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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · 9d

Check out my new article in @inquest.bsky.social about the prosecution of Luigi Mangione.

Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 9d

"The charges against [Mangione] make clear that the criminal legal system’s response to murder has everything to do with who is murdered—and who does the murdering." Political scientist @ch4rlotte.bsky.social on the workings of racial capitalism.

Making an Example of Luigi Mangione - Charlotte Boucher - Inquest

The criminal legal system aims to send a message by massively overcharging him: it will defend racial capitalism above all else.

inquest.org

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Carceral State Project @carceralinquiry.bsky.social · Apr 15

Join us *this Friday* for a discussion by experts and advocates in the field of immigrant justice for a webinar examining the Trump administration’s developing immigration policies.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Dec 17

Chicago homicide is down 7% this year, almost 30% since 2021.

NYC down 8% this year, 15% since 2022.

LAPD down 20% this year, 30% since 2022.

A remarkable reversal of the Covid spike in city after city. Yet no Big Thought pieces on "what went right." Mostly just ... silence.

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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · Mar 22

To expand our understanding of police violence in America, Hilary Izatt and #ISRNextGeneration scholar @ch4rlotte.bsky.social study incidents of violence among white Americans, an understudied population. #MPSA2025 #PoliSky buff.ly/M5rPPjS

Policing White America: A Study of Police Violence in Utah
Session: The Politics of Law Enforcement
Sat, April 5, 5:28 pm CDT (6:28 ET)
Chicago | Hybrid Conference April 3-6, 2025
#MPSA2025 | Follow @umisrcps.bsky.social
Hilary Jan Izatt, Binghamton University
Charlotte Boucher, Ronald F. Inglehart Scholar, University of Michigan

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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · Mar 14

How do police officials respond to criminal-justice reform efforts by local prosecutors? @bromero15.bsky.social @maraceci.bsky.social and @ch4rlotte.bsky.social present results from a survey experiment of local law enforcement officials at #MPSA2025. buff.ly/cdW2nYb

Police Response to Progressive Prosecutors
Look at what you made me do: how police shape politics
Sat, April 5, 10:30 am CDT (11:30 ET)
Brandon J. Romero, Mara Ostfeld, and Charlotte Boucher
University of Michigan
Chicago | Hybrid Conference April 3-6, 2025
#MPSA2025 | Follow @umisrcps.bsky.social

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Total Lowlife Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Mar 11

Jesus what an absolutely useless party.

Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.

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Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · Mar 11

Ronald F. Inglehart scholar Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social presents at the hybrid #MPSA2025-- investigating how living in highly policed neighborhoods in the US & France affects residents' political behavior. #ISRNextGeneration #PoliSky #UMichResearch buff.ly/YerfZJo

Negotiated Citizenship: Managed Relationships with a Violent State
Session: The Great Escape: The Politics of Prisons and Jails
Sun, April 6, 8:40 am CDT (9:40 ET)
Chicago | Hybrid Conference April 3-6, 2025
Charlotte Boucher, Ronald F. Inglehart Scholar
University of Michigan

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Todd Feathers @toddfeathers.bsky.social · Feb 11

When Toledo police rolled out their Fusus system, allowing officers to tap into the live feeds of privately owned cameras, they promised to only use the power in emergency situations.

We obtained data that tells a very different story about when, and who, TPD watches.

gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...

‘Clearly Discrimination’: How a City Uses Fusus to Spy on Its Poorest Residents

Fusus’s technology allows police to tap into live feeds from public and privately owned surveillance cameras. In Toledo, Ohio, cops use the power to watch one particular type of location.

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james 🐎🔫 @buffalocia.bsky.social · Jan 27

Chinese researchers invent worlds best chatbot - American economy collapses

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · Jan 24

Criminologists and lawyers have been yelling this point for years now, that broad crackdowns like this make us overall less safe.

It’s another (important) datapoint for the (really important) point that “tough on crime” politicians are NOT INTERESTED IN SAFETY.

It’s abt SOCIAL CONTROL.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Jan 24

Striking argument from California AG Rob Bonta: If local law enforcement complied with Trump's demand that they carry out his immigration agenda, it would actually make CA residents *less* safe.

