| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Craig B. Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, Jamie Kalven |
Youth/police Encounters on Chicago's South Side: Acknowledging the Realities |
51 Georgia Law Review 1079 (Summer, 2017) |
This Article was originally published in the 2016 Volume of the University of Chicago Legal Forum, entitled Policing the Police. The suggested citation to this Article is: Craig Futterman et al., They Have All the Power: Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago's South Side, 2016 U. Chi. Legal F. 125. The Article appears with the permission of the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Stephanie Francis Ward |
#Attention |
102-DEC ABA Journal 28 (December, 2016) |
FEW PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA are familiar with intersectionality. But many understand--and embrace--the hashtag #blackgirlsmatter, which is a more descriptive way to point out that some people who experience oppression have multiple social categorizations and frequently are forgotten in social justice movements. The African American Policy Forum,... |
2016 |
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| Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
#Sayhername #Blackwomenslivesmatter: State Violence in Policing the Black Female Body |
67 Mercer Law Review 651 (Winter 2016) |
On June 30, 1974, Alberta Williams King was shot and killed in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia as she played the organ for Sunday morning service. Mrs. King, seventy years old, was the mother of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. News of her death was overshadowed by four Black men: her son, killed six years... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Andrea J. Ritchie |
#Sayhername: Racial Profiling and Police Violence Against Black Women |
41 Harbinger 187 (August 11, 2016) |
As the nation wrestles with the relentless reality of police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous bodies and the enduring impacts of mass incarceration on individuals, families and communities of color, we also continue to grapple with invisibility and erasure of women's experiences of state violence. In November of 2015, I had the distinct... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Justice Tankebe, Michael D. Reisig, Xia Wang, University of Cambridge, Arizona State University |
A Multidimensional Model of Police Legitimacy: a Cross-cultural Assessment |
40 Law and Human Behavior 11 (February, 2016) |
This study used survey data from cross-sectional, university-based samples of young adults in different cultural settings (i.e., the United States and Ghana) to accomplish 2 main objectives: (1) to construct a 4-dimensional police legitimacy scale, and (2) to assess the relationship that police legitimacy and feelings of obligation to obey the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; Affiliated Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project |
America, Islam, and Constitutionalism: Muslim American Poverty and the Mounting Police State |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 279 (November, 2016) |
The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Edited by Julianne Hammer and Omar Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 386. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521175524. On the Muslim Question. By Anne Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691157047. What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith... |
2016 |
Yes |
| John Rappaport |
An Insurance-based Typology of Police Misconduct |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 369 (2016) |
Not all police misconduct is the same, and different institutional regimes might manage different sorts of misconduct most effectively. This Article surveys the universe of police malfeasance from the perspective of an important but underappreciated regulatory regime: liability insurance. Nearly all but the very largest municipalities buy insurance... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jonathan Witmer-Rich |
Arbitrary Law Enforcement Is Unreasonable: Whren's Failure to Hold Police Accountable for Traffic Enforcement Policies |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1059 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 1059 I. Written Rules Versus Enforcement Practice: Creating the Conditions for Arbitrariness. 1063 II. Arbitrary Law Enforcement Is Unreasonable. 1064 III. Police Accountability for Enforcement Policy. 1066 IV. Pretextual Stops As Entrapment. 1073 V. The False Danger of Fourth Amendment Variability. 1077 VI. Preventing... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jaclyn M. D'Esposito |
Are Officers Equipped to Protect and Serve Their Communities? An Examination into the Militarization of America's Police and Police Legitimacy |
30 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 403 (2016) |
On January 8, 2015, at 3:30 p.m., Officer Matthew Taylor of the Salt Lake City Police Department responded to a call about a suspicious male going door to door with a shovel asking neighbors if he could shovel their property for money. The caller explained that the man's behavior was suspicious because there was not enough snow on the ground to... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Forrest Stuart |
Becoming "Copwise": Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-level Criminalization |
50 Law and Society Review 279 (June, 2016) |
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed a historic expansion of its criminal justice system. This article examines how street-level criminalization transforms the cultural contexts of poor urban communities. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Los Angeles' Skid Row-the site of one of the most aggressive zero-tolerance policing; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Law and Society Review June, 2016 Article BECOMING COPWISE: POLICING, CULTURE, AND THE COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF STREET-LEVEL CRIMINALIZATION [FNa1... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Anthony A. Braga |
