Charlotte Boucher

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Jesus what an absolutely useless party.

Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.

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

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

‘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.

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...

Chinese researchers invent worlds best chatbot - American economy collapses

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.

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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.

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

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.”

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

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.

The Best Firefighting Jobs Require the EMT License

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

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)

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)

YES! Henry Kissinger is finally dead.

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

HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD