Charlotte Boucher
@ch4rlotte.bsky.social
Political Science PhD candidate @ UMich. Studying police violence/protection and citizenship in the US and France.
Check out my new article in @inquest.bsky.social about the prosecution of Luigi Mangione.
"The charges against [Mangione] make clear that the criminal legal system’s response to murder has everything to do with who is murdered—and who does the murdering." Political scientist @ch4rlotte.bsky.social on the workings of racial capitalism.
Making an Example of Luigi Mangione - Charlotte Boucher - Inquest
The criminal legal system aims to send a message by massively overcharging him: it will defend racial capitalism above all else.
inquest.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Check out my new article in @inquest.bsky.social about the prosecution of Luigi Mangione.
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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.
April 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
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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.
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.
December 17, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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.
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.
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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
March 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
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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
March 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
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Jesus what an absolutely useless party.
Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.
Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.
March 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Jesus what an absolutely useless party.
Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.
Stupid and Evil will continue to beat stupid and useless.
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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
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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
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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...
We obtained data that tells a very different story about when, and who, TPD watches.
gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...
‘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.
gizmodo.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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...
We obtained data that tells a very different story about when, and who, TPD watches.
gizmodo.com/clearly-disc...
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Chinese researchers invent worlds best chatbot - American economy collapses
January 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Chinese researchers invent worlds best chatbot - American economy collapses
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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.
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.
Striking argument from California AG Rob Bonta: If local law enforcement complied with Trump's demand that they carry out his immigration agenda, it would actually make CA residents *less* safe.
On the pod, Bonta spells this out:
newrepublic.com/article/1906...
On the pod, Bonta spells this out:
newrepublic.com/article/1906...
January 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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.
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.
BREAKING: In a new executive order sent out by the White House, Donald Trump has revoked the federal contractor nondiscrimination executive order, EO 11246, that was signed by Lyndon Johnson in 1965 and has protected employees of businesses seeking federal contracts from discrimination ever since.
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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.
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We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
January 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We can stop reading the NYT and WaPo any time and support independent journalism instead.
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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.”
January 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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.
With funds from the Ronald F. Inglehardt scholarship, #ISRNextGeneration scholar @ch4rlotte.bsky.social is completing field work in Saint Denis, France to understand the how populations there, and in Chicago, understand state violence. The CPS scholarship is open for 2025: https://buff.ly/4fRFJGI
January 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Grateful for the support of @umisrcps.bsky.social through the Inglehardt scholarship! Happy to chat with anyone looking to apply.
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)
January 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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)
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YES! Henry Kissinger is finally dead.
November 30, 2023 at 2:00 AM
YES! Henry Kissinger is finally dead.
HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD
November 30, 2023 at 2:03 AM
HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD