Overseeing Policing in East Lansing

On this episode of East Lansing Insider, brought to you by ELi in partnership with Impact 89FM, ELi’s Publisher and Executive Director Alice Dreger and reporter Heather Brothers speak with Cedrick Heraux, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Adrian College and a member of East Lansing’s special Study Committee on an Independent Police Oversight Commission. This week, City Council passed the ordinance establishing an oversight commission for the East Lansing Police Department, and we asked Prof. Heraux about whether he sees that new commission as having been adequately empowered, what he sees as important about policing culture in East Lansing, and more.