| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Antony Barone Kolenc |
23 and Plea: Limiting Police Use of Genealogy Sites after Carpenter V. United States |
122 West Virginia Law Review 53 (Fall, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 54 II. Carpenter, the Fourth Amendment, and DNA Testing. 56 A. Historical Fourth Amendment Analysis and the Carpenter Decision. 57 1. The Dual Track of the Fourth Amendment. 57 2. The Carpenter Decision and Its Potential Impact on Police Action. 60 B. Understanding Genetic Privacy and Genealogy Databases. 62 1. The Promise of DNA... |
2019 |
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| Molly Griffard |
A Bias-free Predictive Policing Tool?: an Evaluation of the Nypd's Patternizr |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 43 (December, 2019) |
Introduction. 44 I. Background on Predictive Policing. 46 A. A Short History of Predictive Policing. 47 B. Critiques of Predictive Policing and Actuarial Justice. 49 i. Racial Biases. 49 ii. Unchecked Error: Data, Social Science, and Cognitive Biases. 52 1. Data Entry Errors. 53 2. Flawed Social Science. 53 3. Cognitive Biases. 54 iii.... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Nicholas M. Catania |
A Modern and Psychological Perspective on the Court's Lenient Requirements for a Finding of Qualified Immunity in Cases of Local Police Misconduct and its Effect on the Abuse of Police Discretion |
19 Florida Coastal Law Review 269 (Spring, 2019) |
The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Cynthia H. Conti-Cook |
A New Balance: Weighing Harms of Hiding Police Misconduct Information from the Public |
22 CUNY Law Review 148 (Winter, 2019) |
Three New York City events in the past two years have demonstrated how hiding information related to police misconduct harms its residents. In April 2016, the New York Police Department (NYPD) eliminated public access to misconduct information by taking down a clipboard in the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information's office that posted... |
2019 |
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| Cynthia H. Conti-Cook |
A New Balance: Weighing Harms of Hiding Police Misconduct Information from the Public |
22 CUNY Law Review 148 (Winter, 2019) |
Three New York City events in the past two years have demonstrated how hiding information related to police misconduct harms its residents. In April 2016, the New York Police Department (NYPD) eliminated public access to misconduct information by taking down a clipboard in the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information's office that posted; Search Snippet: ...Interest Practitioner Section A NEW BALANCE: WEIGHING HARMS OF HIDING POLICE MISCONDUCT INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC Cynthia H. Conti-Cook [FNd1... |
2019 |
Yes |
| I. Bennett Capers |
Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044 |
94 New York University Law Review Rev. 1 (April, 2019) |
In 2044, the United States is projected to become a majority-minority country, with people of color making up more than half of the population. And yet in the public imagination--from Robocop to Minority Report, from Star Trek to Star Wars, from A Clockwork Orange to 1984 to Brave New World--the future is usually envisioned as majority white.... |
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| I. Bennett Capers |
Afrofuturism, Critical Race Theory, and Policing in the Year 2044 |
94 New York University Law Review 1 (April, 2019) |
In 2044, the United States is projected to become a majority-minority country, with people of color making up more than half of the population. And yet in the public imagination--from Robocop to Minority Report, from Star Trek to Star Wars, from A Clockwork Orange to 1984 to Brave New World--the future is usually envisioned as majority white; Search Snippet: ...New York University Law Review April, 2019 Article AFROFUTURISM, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, AND POLICING IN THE YEAR 2044 I. Bennett Capers [FNa1] Copyright © 2019... |
2019 |
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| V. Noah Gimbel , Craig Muhammad |
Are Police Obsolete? Breaking Cycles of Violence Through Abolition Democracy |
40 Cardozo Law Review 1453 (April, 2019) |
On February 5, 2018, Baltimore activists organized a successful cease-fire weekend, during which no one was killed--and the cops were not to thank. Indeed, as community anti-violence organizers worked to cool hot feuds in order to prove that endless violence was not their destiny, the Baltimore Police Department was sinking ever-deeper into... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Richard K. Moule, Jr. , George W. Burruss , Megan M. Parry , Bryanna Fox |
Assessing the Direct and Indirect Effects of Legitimacy on Public Empowerment of Police: a Study of Public Support for Police Militarization in America |
53 Law and Society Review 77 (March, 2019) |
