BBC News, June 2020 – Professor Tricia Rose discusses the issues of policing and protest in the United States, emphasizing that police forces have been given more power and resources over the past few decades resulting in an increase in police brutality. Rose suggests revising the current policing model and reducing the budgets and scope of power of police forces. While commenting on the significant momentum generated by the ongoing protests in the U.S., Rose points out that memorials, marches, and funerals alone do not guarantee systemic change.

“It's really about connecting the police to the criminal justice system as a whole to deep levels of wealth inequality, profound educational inequities, housing discrimination. And my own research in these areas show that it's an interlocking web that deeply crushes people. And the police are really one tipping point in relation to that broader system.” - Tricia Rose