Alex Vitale
Professor, Sociology
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B.A., Hampshire College, 1989, Urban Anthropology
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, 2001, Sociology
Alex S. Vitale is professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project. He has spent the last 25 years writing about policing and consults both police departments and human rights organizations internationally.
He is the author of City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics and The End of Policing. He is also a frequent essayist, whose writings have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, NY Daily News, and USA Today.
