Police and Transgender and Gender Diverse People in the . . . Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people in the United States continue to face dire rates of police violence and harassment However, little research has examined this phenomenon using large-scale nationwide data
Transgender Cop Weighs in on Dangers of Walking While Trans Transgender people have a name for the uneasiness they feel when they are in public, facing dirty looks, hateful insults from strangers, and a perceived presumption of guilt from police It's
Most officers say the media treat police unfairly Just 18% of officers disagree About four-in-ten officers (42%) strongly agree that the media are unfair to police While the general sentiment among police that the media treat them unfairly is shared across gender, racial and ethnic lines, some officers feel more strongly about it than others
Why police violence so often targets trans people | Vox According to a 2013 report by the Anti-Violence Project, trans people are 3 7 times more likely to experience police violence and 7 times more likely to experience physical violence when
‘It’s easy to mistrust police when they keep on killing us . . . Police violence has been shown to be a rather constant, but silent, phenomenon, stemming from the institutionalized racism, homophobia and transphobia that have long been rooted within the criminal justice system (Dreyer et al , Citation 2020) Normalized discrimination is evident in the ways in which hate crimes are processed by law enforcement