2024 Schroeder Fellow

Alesha Lewis is a 2024 Schroeder Fellow.  Her study will include both a statistical analysis of police force as well as an analysis of the news coverage surrounding shootings across the US. She plans to examine whether the race of a victim predicts the likelihood of an outcome being fatal with the SPOTLITE data set. Using the Global News Index and the Archer system, she intends to examine articles that cover police shootings and use discourse features to analyze differences in sentiment, depending on the race of the civilian involved. To observe what kinds of shooting incidents generate negative news coverage, she will also conduct a search for news stories on protests that were related to police violence against African Americans.