The process-based model dominates contemporary American research on police-community relations and perceptions of police. A sizable literature has examined the linkages between procedural justice, legitimacy, compliance with the law, and cooperation with police. Less examined is the relationship between legitimacy and public empowerment of police.... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Mitch Zamoff |
Assessing the Impact of Police Body Camera Evidence on the Litigation of Excessive Force Cases |
54 Georgia Law Review 1 (Fall, 2019) |
In the wake of several hotly debated and widely publicized shootings of civilians by police officers, calls for the increased use of body-worn cameras (bodycams) by law enforcement officers have intensified. As police departments across the country expand their use of this emergent technology, courts will increasingly be presented with video; Search Snippet: ...Georgia Law Review Fall, 2019 Article ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF POLICE BODY CAMERA EVIDENCE ON THE LITIGATION OF EXCESSIVE FORCE CASES... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jordan Blair Woods |
Autonomous Vehicles and Police De-escalation |
114 Northwestern University Law Review Online 74 (September 9, 2019) |
Several experts predict that autonomous vehicles will become mainstream in the next few decades. Although autonomous vehicles will have massive implications for law enforcement, the technology has received little to no attention in criminal procedure and policing scholarship. This Essay introduces a new vector into the nascent law and... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Taylor Emory |
Barring Access to the Truth: North Carolina's Limiting Approach to Police Body-camera Footage |
41 Campbell Law Review 483 (Spring, 2019) |
Police body-cameras are innovative, truth-detecting tools. When it comes to controversial citizen-law enforcement interactions, they can depict an accurate portrayal of the events. No speculation, no controversy--just the truth. And with the truth, the existing tension between law enforcement officials and the general populace can begin to ease; Search Snippet: ...BARRING ACCESS TO THE TRUTH: NORTH CAROLINA'S LIMITING APPROACH TO POLICE BODY-CAMERA FOOTAGE Taylor Emory [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by Campbell... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Peter Hyndman |
Body Cameras Won't Bring Justice: Why Pennsylvania's Chapter 67a Does Not Promise Police Accountability |
91 Temple Law Review 321 (Winter, 2019) |
On August 9, 2014, Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed, black eighteen-year-old. The killing sparked immediate and prolonged protests in Ferguson and elsewhere, with demonstrators taking to the streets to challenge what they viewed as yet another instance of police brutality against people of... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Tosha Childs |
Building Police-community Trust in Illinois: Will We Ever Get There? An Examination of the Illinois Police and Community Relations Act |
43 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 675 (Spring, 2019) |
The ongoing tension and tragic altercations between law enforcement and community members across the United States has resulted in unfortunate fatalities and an undeniable absence of trust. As a result, on December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama established the Task Force on 21st Century Policing by executive order and charged the task force... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Adam D. Fine, Kathleen E. Padilla , Julie Tapp , Arizona State University, Irvine, California |
Can Youths' Perceptions of the Police Be Improved? Results of a School-based Field Evaluation in Three Jurisdictions |
25 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 303 (November, 2019) |
The way police officers interact with individuals fundamentally impacts the public's perceptions of law enforcement. Such perceptions are, in turn, linked to a variety of key outcomes, including crime commission, crime reporting, and the willingness to be a witness. Considering that the way children perceive the police may set the tone for how they; Search Snippet: ...Policy, and Law November, 2019 CAN YOUTHS' PERCEPTIONS OF THE POLICE BE IMPROVED? RESULTS OF A SCHOOL-BASED FIELD EVALUATION IN... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Renata M. O'Donnell |
Challenging Racist Predictive Policing Algorithms under the Equal Protection Clause |
94 New York University Law Review 544 (June, 2019) |
Algorithms are capable of racism, just as humans are capable of racism. This is particularly true of an algorithm used in the context of the racially biased criminal justice system. Predictive policing algorithms are trained on data that is heavily infected with racism because that data is generated by human beings. Predictive policing algorithms... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Osagie K. Obasogie , Zachary Newman |
Constitutional Interpretation Without Judges: Police Violence, Excessive Force, and Remaking the Fourth Amendment |