Better Policing Can Improve Legitimacy and Reduce Mass Incarceration |
129 Harvard Law Review Forum 233 (March, 2016) |
Recent events in Ferguson, New York City, Chicago, and elsewhere in the United States have exposed rifts in the relationships between the police and the communities they protect and serve. These incidents have damaged police legitimacy by promoting perceptions among community members that police do not play an appropriate role in making and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jocelyn Simonson |
Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1559 (August, 2016) |
This symposium Article articulates and defends a robust First Amendment right to record the police up to the point that the act of filming presents a concrete, physical impediment to a police officer or public safety. To the extent that courts have identified the constitutional values behind the right to record, they have, for the most part, relied... |
2016 |
Yes |
| M Adams , Max Rameau |
Black Community Control over Police |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 515 (2016) |
The Moment: From Uprising to Organizing. 515 I. Principles & Objectives. 518 II. Analysis. 520 A. Root Issue Versus Surface Issue. 520 B. Domestic Colonies: The Police as an Occupying Force. 521 C. Racial Prejudice Is Not the Problem. 524 1. Individual Racist Police. 524 2. End the Occupation and Shift Power. 525 III. The Proposition. 528 A. A... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Katheryn Russell-Brown |
Body Cameras, Police Violence, and Racial Credibility |
67 Florida Law Review Forum 207 (2016) |
Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes? Iesha Nunes's thoughtful and thorough Note, Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras, asks us to consider how to address the problem of police violence tied to racial profiling. Using the rallying cry at the heart of the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Anta Plowden |
Bringing Balance to the Force: the Militarization of America's Police Force and its Consequences |
71 University of Miami Law Review 281 (Fall, 2016) |
The current trend in the militarization of police can be traced back to the earliest times in our country. We are soon approaching a tipping point in which the combination of aggressive military tactics, wrongful deaths and injuries, and a lack of accountability will lead to an increase in civil unrest and animosity towards those who have sworn to... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David Thacher |
Channeling Police Discretion: the Hidden Potential of Focused Deterrence |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 533 (2016) |
The breadth of the criminal law and the unfettered discretion it creates are among the most significant challenges facing American criminal justice today. These twin problems have a particularly corrosive effect on policing, where they lay the foundations for many of the most prominent flashpoints for community anger, including intensive police... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Austin Spillar |
Chicago Has the Blueprint for Lasting Police Accountability Reform, but Can the City Build the Future it Needs? |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 136 (Spring, 2016) |
Who is policing the police? This has been the question that concerned members of Chicago communities have been asking for many decades, and in many ways, it was a question to which they already knew the answer. Back in 1972, the Metcalfe Report was released by a panel convened by South Side Congressman Robert Metcalfe in response to the death of 70... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jason Tashea |
Clicking for Complaints |
102-FEB ABA Journal 17 (February, 2016) |
Vidya Pappachan, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, had little time to prepare for a client's arraignment on a felony drug charge. But she had a tool at her disposal that allowed her to quickly look up information about the arresting officers. Pappachan asked her paralegal to search for the officers' names through a database; Search Snippet: ...americanbar.org National Pulse CLICKING FOR COMPLAINTS Databases Create Access to Police Misconduct Cases and Offer a Handy Tool for Defense Lawyers... |
2016 |
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| Jonathan M. Smith |
Closing the Gap Between What Is Lawful and What Is Right in Police Use of Force Jurisprudence by Making Police Departments More Democratic Institutions |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 315 (Spring 2016) |
No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. --Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Botsford I can't breathe. --Eric Garner... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Stephen Rushin |
Competing Case Studies of Structural Reform Litigation in American Police Departments |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 113 (Fall, 2016) |
In 1994, Congress passed 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which gives the U.S. Attorney General the authority to initiate structural reform litigation against police departments engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct. Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has investigated and reformed dozens of police departments across the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Liane C. Dublinski |
Comprehensive Police Officer Body Camera Guidelines in Illinois |
47 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1449 (Summer 2016) |
Following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri and Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore, Maryland, the public was hungry for answers about what had happened. Both cases involved testimony and evidence that contradicted with the police officer's side of the story. The respective cities in both cases were shaken by angry protests and riots in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Adam D. Franks |
