| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Dhruti J. Patel |
Policing Corporate Conduct Toward Minority Communities: an Insurance Law Perspective on the Use of Race in Calculating Tort Damages |
53 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 227 (Fall, 2019) |
Courts commonly use U.S. Department of Labor actuarial tables, which explicitly take into account the race of the tort victim, to determine average national wage, work-life expectancy, and life expectancy. This practice has led to wide discrepancies between average damage awards for minority plaintiffs compared to white plaintiffs even if both... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Wayne A. Logan |
Policing Police Access to Criminal Justice Data |
104 Iowa Law Review 619 (January, 2019) |
Today, it is widely recognized that we live in an information-based society. This is certainly true of police on street patrol, who more than ever before rely on, and enjoy ready access to, information when doing their work. Information in aggregated form, for instance, is used to create algorithms for hot spot policing that targets... |
2019 |
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| Deborah Ramirez , Marcus Wraight , Lauren Kilmister , Carly Perkins |
Policing the Police: Could Mandatory Professional Liability Insurance for Officers Provide a New Accountability Model? |
45 American Journal of Criminal Law 407 (Spring, 2019) |
When Eric Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, asked a Congressional Black Caucus panel on policing why the officer who killed her son with an illegal chokehold was still employed, the question hung in the air. Article coauthor Professor Deborah Ramirez sat amongst the assembled experts who struggled to answer that day. This paper was born in that silence... |
2019 |
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| Jordan Blair Woods |
Policing, Danger Narratives, and Routine Traffic Stops |
117 Michigan Law Review 635 (February, 2019) |
This Article presents findings from the largest and most comprehensive study to date on violence against the police during traffic stops. Every year, police officers conduct tens of millions of traffic stops. Many of these stops are entirely unremarkable--so much so that they may be fairly described as routine. Nonetheless, the narrative that... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Glenn D. Walters, Kutztown University |
Predicting Early Adolescent Offending with Criminal Victimization and Delinquent Peer Associations by Way of Negative Attitudes Toward the Police |
43 Law and Human Behavior 517 (December, 2019) |
This study was designed to investigate the effect of victimization experiences and peer influence on delinquency via one's attitude toward the police. It was hypothesized that negative attitudes toward the police would mediate the prospective relationships between victimization and offending and between peer delinquency and offending. Participants; Search Snippet: ...DELINQUENT PEER ASSOCIATIONS BY WAY OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD THE POLICE [FNa1] Glenn D. Walters Kutztown University Copyright © 2019 by American... |
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Yes |
| Ekow N. Yankah |
Pretext and Justification: Republicanism, Policing, and Race |
40 Cardozo Law Review 1543 (April, 2019) |
On April 4, 2015, Police Officer Michael Slager gunned down Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina with a cool that resembled target practice. Scott's name joined a heartbreaking list of men of color killed by unjustified police violence. The video of the incident also broadcast to the world the spectacular violence always lurking beneath... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Thomas R. Smith, Jr. |
Protecting Police Applicants from Disability Discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act |
36 Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal 187 (Spring, 2019) |
L1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 189 II. Background. 193 A. Police Department Hiring Policies. 193 1. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. 198 2. Explicit and Implicit Bias. 200 3. Focus on the Positive. 202 B. Neurological, Cognitive and Psychological Disabilities. 202 C. The Americans with Disabilities Act. 204 III. Analysis. 208 A.... |
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Yes |
| Julia Simon-Kerr |
Public Trust and Police Deception |
11 Northeastern University Law Review 625 (Summer, 2019) |
INTRODUCTION. 627 I. DECEPTIVE INTERROGATION IN PRACTICE. 634 II. LEGAL LEGITIMACY. 643 III. PRAGMATIC LEGITIMACY. 650 A. Efficacy as Confessions. 650 B. Efficacy as Accurate Outcomes. 653 IV. PERCEIVED LEGITIMACY. 663 A. Trust and Police Legitimacy. 666 B. Deceptive Interrogation and Trust. 670 V. MORAL LEGITIMACY. 677 A. A Philosophical Taxonomy; Search Snippet: ...Northeastern University Law Review Summer, 2019 Article PUBLIC TRUST AND POLICE DECEPTION Julia Simon-Kerr [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by Northeastern University... |
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Race & Criminal Justice Ohio Issue 1 and Beyond |
2019 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1282361 (February 1, 2019) |
