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John Noakes, an internationally known scholar on the policing of political protests, is chair of the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. In addition to the policing of protests, Professor Noakes has also published research on the origins of the FBI and FBI surveillance of Hollywood in the 1940s. At Arcadia he teaches courses on Social Theory, Social Movements, Comparative Criminal Justice Systems, and Wrongful Convictions, among others.
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What do you do?
Study how police respond to street protests"including the history of how they have respond"differences in the past 50 years
Police violence in the 1960s produced martyrs who helped protesters get sympathy and to recruit.
Negotiated management model of police dealing with protest
Strategic incapacitation"
Police use of force continuum"supposedly proportional to protester force used.
Police use pepper spray, rubber bullets, flash bangs"goal, get the protesters to be inactive for an hour or two, ie., the duration of the protest.
Protesters escalate by refusing to obey officers, blocking public thorofare, snake marches.
Did distribution of surplus military equipment to police departments affect policing of protests?
Bicycle policing"equal moveable barriers
Its a Wonderful Life movie as subversive, according to the FBI?
Also The Best Years of Our Life and Gentlemens Agreement"both Oscar winners.
Racializing Subversion: The FBI and the Depiction of Race in Early Cold War Movies
Wrongful Convictions and Exonerations: Reasons innocent people are wrongfully convicted (between 30,000 and 150,000 a year.)
Eyewitness misidentification, interrogations that produce confessions by innocent people, Jailhouse snitches.
DNA and scientific forensics prevent
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