Constitutional Law--fourth Amendment and Seizures--accidental Seizures by Deadly Force: Who Is Seized During a Police Shootout? Plumhoff V. Rickard, 134 S. Ct. 2012 (2014) |
38 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 493 (Spring, 2016) |
[Donald] Rickard, 44, and his live-in girlfriend, Kelly Allen, 44, died July 18 [, 2004,] after West Memphis police chased them into Memphis and shot into their car. . Police found them dead after their car slammed into a North Memphis house. Either the gunshots or the crash could have killed them, the med-cal examiner says. . Even if Rickard did; Search Snippet: ...ACCIDENTAL SEIZURES BY DEADLY FORCE: WHO IS SEIZED DURING A POLICE SHOOTOUT? PLUMHOFF v. RICKARD, 134 S. CT. 2012 (2014) Adam... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Josephine Ross |
Cops on Trial: Did Fourth Amendment Case Law Help George Zimmerman's Claim of Self-defense? |
40 Seattle University Law Review 1 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction: Police Privilege. 1 I. Supreme Court Case Law that Characterizes Police Aggression as Benign. 8 A. Chasing Civilians and Other Nonaggressive Behaviors. 9 B. Supreme Court Tolerance of Racial Profiling. 15 II. The Invisible Hand of the Supreme Court in George Zimmerman's Murder Trial. 20 A. Evidence Presented to Prove; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Seattle University Law Review Fall, 2016 Article COPS ON TRIAL: DID FOURTH AMENDMENT CASE LAW HELP GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S... |
2016 |
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| Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic |
Critical Perspectives on Police, Policing, and Mass Incarceration |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1531 (August, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1532 I. The New Jim Crow on Police and Policing. 1535 II. Imprisoned in a Black-White Paradigm of Race: Recent Scholarship That Fails to Take Account of a Police State. 1536 a. many jim crows: considering the experience of nonblack minority groups. 1537 b. responding to oppression: noticing alignments, crafting... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jeannine Bell , Mona Lynch |
Cross-sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-person Juries |
46 Seton Hall Law Review 419 (2016) |
After two grand juries failed to indict the police officers that killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014, our nation has engaged in polarizing discussions about how juries reach their decision. The very legitimacy of our justice system has come into question. Increasingly, deep concerns have been raised regarding the role of race and gender in... |
2016 |
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| Elizabeth J. Andonova |
Cycle of Misconduct: How Chicago Has Repeatedly Failed to Police its Police |
73 National Lawyers Guild Review 65 (Summer, 2016) |
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has often faced accusations of being dishonest and corrupt. To deal with CPD's bad reputation, numerous mayors and police superintendents created, and later tried to reform, agencies tasked with holding the police department and its staff accountable. None of their efforts have succeeded thus far. Every time an; Search Snippet: ...2016 CYCLE OF MISCONDUCT: HOW CHICAGO HAS REPEATEDLY FAILED TO POLICE ITS POLICE Elizabeth J. Andonova [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by National Lawyers Guild... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Sean Janda |
Decision-making During Interrogation: Towards a New Approach for Determining the Propensity of Deceptive Police Techniques to Produce False Confessions |
43 Lincoln Law Review 79 (2015-2016) |
For police officers investigating crimes, interrogations provide an invaluable opportunity both to develop evidence against a suspect and to help the officer understand exactly how the crime unfolded. In fact, interrogations are so important that at least one study has found that the fruit of a successful interrogation a confession is essential to; Search Snippet: ...TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE PROPENSITY OF DECEPTIVE POLICE TECHNIQUES TO PRODUCE FALSE CONFESSIONS Sean Janda Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David Weisburd |
Does Hot Spots Policing Inevitably Lead to Unfair and Abusive Police Practices, or Can We Maximize Both Fairness and Effectiveness in the New Proactive Policing? |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 661 (2016) |
Hot spots policing has emerged as one of the most important and widely diffused of what are sometimes termed the new policing strategies. Such strategies were developed in response to a critique of police effectiveness in preventing crime that developed in the late twentieth century. While hot spots policing strategies have been shown to be... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Doubling down on Racial Discrimination: the Racially Disparate Impacts of Crime-based Removals |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 993 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 994 I. Racial Profiling and Contemporary Developments in Crime-Based Removals. 1002 A. The Supreme Court's Authorization of Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement. 1004 1. Whren v. United States. 1005 2. United States v. Brignoni-Ponce. 1007 B. Increased State and Local Involvement in Immigration Enforcement. 1010 1. Section... |
2016 |
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Down by Law: Police Officers as Gang Sociology Experts |
52 Criminal Law Bulletin 7 (2916) |
J.D. Candidate, 2015, University of San Francisco School of Law. The author wishes to extend her deepest gratitude to Professor Steven F. Shatz, Philip & Muriel Barnett Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law, for his invaluable guidance and input during the preparation of this comment. Thank you also to Maxine Weksler, Appellate; Search Snippet: ...Issue 4 Summer 2016 Criminal Law Bulletin Down By Law: Police Officers as Gang Sociology Experts Magdalena Ridley[ * Introduction... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Marvin Zalman , Matthew Larson |
