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Nicolas Gutierrez III @nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🚨 FIRST FIRST-AUTHORED PUB! 🚨 In LA, mutual aid groups supporting unhoused neighbors during encampment sweeps face arrests, citations, etc. We show how these helpers experience and navigate their own criminalization. @uscsociology.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14624745261428582

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

“They really target people for helping other people”: The criminalization of mutual aid during encampment sweeps in Los Angeles, CA journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Nicolas Gutierrez III @nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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Tradeoffs @tradeoffs.org · 20/11/2025

Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move. Read the story: tradeoffs.org/2025/11/20/h... Published in partnership with @themarshallproject.org.

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Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.

Several cities and counties are addressing street homelessness with a new approach, which experts say can clear encampments while protecting the health of people who are forced to move.

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Nicolas Gutierrez III @nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Thank you, @eri-usc.bsky.social & @uscsociology.bsky.social, for having us at the ERI Fall Faculty & Graduate Student Lunch and Learn! 👨🏻‍🏫

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Nicolas Gutierrez III @nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Check out my latest piece on the ERI Blog! “By linking deportation to DUIs, H.R. 875 would widen the net of immigration enforcement, extending it through traffic stops and sobriety checkpoints conducted by local officers.” @eri-usc.bsky.social

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USC Equity Research Institute (ERI) @eri-usc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

🚨 Under H.R. 875, even a DUI arrest—not a conviction—could trigger deportation. Framed as “public safety,” the bill would expand racialized policing, detention, and family separation, deepening the harms immigrant communities already face. 1/2

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Demetrius Miles Murphy, Ph.D. @demetriusmurphy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m excited to share that I defended my Ph.D. and will join Boston College this fall as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and African and African Diaspora Studies. Thank you to my committee, academic community, and family for their unwavering support and love.

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Nicolas Gutierrez III @nicolasgutierrez.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/11/2024

Can people who lost their belongings in "sweeps" of homeless encampments recover them? Some cities have storage programs, but as one advocate says, they offer only an “illusion of compassion.” Here's what we found ⬇️

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Cities Say They Store Property Taken From Homeless Encampments. People Rarely Get Their Things Back.

Storage programs are meant to protect people’s property rights and allow them to reclaim their possessions. But they rarely accomplish either objective, according to a ProPublica investigation of citi...

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