105 Virginia Law Review 425 (April, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 425 II. Endogeneity, the Fourth Amendment, and the Problem of Police Accountability. 428 A. Reasonableness and the Fourth Amendment. 428 B. Legal Endogeneity and Constitutional Law. 430 C. A Lack of Accountability. 434 III. Procedural Justice and Police Violence. 437 A. Divergent Perceptions and Police Mistrust. 437 B. What Is... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Joshua Thompson , Erin Wilcox |
Contemporary Challenges to Race-based Student Assignment Polices and the Compelling Interests That Justify Them |
11 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 143 (2019) |
Introduction. 145 I. Brown and Remedying De Jure Segregation With All Deliberate Speed. 147 A. A Brief History of Desegregation Orders. 149 B. When Desegregation Orders End. 152 C. Zombie Desegregation Orders. 154 II. Challenging the Remedial Justification for Race-Based Student Assignment Plans. 155 A. When Does a School District's Remedial; Search Snippet: ...Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 2019 Article CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO RACE-BASED STUDENT ASSIGNMENT POLICES AND THE COMPELLING INTERESTS THAT JUSTIFY THEM Joshua Thompson [FNa1... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Tracey Maclin |
Cops and Cars: How the Automobile Drove Fourth Amendment Law |
99 Boston University Law Review 2317 (December, 2019) |
This Article discusses Professor Sarah A. Seo's new book, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom. I focus on Professor Seo's analyses of Carroll v. United States and Brinegar v. United States. Carroll is important because it was the Court's first car case. Moreover, understanding Carroll (and Brinegar, which solidified and; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Boston University Law Review December, 2019 Article COPS AND CARS: HOW THE AUTOMOBILE DROVE FOURTH AMENDMENT LAW Tracey... |
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| Sarah A. Seo |
Democratic Policing Before the Due Process Revolution |
128 Yale Law Journal 1246 (March, 2019) |
According to prevailing interpretations of the Warren Court's Due Process Revolution, the Supreme Court constitutionalized criminal procedure to constrain the discretion of individual officers. These narratives, however, fail to account for the Court's decisions during that revolutionary period that enabled discretionary policing. Instead of... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Dorothy E. Roberts |
Digitizing the Carceral State: Automating Inequality: How High-tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. By Virginia Eubanks. New York, N.y.: St. Martin's Press. 2018. Pp. 260. $26.99 |
132 Harvard Law Review 1695 (April, 2019) |
Many life-changing interactions between individuals and state agents in the United States today are determined by a computer-generated score. Government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels increasingly make automated decisions based on vast collections of digitized information about individuals and mathematical algorithms that both... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Kate Levine |
Discipline and Policing |
68 Duke Law Journal 839 (February, 2019) |
A prime focus of police-reform advocates is the transparency of police discipline. Indeed, transparency is one of, the most popular accountability solutions for a wide swath of policing problems. This Article examines the transparency cure as it applies to Police Disciplinary Records (PDRs). These records are part of an officer's personnel file... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Alisa Tiwari |
Disparate-impact Liability for Policing |
129 Yale Law Journal 252 (October, 2019) |
This Note justifies disparate-impact liability for police practices. It develops the first structured analysis of the Safe Streets Act's (SSA's) antidiscrimination power and argues that the SSA imposes disparate-impact liability on police departments. The analysis includes an examination of the statute's text, the historical meaning of... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Hayden Carlos |
Disqualifying Immunity: How Qualified Immunity Exacerbates Police Misconduct and Why Congress must Destroy it |
46 Southern University Law Review 283 (Spring, 2019) |
The United States is currently in the post-Ferguson era of the fight for civil rights--an era defined by calls for criminal justice reform, police accountability, and radical revolution of law enforcement. This era, much like its predecessors throughout American history, is perpetuated when police are not held accountable for violating... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Heather Zaykowski, Lena M. Campagna, Erin Cournoyer Allain |
Examining the Paradox of Crime Reporting: Are Disadvantaged Victims More Likely to Report to the Police? |
53 Law and Society Review 1305 (December, 2019) |
