by Tyler Hammett | Aug 5, 2020 | ROLC News
ROLC Director Joel Samuels was quoted in a front-page article of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The story covers an FBI and IRS raid of Optima Management Group as part of a long-standing investigation against Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian oligarch accused of laundering...
by Kiel Downey | Sep 27, 2019 | ROLC News
In August of 2018, ROLC was gifted $95,500 by the Vital Projects Fund, Inc. to support research into the roles and responsibilities of sheriffs in the 50 states—The Sheriff Accountability Project. The project is led by Jessica Pishko, a Visiting Fellow with ROLC. Read...
by Kiel Downey | Feb 5, 2019 | ROLC News
ROLC Visiting Fellow Jessica Pishko was recently featured in an article by The Christian Science Monitor which discussed the growing role of Sheriffs in immigration. With support from the Vital Projects Fund, Ms. Pishko leads the Sheriff Accountability Project...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 9, 2019 | Publication
Extant research on police use of force has established that force is not distributed evenly across communities, with minority threat, ecological contamination, and social disorganisation some of the most common theories used to understand the distribution of police...
