Thomas Owen Baker worked as a police officer for approximately nine years. He is currently pursuing his PhD in criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and was selected by the Pat Tillman Foundation in 2018 as a Tillman Scholar. His research focuses on police use of force and its social implications. Follow him on Twitter @thomasowenbaker or catch him discussing the policing on The Discipline and Punish Podcast.
On March 29, a Chicago police officer shot and killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo while responding to a report of “shots fired.” On Thursday, police body-camera footage of the killing was released to the public. The video appears to show police ...
A police officer in the rural Virginia town of Windsor was recently terminated after body-camera footage of a Dec. 5, 2020, traffic stop and use-of-force incident was released. After video of the incident “became viral,” Windsor Police Chief ...
When the George Floyd homicide and subsequent civil unrest began earlier this year, police violence and its social implications were already on my mind. The 11th anniversary of my own experience using deadly force as a police officer was quickly ...
After an officer from the Lancaster City Bureau of Police shot and killed Ricardo Munoz Sunday afternoon, authorities released body-camera footage of the incident within just a few hours. The video appears to show Munoz chasing a police officer ...
