Author: Vincent Liu
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The Role of Teachers In Social Inequality
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As the Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said, “All students deserve access to safe, supportive schools and classrooms.” Today, these privileges remain out of reach for many. Since the 1990s, disciplinary action and exclusionary policies have widened racial gaps in school environments as they have increased in popularity over recent…
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The Illinois SAFE-T Act: Eliminating Racial Bias in Pretrial Detention
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In January 2023, Illinois became the first state in the nation to completely abolish the cash bail system. Governor Pritzker signed the Safety, Accountability, Fairness and Equity-Today Act, abbreviated as the SAFE-T Act, into law in February 2021 after a 32-23 vote in the Illinois Senate. This Act proposes a…
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No More No-Knock: Simple Reforms That Can Save Lives
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Imagine you’re comfortably dozing in bed at your partner’s home in the early hours of the morning. Suddenly, around 6 am, you jerk awake as the sound of loud voices permeates the room and you open your eyes in the semi-darkness to see two police officers with guns drawn and…
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Soldiers to Guardians: Transition to a Community Policing Model
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The murder of George Floyd, committed by a former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer in an extremely gruesome and heinous fashion, caught the world’s attention and shed light on other unjust slayings. However, police killings are not new. Data collected by Statista suggested that over 1,000 known individuals were murdered…