Paul Takao Takagi (May 3, 1923 – September 13, 2015)[1][2] was a Japanese-American sociologist, criminologist, social justice activist, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
He had been a prisoner at the Manzanar War Relocation Center located near Independence, California, beginning in 1942, as part of the enforcement of Executive Order 9066.
Hannah recalled that their mother, Yasu Takagi, arrived in the United States several years after their father.
[7] He was a noted advocate for social justice and community policing, and was a key figure in the Third World Liberation Front strikes of 1968 on Berkeley's campus.
[2] A leading scholar of radical criminology,[8] he was also active in researching racial disparities in police use of force in the United States.