11/08
2021
Forum

Policing In America

6:00 pm
Harold Alfond Forum
Biddeford Campus
Free and open to the public
With the proliferation of cell phone cameras and dashboard footage, media has been rife with reports of police appearing to use excessive force during routine interventions, especially in Black and poor communities. Following George Floyd’s murder, there has been increased focus on how policing is practiced in America, ranging from demands to defund police departments entirely, to more moderate calls for reform, to staunch defenders of the thin blue line. 

Neill Gross, Ph.D., the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College, is a former police officer who studies law enforcement. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times opinion pages, where he has presented ideas for police reform. Brendan McQuade, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of criminology at the University of Southern Maine and the author of Pacifying the Homeland: Intelligence Fusion and Mass Surveillance, which earned a Paul Sweezy Marxist Sociology Book Award. McQuade’s work argues for “abolition” and against increased surveillance, policing, and mass incarceration. 

Hosted by UNE President James Herbert and moderated by Anousr Majid, UNE’s vice president for Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Humanities, the President’s Forum fosters a marketplace of ideas that allows difficult conversations to take place with open-mindedness and respect. 

Join us in person at the Harold Alfond Forum, Biddeford Campus, or watch live on the web at www.une.edu/live or on Facebook Live at www.facebook.com/universityofnewengland.

Address

Harold Alfond Forum
Biddeford, ME
United States

Poster for the President's Forum: Policing in America event