Andrea Button-Schnick

This Organization Proved There Was an Alternative to the Police. Now It’s Being Defunded. | The Nation In Eugene, Oregon, CAHOOTS, a decades-old crisis-response program, may disappear, but the programs it inspired have spread across the United States, including to nearby Portland.

A decades-old crisis-response program in Eugene, Oregon, helped inspire alternatives to policing across the country. Now it's being defunded, the Nation reports: www.thenation.com/ar...

What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill.

So-called “less-lethal” weapons like those that have been used against demonstrators in Los Angeles can cause severe, lasting harm like nerve or brain damage or blindness. They can also kill. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

Teaching white collar crime this semester was not the best time to implement my “have all lecture slides completely up to date on examples” plan for course prep. I just - I think I need to settle for a picture of a dumpster fire.
Glad I’m not teaching Soc of Law, though.

French toast breakfast for the family and making my way through the Tal Bauer universe - good start to my kinda sorta spring break.

I feel like my best contribution to the discourse is to list the books I’m currently reading as I process the current state of the world
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing - Shapiro.
Prisoners on Criminology - Tregea.
She-Wolf and Cub - Saintcrow.
Witch King - Wells.

I feel like it is fitting that I’m posting an end-of-grading update about getting to play video games, prep for new classes, and play a cyberpunk ttrpg with my brother and my husband as my first non-cat contribution to this space.

The tower of fluff