We are very happy to announce that the Cline Center received a grant award from the University of Illinois Social and Behavioral Sciences Initiative. It will support work on a comprehensive national database of police uses of lethal force and their social consequences.
The co-principal investigators are our Director, Professor Scott Althaus and Cline Center Affiliates Professors Jennifer Robbennolt of the College of Law and Prof. Andrea Miller of the Psychology Department.
To learn more about the project and SBSRI, see: https://research.illinois.edu/SBSRI
The Cline Center launched this collaboration through the 2017 Boeschenstein Seminar on Public Policy, where we hosted academic and law enforcement experts and community stakeholders from around the country. Attendees reached a consensus on the necessity and design principles of a system for monitoring the occurrence and aftermath of police uses of force using the Cline Center Global News Archive and text analytic technologies.