Elephants in the Station House: Serial Crimes, Wrongful Convictions, and Expanding Wrongful Conviction Analysis to Include Police Investigation |
79 Albany Law Review 941 (2015-2016) |
In this article we advocate that the study of miscarriages of justice be expanded to view the entirety of police crime investigation as a source of wrongful convictions. We set this proposal in a framework of how the inductive innocence paradigm was developed and analyze how the term causation is used in legal, scientific and case analysis. We... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Eric J. Miller |
Encountering Resistance: Contesting Policing and Procedural Justice |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 295 (2016) |
[A] free government . [is that] wherin they who are greatest . are not elevated above their brethren . [and] walk the streets as other men, may be spoken to freely, familiarly, friendly, without adoration. Police officers are executive agents empowered by the state to use physical force to coerce recalcitrant individuals to comply with public laws... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Charles R. Epp, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas |
Enforcing Order: an Ethnography of Urban Policing. By Didier Fassin. Cambridge, Uk: Polity Press, 2013. 320 Pp. $69.95 Cloth, $29.95 Paper |
50 Law and Society Review 256 (March, 2016) |
This fascinating book examines the punitive French police practices that triggered widespread rioting in French cities in 2005. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at the time of those rebellions, the analysis reveals how police officers justified their practices and why the people subjected to these practices so deeply resented... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David B. Rabbani |
Enhancing the Community Relations Service Arsenal: a Restorative Justice Solution for Community Conflicts with Local Law Enforcement That Have a Race-relations Basis |
17 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 567 (Winter 2016) |
People, I just want to say . . . can we all get along? Rodney King There have been several police-related incidents in recent years that many believe to be connected to race-relations issues. Perhaps the most infamous on both a national and international level is the police shooting of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on... |
2016 |
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| Joshua Chanin |
Evaluating Section 14141: an Empirical Review of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 67 (Fall, 2016) |
Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Act of 1994 fundamentally restructures the regulation of police behavior in the United States. Since the law's passage, dozens of police departments have undergone lengthy and complex reforms designed to eliminate a pattern or practice of misconduct. Despite the program's wide application, neither scholars nor... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Tyler Adams |
Factors in Police Misconduct Arbitration Outcomes: What Does it Take to Fire a Bad Cop? |
32 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 133 (Fall, 2016) |
Anecdotal evidence can easily be generated from many . jurisdictions to illustrate the fact that disciplinary actions, grounded in conduct which chiefs of police and presumably the public at large would find simply unacceptable, are often overturned by arbitrators. Disciplinary procedures for police officers across the country have been a source... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael D. White , Henry F. Fradella , Weston J. Morrow , Doug Mellom |
Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: a Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-frisk Activities in New York City |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law L. 9 (Fall, 2016) |
Stop-and-frisk has emerged as a popular crime control tactic in American policing. Though stop-and-frisk has a long, established legal history, the recent experiences in many jurisdictions demonstrate a strong disconnect between principle and practice. Arguably, stop-and-frisk has become the next iteration of a persistent undercurrent in racial... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael D. White , Henry F. Fradella , Weston J. Morrow , Doug Mellom |
Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: a Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-frisk Activities in New York City |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 9 (Fall, 2016) |
Stop-and-frisk has emerged as a popular crime control tactic in American policing. Though stop-and-frisk has a long, established legal history, the recent experiences in many jurisdictions demonstrate a strong disconnect between principle and practice. Arguably, stop-and-frisk has become the next iteration of a persistent undercurrent in racial; Search Snippet: ...Donald A. Dripps FEDERAL CIVIL LITIGATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICE REFORM: A NATURAL EXPERIMENT EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF THE FLOYD... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Joëlle Anne Moreno |
Flagrant Police Abuse: Why Black Lives (Also) Matter to the Fourth Amendment |
21 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 36 (Fall, 2016) |
Constitutional rights pivot on problems of proof. But traditional academic distinctions between procedural rules of evidence and substantive questions of constitutional law impede our understanding of how law works. In particular, how law works to identify, constrain, and remedy police abuse of constitutional rights. Treating rights and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Erik Nielsen |
Fourth Amendment Implications of Police-worn Body Cameras |
48 Saint Mary's Law Journal 115 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 115 II. Background. 120 A. The Fourth Amendment in General. 120 B. Video Surveillance and the Use of Pole Cameras. 129 III. Analysis. 133 A. Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and Body Camera Use. 133 B. Common Law Trespass Standard and Body Camera Use. 135 C. Legislative Response. 137 IV. Conclusion. 140 |