On the pod, Bonta spells this out:

newrepublic.com/article/1906...

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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · Jan 23

If you appreciate our work, please consider supporting independent journalism by the incarcerated.

Donate | Prison Journalism Project

Prison Journalism Project is supported by people like you. Support Prison Journalism Project today.

prisonjournalismproject.fundjournalism.org

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's always been obvious that the anti-DEI backlash wasn't driven by opposition to silly or ineffective trainings, it was opposition to diversity itself.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Jan 22

BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.

(b) The Federal contracting process shall be streamlined to enhance
speed and efficiency, reduce costs, and require Federal contractors and subcontractors to comply with our civil-rights laws. Accordingly:
(1) Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked. For 90 days from the date of this order, Federal contractors may continue to comply with the regulatory scheme in effect on January 20, 2025.
(ii) The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor shall immediately cease:
(A) Promoting "diversity";
(B) Holding Federal contractors and subcontractors responsible for taking "affirmative action"; and
(C) Allowing or encouraging Federal contractors and subcontractors to engage in workforce balancing based on race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin.

(iii) In accordance with Executive Order 13279 of December 12, 2002
(Equal Protection of the Laws for Faith-Based and Community
Organizations), the employment, procurement, and contracting practices of Federal contractors and subcontractors shall not consider race, color, sex, sexual preference, religion, or national origin in ways that violate the Nation's civil rights laws.
(iv) The head of each agency shall include in every contract or grant
award:
(A) A term requiring the contractual counterparty or grant recipient to agree that its compliance in all respects with all applicable Federal
anti-discrimination laws is material to the government's payment
decisions for purposes of section 3729(b) (4) of title 31, United States
Code; and
(B) A term requiring such counterparty or recipient to certify that it does not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable
Federal anti-discrimination laws.

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · Jan 21

We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.

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Travis View @travisview.bsky.social · Jan 20

I have an ominous feeling that the people currently saying “it’s not a Nazi salute” will soon be saying “it’s just a symbol from Hinduism.”

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Jan 17

Grateful for the support of @umisrcps.bsky.social through the Inglehardt scholarship! Happy to chat with anyone looking to apply.

Center for Political Studies @umisrcps.bsky.social · Jan 17

With funds from the Ronald F. Inglehardt scholarship, #ISRNextGeneration scholar @ch4rlotte.bsky.social is completing field work in Saint Denis, France to understand the how populations there, and in Chicago, understand state violence. The CPS scholarship is open for 2025: https://buff.ly/4fRFJGI

Charlotte Boucher of the University of Michigan Center for Political Studies: I argue that our current understanding of police violence and the resulting engagement or withdrawal from the state is overly simplistic... Residents instead perform different forms of negotiated engagement with the state, influenced by the broader perception of state responsiveness or negligence as informed by their experiences with the police.

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Jan 10

the web of regulatory roadblocks stopping previously incarcerated ppl with the desire & qualifications to serve as firefighters in California. This stigma against incarcerated people has reduced the numbers of available firefighters in LA right now. The carceral state does not keep you safe.

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Jan 10

incarcerated people, who r paid pennies 4 this important & dangerous work. When they're released from prison, they r barred from accessing most firefighting jobs in Cali bc of regressive, racist, & dangerous employment laws. In 2020 Prof. Melissa Burch & I investigated (con't) tinyurl.com/4kw6wh3v

The Best Firefighting Jobs Require the EMT License

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Jan 10

is what isn't being talked about. While many people know that the recent LA budget took millions away from the FD and gave it to police, this is only one example of funding & support for the police state resulting in LESS safety & security. Around 30% of wildfire firefighters in Cali are (con't)

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Jan 10

The current rightwing talking points about LAFD & California FD services being 'too woke', etc. is obvi unserious drivel meant 2 distract from obvious impacts of climate change & neolib austerity politics on public services. These arguments can & should b disregarded. What's more dangerous (con't)

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Yes, Henry Kissinger is still dead. @iskissingerdeadyet.bsky.social · Nov 30

YES! Henry Kissinger is finally dead.

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Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Nov 30

Cannot express how happy I am that this is my first Blue Sky post.

Charlotte Boucher @ch4rlotte.bsky.social · Nov 30

HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD

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