:45.451619;-122.669391 SUMMARY:SENIOR THESIS PRESENTATION: Red Batons: Explaining Variation in P olice Use of Force at Public Protests in the United States by Kris Lyon ( Lewis & Clark College) DESCRIPTION:A recent report by the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU Schoo l of Law documents the disproportionate use of force at Occupy demonstr ations by the NYPD. Similar stories have been published in newspapers ac ross the nation since the 1960s. Scholars have sought to explain the cau ses of police repression at protests\, but few have examined the use of force at events with peaceful participants. Moreover\, a possible explan atory variable is missing from the literature: the political ideology of the protest message. This study\, relying on newspaper accounts and lar ge-N analyses\, finds that police violence at peaceful protests is extre mely rare. Yet\, liberal protests are twice as likely to receive force f rom police and three times as likely to receive police violence than con servative events. The predictive value of this theory holds between 1960 and 1980\, but becomes less powerful after 1980. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A recent report by the Global Justice Clinic at the NYU School of
Law documents the disproportionate use of force at Occupy
demo
nstrations by the NYPD. Similar stories have been published in
new
spapers across the nation since the 1960s. Scholars have sought
to
explain the causes of police repression at protests\, but few have
examined the use of force at events with peaceful participants.
Moreover\, a possible explanatory variable is missing from the
lit
erature: the political ideology of the protest message. This study\,
relying on newspaper accounts and large-N analyses\, finds that police
violence at peaceful protests is extremely rare. Yet\, liberal pr
otests are
twice as likely to receive force from police and three
times as likely to
receive police violence than conservative event
s. The predictive value
of this theory holds between 1960 and 1980
\, but becomes less
powerful after 1980.