2016 |
Yes |
| Stephen E. Henderson |
Fourth Amendment Time Machines (And What They Might Say about Police Body Cameras) |
18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 933 (February, 2016) |
When it comes to criminal investigation, time travel is increasingly possible. Despite longstanding roots in traditional investigation, science is today providing something fundamentally different in the form of remarkably complete digital records. And those big data records not only store our past, but thanks to data mining they are in many; Search Snippet: ...FOURTH AMENDMENT TIME MACHINES (AND WHAT THEY MIGHT SAY ABOUT POLICE BODY CAMERAS) Stephen E. Henderson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 The... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
From Edward to Eric Garner and Beyond: the Importance of Constitutional Limitations on Lethal Use of Force in Police Reform |
12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 53 (Fall, 2016) |
One fateful October evening in 1974, two police officers were dispatched to a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, in response to a call about the burglary of an unoccupied house. Upon arriving at the scene, the police spotted a black fifteen-year-old boy running from the back of the house toward a fence in the back yard. The boy, Edward Garner, was... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Bill Ong Hing |
From Ferguson to Palestine: Disrupting Race-based Policing |
59 Howard Law Journal 559 (Spring 2016) |
INTRODUCTION. 560 I. HOW DID WE GET HERE?. 566 A. Racism - Driving While Black. 566 B. War on Drugs. 569 C. 9/11- Urban Areas Security Initiative/Urban Shield. 571 D. Broken Windows - Zero Tolerance/Stop and Frisk. 574 II. WHAT HAS BEEN THE RESPONSE?. 578 III. PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE. 584 A. Procedural Ideas. 585 1. Curtailment of sales of military... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kyle J. Jacob |
From Garner to Graham and Beyond: Police Liability for Use of Deadly Force - Ferguson Case Study |
91 Chicago-Kent Law Review 325 (2016) |
At approximately noon on Saturday, August 9, 2014, an unarmed black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. The details of the shooting have been widely disputed. Some believe that the officer was jumped, beaten, and overpowered and resorted to the only measure he had available to defend... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Camille A. Nelson |
Frontlines: Policing at the Nexus of Race and Mental Health |
43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 615 (April, 2016) |
The last several years have rendered issues at the intersection of race, mental health, and policing more acute. The frequency and violent, often lethal, nature of these incidents is forcing a national conversation about matters which many people would rather cast aside as volatile, controversial, or as simply irrelevant to conversations about the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Udi Ofer |
Getting it Right: Building Effective Civilian Review Boards to Oversee Police |
46 Seton Hall Law Review 1033 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 1033 II. Overview of Civilian Review Boards. 1039 A. History of Civilian Review Board. 1040 B. Civilian Review in the Nation's Top Fifty Police Departments. 1041 III. Key Components of Effective Civilian Review. 1043 A. Board Majority Nominated by Civic Organizations. 1044 B. Broad Scope to Review Complaints. 1045 C. Independent... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lawrence Rosenthal |
Good and Bad Ways to Address Police Violence |
48 Urban Lawyer 675 (Fall, 2016) |
[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices Second Series 158 (1921) Scholars have long been concerned about the prevalence of unlawful police violence against civilians. This has been coupled with a concern that police unfairly target racial minorities, particularly... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Samuel Walker |
Governing the American Police: Wrestling with the Problems of Democracy |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 615 (2016) |
Winston Churchill, the famed Prime Minister of England, once observed that it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Churchill's trenchant remark well states the problem of governing the police in the United States. For many decades, and not simply in the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael L. Perlin, Esq. , Alison J. Lynch, Esq. |
Had to Be Held down by Big Police: a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective on Interactions Between Police and Persons with Mental Disabilities |
43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 685 (April, 2016) |
Introduction. 685 I. Current State of Affairs. 696 II. Therapeutic Jurisprudence. 701 A. What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?. 701 B. Therapeutic Jurisprudence Implications of Police Decision-Making. 703 III. Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Policing, and the Significance of Counsel. 704 Conclusion. 709; Search Snippet: ...Urban Environment Article HAD TO BE HELD DOWN BY BIG POLICE : A THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE PERSPECTIVE ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES Michael L. Perlin, Esq. [FNa1... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Elliott Riebman |
How and Why a Code of Silence Between State's Attorneys and Police Officers Resulted in Unprosecuted Torture |
9 DePaul Journal for Social Justice Just. 1 (Summer, 2016) |
Beginning in the early 1970s, and spanning two decades, more than 110 African American suspects were systematically tortured by fifteen Chicago police officers all of whom were white. Lieutenant Jon Burge was the commanding officer of all of the perpetrators. Although these officers were protected from prosecution by the code of silence, the... |
2016 |
Yes |