Mass incarceration is a crisis in America. Nationwide, 2.2 million Americans are in prison or jail. Nearly five million are on community control. Many of these Americans are locked away or punished for low-level, non-violent drug offenses. Our nation's history of racism and discrimination is deeply ingrained in our criminal justice system. Today,... |
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Race & Criminal Justice Ohio Issue 1 and Beyond |
2019 Federal Sentencing Reporter 2453384 (February 1, 2019) |
Mass incarceration is a crisis in America. Nationwide, 2.2 million Americans are in prison or jail. Nearly five million are on community control. Many of these Americans are locked away or punished for low-level, non-violent drug offenses. Our nation's history of racism and discrimination is deeply ingrained in our criminal justice system. Today,... |
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| Yazmine C'Bona Levonna Nichols |
Race Has Everything to Do with It: a Remedy for Frivolous Race-based Police Calls |
47 Fordham Urban Law Journal 153 (December, 2019) |
Introduction. 154 I. Anti-Blackness and White Supremacy as Context. 159 A. Definitions. 159 B. Anecdotes: Exclusion Resulting in Black Geographical Confinement. 160 II. The Legal Construction of White Space as Protected Space. 162 A. The Slave Codes and the Black Codes. 162 B. Jim and Jane Crow. 163 C. Post-Jim and Jane Crow. 165 III. The... |
2019 |
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| Xia Wang , Justin Ready , Garth Davies |
Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence: Examining Perceptions of Criminal Injustice among Los Angeles Residents |
53 Law and Society Review 706 (September, 2019) |
Although the conventional wisdom holds that increasing the number of minority officers will enhance residents' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system, further systematic investigation of this hypothesis may be needed. Building on the group-position thesis, the representative bureaucracy theory, and prior research, this study... |
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| Alfredo Parrish |
Racial Disparity in Iowa's Criminal Justice System 150 Years after Clark |
67 Drake Law Review 251 (2019) |
Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Strange Fruit was sung by Billie Holiday 71 years after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in Clark v. Board of School Directors that a young African American could attend an all-white... |
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| Aziz Z. Huq |
Racial Equity in Algorithmic Criminal Justice |
68 Duke Law Journal 1043 (March, 2019) |
Algorithmic tools for predicting violence and criminality are increasingly deployed in policing, bail, and sentencing. Scholarly attention to date has focused on these tools' procedural due process implications. This Article considers their interaction with the enduring racial dimensions of the criminal justice system. I consider two alternative... |
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| Jodi Rios, PhD |
Racial States of Municipal Governance: Policing Bodies and Space for Revenue in North St. Louis County, Mo |
37 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 235 (Summer, 2019) |
In the suburbs of North St. Louis County, Black residents are disciplined and policed for revenue to fund small struggling cities. To put it in the way many residents do, municipalities view poor Black residents as ATMs, to which they return time and again through multiple forms of predatory policing and juridical practices. As part of this... |
2019 |
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| David Trausch |
Real Transparency: Increased Public Access to Police Body-camera Footage in Texas |
60 South Texas Law Review 373 (2019) |
I. Introduction 373 II. History and Importance of Public Access to Government Records 375 III. Intended Benefits and Purposes of Using Police Body Cameras 377 IV. Texas's Laws Regulating Public Access to Police Body-Camera Footage 380 V. The Public Should Have More Access to Police Body-Camera Footage in Texas 383 A. The PIA Should Regulate Public... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Taurus Myhand |
Redefining the Reasonable Person in Police Encounters: the Impact of the Mainstream News Media's Portrayal of Modern Police Conduct |
96 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 267 (Winter, 2019) |
Current trends in the news media's coverage of police conduct has increasingly led to the display of more graphic and more disturbing images of violent police encounters with individuals. The depictions of how law enforcement officers engage citizens are troubling, yet the inundation of headlines in the mainstream media lends to the false notion... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Brittain McClurg |
Reducing the Impact of Racial Discrimination in Policing |
2019 Journal of Dispute Resolution 201 (Fall, 2019) |
It is difficult to ascertain the actual number of officer-related shootings and use-of-force cases. Newsweek Magazine reported James Comey, then Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acknowledged as much when he stated, It is unacceptable that The Washington Post and The Guardian newspaper are becoming the lead source of information... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jaime Amparo Alves, CEAF/Universidad Icesi and UC Santa Barbara |