This study uses an intersectional approach to examine the paradox that disadvantaged victims often mobilize the police, despite their distrust and lack of confidence in the law. Data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (1994-2016) were analyzed using logistic regression to model the predicted probabilities of police notification by... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jonathan Simon |
Explicit Bias: Why Criminal Justice Reform Requires Us to Challenge Crime Control Strategies That Are Anything but Race Blind |
54 Tulsa Law Review 331 (Winter, 2019) |
Elizabeth Hinton, From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (Harvard University Press 2017). Pp.464. Paperback $18.95. Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court (Stanford University Press 2016). Pp. 272. Hardcover $16.95. These books rely upon... |
2019 |
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| Steven L. Nelson , Ray Orlando Williams |
From Slave Codes to Educational Racism: Urban Education Policy in the United States as the Dispossession, Containment, Dehumanization, and Disenfranchisement of Black Peoples |
19 Journal of Law in Society 82 (Spring, 2019) |
In 2016, Margalynne J. Armstrong considered the following question in the Santa Clara kaw Review: Are we nearing the end of impunity for taking Black lives? She framed her response to this question around issues of police brutality, and she related issues of police brutality to the consistent and persistent racial subjugation of Black peoples in... |
2019 |
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| Trevor George Gardner |
Immigrant Sanctuary as the "Old Normal": a Brief History of Police Federalism |
119 Columbia Law Review Rev. 1 (January, 2019) |
Three successive presidential administrations have opposed immigrant-sanctuary policy, at various intervals characterizing state and local government restrictions on police participation in federal immigration enforcement as reckless, aberrant, and unpatriotic. This Article finds these claims to be ahistorical in light of the long and singular... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Trevor George Gardner |
Immigrant Sanctuary as the "Old Normal": a Brief History of Police Federalism |
119 Columbia Law Review 1 (January, 2019) |
Three successive presidential administrations have opposed immigrant-sanctuary policy, at various intervals characterizing state and local government restrictions on police participation in federal immigration enforcement as reckless, aberrant, and unpatriotic. This Article finds these claims to be ahistorical in light of the long and singular; Search Snippet: ...IMMIGRANT SANCTUARY AS THE OLD NORMAL: A BRIEF HISTORY OF POLICE FEDERALISM Trevor George Gardner [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by the Directors... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Ryan Hartzell C. Balisacan |
Incorporating Police Provocation into the Fourth Amendment "Reasonableness" Calculus: a Proposed Post-mendez Agenda |
54 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 327 (Winter, 2019) |
When police officers provoke a violent encounter that leads to the shooting of a civilian, should they be held liable for damages? Intuitive notions of justice suggest that they should, but Fourth Amendment jurisprudence has yet to provide a clear answer. Circuits split on whether courts can consider officers' earlier provocations. Using a... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jennifer E. Laurin |
Justice in Wonderland a Review of Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing, by Issa Kohler-hausmann |
97 Texas Law Review Online 25 (2019) |
There is a place in the American criminal justice system . a place explored by few legal scholars and even fewer law students . a Wonderland where the order and logic of criminal adjudication as it is conventionally understood appears topsy-turvy or even absent. The place is called Misdemeanorland, and in her recent book by that name, Yale law... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Ann L. Schiavone |
K-9 Catch-22: the Impossible Dilemma of Using Police Dogs on Apprehension of Suspects |
80 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 613 (Spring, 2019) |
In the past several years, the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has seen two canine police dogs (K-9s) killed in the line of duty, Rocco in January 2014, and Aren in January of 2016. Both were killed by stab wounds while attempting to apprehend suspects. The man who killed Rocco received significant jail time for stabbing and killing the dog, while... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Vida B. Johnson |
Kkk in the Pd: White Supremacist Police and What to Do about it |
23 Lewis & Clark Law Review 205 (2019) |
There is an epidemic of white supremacists in police departments. Police officers have been identified as members of white supremacist groups in Florida, Alabama and Louisiana. There have been scandals in over 100 different police departments, in over forty different states, in which individual police officers have sent overtly racist emails,... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Angela Morris |
Law School Tackles Police Reform |
