Alli sits down to chat with three Indigenous activists, scholars, and survivors, Bret Ann Evered, Shalese Snowdon, and Jessica Smith, to better understand the root causes of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women epidemic. Alli's friend and colleague T Leeper joins for this important dialogue ..read more

Alli keeps the conversation going about your Fourth Amendment rights and what law enforcement can and cannot do during searches, seizures, interrogations, and frisks ..read more

When can the police take your property? Search your home? Arrest you? Episode 009 covers the major Supreme Court cases that restrict police power over individual liberties ..read more

Do you know when the police have the legal authority to search you? What about if they don't have a warrant? Episode 009 explores how the 4th Amendment in the Bill of Rights still governs your interactions with law enforcement today ..read more

What is "the code," "the blue curtain," or "the blue wall of silence"? In this episode, we dig more into the functions and roles that American police play, highlighting significant experimental studies and insights into policing personalities ..read more

This episode taps into the brief history of how American police were established, noting also the different forms in which police exist in 2020 ..read more

This episode introduces the ideologies of crime control and due process, as well as the four amendments from your Bill of Rights that you MUST know to study criminal justice ..read more

The conclusion to our three-part panel series about being a non-black ally to the Black Lives Matter revolution. Panelists include (in alphabetical order): (1) Nate LaCoursiere, J.D. (he/him/his), Senior Lecturer, Legal Studies & Criminal Justice Program, UWS - Prior to joining UWS, Nate served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Duluth, Minnesota, handling all forms of affirmative and defensive civil litigation for the city, including Section 1983 constitutional litigation and public-employee grievance-arbitration matters, which further included discipline or termination of law ..read more

The panel from Episode 003 continues their discussion of nonblack ally-ship to the Black Lives Matter Revolution, this time focusing on the concept of white fragility. Panelists include (in alphabetical order): (1) Nate LaCoursiere, J.D. (he/him/his), Senior Lecturer, Legal Studies & Criminal Justice Program, UWS - Prior to joining UWS, Nate served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Duluth, Minnesota, handling all forms of affirmative and defensive civil litigation for the city, including Section 1983 constitutional litigation and public-employee grievance-arbitration matters ..read more

A panel of non-black Americans from different regions and age groups introduce themselves, explain why they wanted to start this conversation, and weigh in on why we aren't saying "All Lives Matter" in 2020. Panelists include (in alphabetical order): (1) Nate LaCoursiere, J.D. (he/him/his), Senior Lecturer, Legal Studies & Criminal Justice Program, UWS - Prior to joining UWS, Nate served as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Duluth, Minnesota, handling all forms of affirmative and defensive civil litigation for the city, including Section 1983 constitutional litigation and public ..read more