Refusing to Be Governed: Urban Policing, Gang Violence, and the Politics of Evilness in an Afro-colombian Shantytown |
42 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 21 (May, 2019) |
What is the role of policing within urban contexts marked by economic dispossession, crime, and gang violence? This article grapples with this question by examining both policing practices and the strategies of resistance embraced by residents of El Guayacán, a predominantly black neighborhood in the outskirts of Call, Colombia. I argue that... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Kelsie Plesac |
Remedying Cursory Police Investigation of Sexual Assault and the False Reporting Charges That Result |
53 Valparaiso University Law Review 509 (Winter, 2019) |
On July 16, 2011, Lara McLeod attended a Lil Wayne concert with her sister's boyfriend, Joaquin. When the two arrived at Joaquin's home after the concert, Joaquin gave Lara a choice: have sex with him, right then and there, or accompany him to a party where she would be gang-raped by several men. Earlier that day Joaquin had showed Lara his; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Valparaiso University Law Review Winter, 2019 Note REMEDYING CURSORY POLICE INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND THE FALSE REPORTING CHARGES THAT... |
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| Maria Ponomarenko |
Rethinking Police Rulemaking |
114 Northwestern University Law Review Rev. 1 (2019) |
For more than sixty years, prominent policing scholars have argued that the way to address the many problems of policing is to treat police departments like all other agencies of government--and to require that they set policy through something like notice-and-comment rulemaking. This paper argues that despite its intuitive appeal,... |
2019 |
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| Maria Ponomarenko |
Rethinking Police Rulemaking |
114 Northwestern University Law Review 1 (2019) |
For more than sixty years, prominent policing scholars have argued that the way to address the many problems of policing is to treat police departments like all other agencies of government--and to require that they set policy through something like notice-and-comment rulemaking. This paper argues that despite its intuitive appeal,; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Northwestern University Law Review 2019 Article RETHINKING POLICE RULEMAKING Maria Ponomarenko [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by Maria Ponomarenko ... |
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Yes |
| Jonathan Manes |
Secrecy & Evasion in Police Surveillance Technology |
34 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 503 (2019) |
New technologies are transforming the capabilities of law enforcement. Police agencies now have devices to track our cellphones and software to hack our networks. They have tools to sift the vast quantities of digital silt we leave behind on the Internet. They can deploy big data algorithms meant to predict where crimes will occur and who will... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Megan E. Reed |
Senate Bill 4: Police Officers' Opinions on Texas's Ban of Sanctuary Cities |
36 Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review 67 (2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 68 I. Background on SB4. 69 A. History of Sanctuary Cities in the United States. 69 B. Events Leading to SB4's Enactment. 74 C. SB4's Provisions. 77 1. ICE-Detainer Provision. 78 2. Enforcement-Cooperation Provision. 78 D. Similar State Legislation. 79 II. In Practice, What Will SB4 Change?. 82 A. Racial... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Harvey Gee |
Stingray Cell-site Simulator Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment in the Twenty-first Century: a Review of the Fourth Amendment in an Age of Surveillance, and Unwarranted Barry Friedman, Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission, New York: Farrar, Strauss |
93 Saint John's Law Review 325 (2019) |
The police can secretly track your every physical movement, listen to your private conversations, and collect data from your cell phone--all without first getting a warrant based on probable cause, signed off by a judge. WTF?! you text. Indeed, this practice by law enforcement using portable Stingray cell-site simulators as digital surveillance... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Sigourney Norman |
Strengthening Section 14141: Using Pattern or Practice Investigations to End Violence Between Police and Communities |
33 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 263 (Winter 2019) |
Imagine you are on your way home from work and driving your usual route. You hear police sirens getting louder and louder. You realize you are the subject of their chase, but you cannot imagine why. You slow down and pull over, not wanting to cause confrontation. The officer beats on your car door. You roll down your window and ask why you have; Search Snippet: ...14141: USING PATTERN OR PRACTICE INVESTIGATIONS TO END VIOLENCE BETWEEN POLICE AND COMMUNITIES Why Is It That Officers Are Not Responsible... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Elias R. Feldman |