105-FEB ABA Journal 12 (January-February, 2019) |
IN 2016, professor Rosa Brooks was on a sabbatical from her position at Georgetown University Law Center to finish a book. After it was complete, Brooks began looking for a new project and decided to enroll in the police academy. As she progressed through tactical training to become a volunteer reserve police officer in Washington, D.C., Brooks was... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Bradley D. Celestin, John K. Kruschke , Indiana University |
Lay Evaluations of Police and Civilian Use of Force: Action Severity Scales |
43 Law and Human Behavior 290 (June, 2019) |
In modern societies, citizens cede the legitimate use of violence to law enforcement agents who act on their behalf. However, little is known about the extent to which lay evaluations of forceful actions align with or diverge from official use-of-force policies and heuristics that officers use to choose appropriate levels of responsive force.... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Anna Roberts |
Lead Us Not into Temptation: a Response to Barbara Fedders's "Opioid Policing" |
94 Indiana Law Journal Supplement 91 (2019) |
In Opioid Policing, Barbara Fedders contributes to the law review literature the first joint scholarly analysis of two drug policing innovations: Seattle's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program and the Angel Initiative, which originated in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Even while welcoming the innovation and inspiration of these... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Daanika Gordon , Emma Shakeshaft |
Linking Racial Classification, Racial Inequality, and Racial Formation: the Contributions of Pulled over |
44 Law and Social Inquiry 257 (February, 2019) |
Epp, Charles, Steven Maynard-Moody, and Donald Haider-Markel. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, by Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-Mood, and Donald Haider-Markel, is an important piece of law and society scholarship that... |
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| Bert-Jaap Koops , Bryce Clayton Newell , Ivan S̆korvánek |
Location Tracking by Police: the Regulation of 'Tireless and Absolute Surveillance' |
9 UC Irvine Law Review 635 (March, 2019) |
Location information reveals people's whereabouts, but can also tell much about their habits, preferences, and, ultimately, much of their private lives. Current surveillance technologies used in criminal investigation include many techniques to track someone's movements; not all are equally intrusive. This raises the following questions: how do; Search Snippet: ...UC Irvine Law Review March, 2019 Article LOCATION TRACKING BY POLICE: THE REGULATION OF TIRELESS AND ABSOLUTE SURVEILLANCE Bert-Jaap Koops... |
2019 |
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| Michael Vitiello |
Marijuana Legalization, Racial Disparity, and the Hope for Reform |
23 Lewis & Clark Law Review 789 (2019) |
The criminalization of marijuana is rooted in a deeply racist history and has devastated minority communities. Studies show that usage of the drug is consistent across racial groups, but arrests of minorities are nevertheless higher than arrests of white offenders. Indeed, those kinds of disparities have persuaded some voters and policy makers to... |
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| Barbara Fedders |
Opioid Policing |
94 Indiana Law Journal 389 (Spring, 2019) |
This Article identifies and explores a new, local law enforcement approach to alleged drug offenders. Initially limited to a few police departments, but now expanding rapidly across the country, this innovation takes one of two primary forms. The first is a diversion program through which officers refer alleged offenders to community-based social... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Higinio Guillermo Reyes Jr., Kate Alexandra Houston , Texas A&M International University |
Perceptions of Police Brutality: Does Audio Matter? |
25 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 315 (November, 2019) |
This research investigated whether the perceived level of force (categorized as justifiable force, moderate force, or excessive force) used by a law enforcement officer in effecting an arrest or detention changes depending on whether the audio track was present or removed from the arrest video. Participants were each shown 5 arrest videos with; Search Snippet: ...LAW Psychology, Public Policy, and Law November, 2019 PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY: DOES AUDIO MATTER? [FNa1] Higinio Guillermo Reyes Jr. Kate... |
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| Dillan McQueen |
Platforms and Police Departments: on the Risk of Contractual Liability for Social Media Surveillance of Political Activism |
