{"id":41142,"date":"2026-02-23T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=41142"},"modified":"2026-03-27T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:15:50","slug":"geniece-monde-comments-on-greenville-police-officers-speeding-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/geniece-monde-comments-on-greenville-police-officers-speeding-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Geniece Mond\u00e9 comments on Greenville police officer&#8217;s speeding incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/geniece-crawford-monde\/\">Geniece Mond\u00e9<\/a> spoke to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/02\/19\/officer-avoids-discipline-after-being-caught-camera-speeding\/\">FOX Carolina News<\/a> reporter about an incident involving an off-duty Greenville police officer who was filmed driving her squad car at dangerously high speeds in a 45-mph zone. Despite video evidence of the event, no accountability measures were enforced according to the FOX Carolina investigation. Mond\u00e9, the Herman N. Hipp Associate Professor of Sociology who studies police interactions, told reporter Scottie Hunter that the lack of disciplinary action sends the wrong message to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems that they (Greenville Police Department officials) were willing to take the officer\u2019s account of what took place as truth without further investigation,&#8221; Mond\u00e9 said. &#8220;It sets a bad precedent for how investigations are done when the individuals under investigation are law enforcement officers. It says that there\u2019s one set of rules for law enforcement officers who are to serve and protect and a different set of rules for citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociology&#8217;s Mond\u00e9 studies police interactions. She tells FOX Carolina Investigates that the same set of rules should apply to both civilians and law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41712,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142\/revisions\/41712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}