Strict Tort Liability for Police Misconduct |
53 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 89 (Fall, 2019) |
The disproportionate rates at which police use wrongful deadly force against racial minorities in the United States is a matter of significant national concern. This Note contributes to the ongoing conversation by proposing a new legal reform, which calls for the state law imposition of strict tort liability on municipal governments for police... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Tracey L. Meares |
Synthesizing Narratives of Policing and Making a Case for Policing as a Public Good |
63 Saint Louis University Law Journal 553 (Summer, 2019) |
Since 2014, in what I will call the New Reform Era, many discussions of policing are dominated by two conceptions often juxtaposed against one another. Probably the dominant conception of policing offered from police officers and agencies is that it ought to be effective. By effective, they mean that policing's primary goal should be to reduce... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Kyle M. Wood |
Taking Shelter under the Fourth Amendment: the Constitutionality of Policing Methods at State-sponsored Natural Disaster Shelters |
60 William and Mary Law Review 1071 (February, 2019) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1072 I. The Fourth Amendment's Proscription Against Unreasonable Seizures. 1076 A. What Is a Seizure?. 1077 B. What Is an Unreasonable Seizure?. 1078 C. Checkpoints as Constitutional (or Unconstitutional) Seizures. 1079 II. The Constitutionality of Warrant Checkpoints at Natural Disaster Shelters. 1082 A; Search Snippet: ...Note TAKING SHELTER UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF POLICING METHODS AT STATE-SPONSORED NATURAL DISASTER SHELTERS Kyle M. Wood... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Michael Sierra-Arévalo |
Technological Innovation and Police Officers' Understanding and Use of Force |
53 Law and Society Review 420 (June, 2019) |
Today, the TASER is a ubiquitous less-than-lethal force technology lauded for its ability to curb police officers' use of excessive and lethal force. Although less injurious than other weapons, concerns exist that the TASER can still be misused by police officers. This article uses ethnographic observations and unstructured interviews across three; Search Snippet: ...Law and Society Review June, 2019 Article TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND POLICE OFFICERS' UNDERSTANDING AND USE OF FORCE Michael Sierra-Arévalo [FNa1... |
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| Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D. |
The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice |
15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Liberties 1 (February, 2019) |
Introduction. 1 I. The Narrative of Implicit Bias. 3 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 4 B. Implicit Bias is Everyone's Problem. 7 C. Implicit Bias Marginalizes Racism. 8 D. Implicit Bias Consigns Racism to the Dustbin of History. 9 II. A Social Inflection Point?. 12 III. A Legal Inflection Point. 15 A. Revisiting and Revising Jody Armour's Reasonable... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D. |
The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice |
15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (February, 2019) |
Introduction. 1 I. The Narrative of Implicit Bias. 3 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 4 B. Implicit Bias is Everyone's Problem. 7 C. Implicit Bias Marginalizes Racism. 8 D. Implicit Bias Consigns Racism to the Dustbin of History. 9 II. A Social Inflection Point?. 12 III. A Legal Inflection Point. 15 A. Revisiting and Revising Jody Armour's Reasonable; Search Snippet: ...Civil Rights & Civil Liberties February, 2019 Article THE 911 COVENANT: POLICING BLACK BODIES IN WHITE SPACES AND THE LIMITS OF IMPLICIT BIAS AS A TOOL OF RACIAL JUSTICE Jonathan Kahn , J.D., Ph.D. [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by the... |
2019 |
Yes |
| David Thacher |
The Aspiration of Scientific Policing |
44 Law and Social Inquiry 273 (February, 2019) |
Weisburd, David, and Malay Majmundar, eds. Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime and Communities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2018. Over the past three decades, policing scholars have increasingly emphasized research that investigates the impact of well-defined policing strategies on crime, trust, and other community outcomes. The... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth E. Joh |
The Consequences of Automating and Deskilling the Police |
67 UCLA Law Review Discourse 134 (2019) |
Discussions of automation in the workplace typically omit policing. This is a mistake. The increasing combination of artificial intelligence and robotics will provide us with social benefits, but it will also create new problems as automation replaces human labor. Mass unemployment may be one consequence. Another is deskilling, the loss of the... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Osagie K. Obasogie , Zachary Newman |