50 University of Memphis Law Review 199 (Fall, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 200 II. Political Activists Lack Traditional Remedies Against Police Departments. 206 A. Harm to Political Activists. 207 B. Limits on Other Causes of Action and Contract as a Solution. 211 III. Political Activists Have a Cause of Action as Third-Party Beneficiaries. 213 A. The Third-Party Beneficiary Principle Is Well-Established; Search Snippet: ...University of Memphis Law Review Fall, 2019 Note PLATFORMS AND POLICE DEPARTMENTS: ON THE RISK OF CONTRACTUAL LIABILITY FOR SOCIAL MEDIA... |
2019 |
Yes |
| James Volpe |
Police and Community Relations: Will "To Serve and Protect" Be Words the Public Can Ever Trust? |
39 Northern Illinois University Law Review 288 (Spring, 2019) |
In today's society police officers are constantly being criticized as having too much power over the citizens they are sworn to serve and protect. Unlike before current technological advances, citizens can now see when a police officer uses force. In-squad video cameras, smart phones and police body cameras make it possible for violent encounters; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Northern Illinois University Law Review Spring, 2019 Article POLICE AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS: WILL TO SERVE AND PROTECT BE WORDS... |
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| Nirej Sekhon |
Police and the Limit of Law |
119 Columbia Law Review 1711 (October, 2019) |
For more than fifty years, the problems endemic to municipal policing in the United States--brutality, racial discrimination, corruption, and opacity--have remained remarkably constant. This has occurred notwithstanding the advent of modern constitutional criminal procedure and countless judicial opinions applying it to the police. The municipal... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Bridget M. Synan |
Police Body Camera Footage: It's Just Evidence |
57 Duquesne Law Review 351 (Summer, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 351 II. Policing and Camera Technology. 353 A. The Exercise of Discretion. 353 B. The Call for Body-Worn Cameras. 355 C. Lessons Learned from Dashboard Camera. 359 III. The Tension Between Privacy and Transparency. 365 A. Privacy Concerns. 365 B. Body-Worn Camera Legislation in Pennsylvania. 370 III. Body-Worn Camera Policy... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Stephen Rushin |
Police Disciplinary Appeals |
167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 545 (February, 2019) |
This Article argues that police disciplinary appeals serve as an underappreciated barrier to officer accountability and organizational reform. Scholars and experts generally agree that rigorous enforcement of internal regulations within a police department promotes constitutional policing by deterring future misconduct and removing unfit officers... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Rachel Moran |
Police Privacy |
10 UC Irvine Law Review 153 (October, 2019) |
Introduction. 154 I. Disputes Regarding Disclosure of Police Misconduct Records. 157 II. Privacy: What It Is and What It Protects. 165 A. History and expansion of the right to privacy. 165 B. Development of a right to informational privacy. 168 C. Limitations on the right to informational privacy. 169 III. Police Officers and Privacy Rights. 174 A.... |
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| Justin K. Reichman |
Police Reform as Preventative Medicine: Reframing Police-community Violence as a Public Health Law Issue |
22 Quinnipiac Health Law Journal 289 (2019) |
The author considers police-community violence a public health issue and evaluates the issue through the lens of public health law. Police-community violence is larger than the criminal justice system, and affects the health of the community as a whole. This concept is well documented in public health circles, but is surprisingly absent from... |
2019 |
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| Barbara E. Armacost |
Police Shootings: Is Accountability the Enemy of Prevention? |
80 Ohio State Law Journal 907 (2019) |
Police officers shoot an unarmed man or woman. The victim's family and community cry out for someone to be held accountable. In minority communities, where a disproportionate number of officer-involved shootings occur, residents suspect that racial animus and stereotypical assumptions about dangerous black men played a part. Citizens seek; Search Snippet: ...OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL Ohio State Law Journal 2019 Article POLICE SHOOTINGS: IS ACCOUNTABILITY THE ENEMY OF PREVENTION? Barbara E. Armacost... |
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| Daniel Rietiker |
Police Violence and How to Fight It, in Particular When Racially Motivated: the Example of the European Court of Human Rights |
52 Suffolk University Law Review 417 (2019) |
Police violence is a widespread, global issue. It concerns the United States as much as it does Europe and other parts of the world. According to an Amnesty International report published in 2015, hundreds of men and women are killed by police each year across the United States. Even though some cases-- like the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in... |
2019 |
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