{"id":49306,"date":"2020-06-19T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/?p=49306"},"modified":"2021-06-14T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T19:44:05","slug":"ioc-grant-awarded-for-work-on-covid-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/ioc-grant-awarded-for-work-on-covid-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID &#038; Policing Work Gets IOC Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\">Initiative on Cities<\/a> (IOC) awarded five faculty-led teams with seed grant funding as a result of its call for COVID-19 Urban Research-to-Action proposals. Assistant Professor of Sociology\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sociology\/faculty-staff\/faculty\/jessica-simes\/\"><strong>Jessica Simes<\/strong><\/a><span>\u00a0and\u00a0Visiting Scholar in Sociology and\u00a0Ph.D. candidate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/jjahn\/home\"><strong>Jaquelyn Jahn<\/strong><\/a><span>\u00a0received funding for their project, &#8220;Race, Place, and Policing During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-City Study.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jessica\u00a0and Jaquelyn\u00a0will examine if and how COVID-19 has changed low-level policing (which includes enforcement and arrests based on quality-of-life offenses such as disorderly conduct, property damage, unauthorized public gathering, or trespassing) in eight U.S. cities, particularly with regard to the racial inequities in rates of police-initiated interactions. You can learn more about their project on the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2020\/06\/03\/2020-covid-19-urban-research-to-action-award-race-place-and-policing-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-a-multi-city-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IOC website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Dept. of Sociology will work on the project &#8220;Race, Place, and Policing During the COVID-19 Pandemic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,376],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49306"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56219,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49306\/revisions\/56219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}