The Endogenous Fourth Amendment: an Empirical Assessment of How Police Understandings of Excessive Force Become Constitutional Law |
104 Cornell Law Review 1281 (July, 2019) |
If the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect citizens from law enforcement abusing its powers, why are so many unarmed Americans killed? Traditional understandings of the Fourth Amendment suggest that it has an exogenous effect on police use of force, i.e., that the Fourth Amendment provides the ground rules for how and when law enforcement can... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Rick Trinkner, Erin M. Kerrison, Phillip Atiba Goff, Arizona State University, University of California, Berkeley, John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
The Force of Fear: Police Stereotype Threat, Self-legitimacy, and Support for Excessive Force |
43 Law and Human Behavior 421 (October, 2019) |
Researchers have linked police officers' concerns with appearing racist--a kind of stereotype threat--to racial disparities in the use of force. This study presents the first empirical test of the hypothesized psychological mechanism linking stereotype threat to police support for violence. We hypothesized that stereotype threat undermines... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Katherine A. Heil |
The Fuzz(y) Lines of Consent: Police Sexual Misconduct with Detainees |
70 South Carolina Law Review 941 (Summer, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 942 II. Background. 945 A. Sexual Misconduct by Staff in Correctional Facilities. 945 B. Consent in the Context of Correctional Facilities. 948 III. The Presence of The Law Enforcement Consent Loophole. 951 A. Consent in Police Custody Compared to Consent in Correctional Facilities. 951 B. The Consent Loophole Creates Significant... |
2019 |
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| Alexandra Natapoff |
The High Stakes of Low-level Criminal Justice: Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing by Issa Kohler-hausmann Princeton University Press, 2018 |
128 Yale Law Journal 1648 (April, 2019) |
The low-level misdemeanor process is a powerful socio-legal institution that both regulates and generates inequality. At the same time, misdemeanor legal processing often ignores many foundational criminal justice values such as due process, evidence, and even individual guilt. These features are linked: the erosion of the rule of law is one of the... |
2019 |
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| Drew Ruzanski |
The Open Public Records Act: the People's Bastion Against Police Misconduct in New Jersey |
16 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 83 (Spring, 2019) |
In the United States of America, police brutality and overreach have been and continue to be insidious problems. Protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, after the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager at the hands of a Ferguson police officer. A subsequent United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigation into the... |
2019 |
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| Emani Walks |
The Paradox of Policing as Protection: a Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Using Safe Injection Sites as a Guide |
26 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 157 (Spring, 2019) |
N.H.I. No humans involved. That was the acronym Los Angeles police officers reportedly used in the files for murders of drug addicts and sex workers in the mid-1980s. The lack of police response to these killings might be the reason why one of L.A.'s most notorious serial killers walked free for almost thirty years. Lonnie Franklin Jr., also known... |
2019 |
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| Caitlin Cavanagh , Elizabeth Cauffman , Michigan State University, University of California, Irvine |
The Role of Rearrests in Juvenile Offenders' and Their Mothers' Attitudes Toward Police |
43 Law and Human Behavior 220 (June, 2019) |
Both personal experience and parental attitudes shape youths' attitudes toward the justice system. The present study tested the influence of (a) youth rearrests and (b) parents' attitudes toward police on trajectories of youthful offenders' attitudes toward police over 3 years. Among a sample of 317 first-time male juvenile offenders and their; Search Snippet: ...OF REARRESTS IN JUVENILE OFFENDERS' AND THEIR MOTHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD POLICE [FNd1] Caitlin Cavanagh [FNa1] Michigan State University Elizabeth Cauffman [FNa1... |
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| Suzanne Barth |
The Terry Dilemma: a Game Theoretic Analysis of Qualified Immunity for Police Officers |
28 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 87 (Winter, 2019) |
I. Introduction. 87 II. Legal Background. 88 A. The Birth of the Terry Stop. 88 B. The Civil Action for Damages. 90 C. Qualified Immunity. 91 D. Thomas v. Dillard. 96 III. Economic Background. 99 IV. Model 1: The Terry Dilemma. 101 A. The Suspect's Considerations: Criminal Liability, Physical Safety, and the Fourth Amendment. 102 B. The Police... |
2019 |
