Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees hopes for an equitable city that can ‘live with difference’
He's pursuing a number of projects to combat poverty and improve the city's sustainability.
Black Lives Matter
How the rise of anti-crime politics caused lasting harm to black Americans
Law professor James Forman Jr discusses the dangers of overreacting to an uptick in violent crime.
US policing never adjusted to the decades-long decline in urban violence
US cities are about as safe as ever, but police practices don't reflect that, says sociologist Patrick Sharkey.
Academics are mapping the legacy of slavery in Britain’s cities
The Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project is mapping every British address linked to a slave-owner.
Camden, New Jersey, isn’t really a model for police reform
Beneath the hype, the city's experience is much more complicated.
How America became over-policed and under-policed at the same time
Author and journalist Jill Leovy explains how the United States has failed to extend state protection equally to all citizens.
White Papers
The reality of US city budgets: Police funding eclipses most other agencies’
City Monitor analysed the past three years of general-fund budgets from US cities that have seen major or noteworthy protests in 2020.
British cities face a long overdue reckoning with racist monuments
Figures of the slave trade are honored in public spaces throughout Britain's cities, and opposition has rarely found footing in mainstream politics.
Why you shouldn’t confuse 2020 for 1968
Author and historian Rick Perlstein discusses the current limits on law-and-order politics.
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