It is obligatory for the police to ensure the safety of the people, though, in recent times, police shootings have created a lot of problems in the US. It seems like the police are not doing its job right after all. Racial discrimination is a major issue in the US, and there have been lots of protests in the past years.
Reuters published a news about police killings and its impact on different educational institutions. The John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan is promoting its new criminology courses by advertising slogans like "Justice now, but Justice how?" and "If the system is ever going to change, this is the place where change will begin."
John Jay is making academic changes after the incidents of black people getting killed by police in the past years in Cleveland, Chicago, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Ferguson Missouri. Police officers have also been killed in Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and Iowa by armed people. These events questioned the US criminal justice system.
Universities are revising their criminology courses, as people who do these courses choose to become police officers, criminologists, and investigators. The State University of New York at Albany is keen on helping the minorities by creating job opportunities for them as soon as they complete their courses.
Irvine School at the University of California wants to teach the upcoming policemen to understand the thinking of criminals. James Lynch, a Maryland university professor, found such changes helpful for the future and said that there's some change coming, and that's positive.
US press from also added the views of young criminologists. A criminology Teacher of the Irvine School at University of California, Teresa Dalton stated that racial bias was associated with her profile and the mindset needs to be changed. She welcomed the initiatives to reform the criminology courses.