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| Flint Taylor |
The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago |
13 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter 2019) |
The Center for Public Interest Law and National Lawyers Guild are pleased to welcome Flint Taylor, to discuss his book, The Torture Machine. Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago where they have been dedicated to litigating civil rights issues, government misconduct, and police violence cases for over 50 years. He; Search Snippet: ...Social Justice Winter 2019 December 2019 Discussion THE TORTURE MACHINE: RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO Flint Taylor Copyright © 2019 by DePaul University... |
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| Ayesha Bell Hardaway |
Time Is Not on Our Side: Why Specious Claims of Collective Bargaining Rights Should Not Be Allowed to Delay Police Reform Efforts |
15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 137 (June, 2019) |
Many view the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 as the best chance for police departments to make meaningful and lasting improvements. That legislation provides the federal government with the authority to investigate and sue local law enforcement agencies for engaging in a pattern or practice of policing that violates the... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Meghan Racklin |
Title Ix and Criminal Law on Campus: Against Mandatory Police Involvement in Campus Sexual Assault Cases |
94 New York University Law Review 982 (October, 2019) |
This Note argues that policy proposals mandating law enforcement involvement in campus sexual assault cases are harmful to survivors of sexual assault and are inconsistent with Title IX. Title IX's gender-equality goals require schools to address sexual assault as a civil rights issue, with a focus on its impact on survivors' continued access to... |
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| Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann, Alex Tabarrok |
To Serve and Collect: the Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement |
48 Journal of Legal Studies 189 (January, 2019) |
We exploit local deficits and state-level differences in police revenue retention from civil asset forfeitures to estimate how incentives to raise revenue influence policing. In a national sample, we find that local fine and forfeiture revenue increases faster with drug arrests than arrests for violent crimes. Revenues also increase faster with... |
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| Jeffrey S. Adler |
'To Stay the Murderer's Hand and the Rapist's Passions, and for the Safety and Security of Civil Society': the Emergence of Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment in Jim Crow New Orleans |
59 American Journal of Legal History 297 (September, 2019) |
This essay examines capital punishment in New Orleans between 1920 and 1945. Building on a quantitative analysis of case-level data culled from police, court, and prison records, it explores the emergence of racial disparities in death-penalty sentencing and charts the increasing use of capital punishment as a mechanism of racial control. The paper... |
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| Whitney Benns |
Unholy Union: St. Louis Prosecutors and Police Unionize to Maintain Racist State Power |
35 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 39 (Spring, 2019) |
In late December 2018, St. Louis County prosecutors voted to unionize and join the St. Louis Police Officer Association (SLPOA), the infamous St. Louis City police union that represents many of the city's white police officers. This vote came on the heels of former St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch--whose almost three-decade... |
2019 |
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| Abby Riffee |
Victim-offender Mediation: an Alternative Accountability Method in Police Brutality Cases |
34 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 777 (2019) |
I. Introduction II. High-Profile Case Studies: Police Shootings of Unarmed Black Men A. Michael Brown B. Freddie Gray C. Sylville Smith D. Anthony Lamar Smith III. Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Mediation: An Overview A. History and Evolution B. Restorative Justice Principles 1. Victim-Offender Mediation Programs 2. Does Victim-Offender; Search Snippet: ...2019 Note VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY METHOD IN POLICE BRUTALITY CASES Abby Riffee Copyright © 2019 by the Ohio State... |
2019 |
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| Michelle Burrell |
What Can the Child Welfare System Learn in the Wake of the Floyd Decision?: a Comparison of Stop-and-frisk Policing and Child Welfare Investigations |
22 CUNY Law Review 124 (Winter, 2019) |
Introduction. 125 I. The History of Stop-and-Frisk in New York. 128 II. Parallels Between Use of Stop-and-Frisk and CPS Investigations. 130 A. Low Burden of Proof. 130 B. Disproportionate Effects on People of Color in Low Income Communities. 133 C. The Impact on Community. 134 D. Lack of Recourse for Rogue Police Officers and Rogue Caseworkers. 135... |
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