Lorie Fridell

Mitch Perry Report for 6.30.16 — The GOP’s Tom Steyer?

Published on June 30, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

There are many people in the world concerned about the pace of climate change, and are our leaders doing enough to combat it for future generations? Most of those people aren’t elected officials in the Republican Party. In recent years, the GOP has castigated San Francisco-based environmentalist Tom Steyer, tagging him with famed boogeyman George Soros as among the biggest liberals they love to loathe, ostensibly because of their financial resources to help out Democrats. Steyer’s passion is combating climate change, and his…

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Justice Dept. adopts USF professor’s training program that hopes to reduce law enforcement bias

Published on June 29, 2016 in The Bay and the 'Burg/Top Headlines by Mitch Perry

The U.S. Department of Justice announced this week that it will now train all of its law enforcement agents and prosecutors to recognize and address implicit bias as part of its regular training curricula, using a program developed by USF Associate Professor of Criminology, Lorie Fridell. The demand for such programs has spread in the wake of a series of shootings of unarmed black men by white police officers in recent years. It comes after the DOJ was criticized for not developing its…

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