| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Anthony A. Braga, William H. Sousa, James R. Coldren, Jr., Denise Rodriguez |
The Effects of Body-worn Cameras on Police Activity and Police-citizen Encounters: a Randomized Controlled Trial |
108 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 511 (Summer, 2018) |
Many have suggested that placing body-worn cameras (BWCs) on police officers improves the civility of police-citizen encounters and enhances citizen perceptions of police transparency and legitimacy. In response, many police departments have adopted this technology to address public concerns over the quality of policing in their communities. The... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Christi Metcalfe , Justin T. Pickett |
The Extent and Correlates of Public Support for Deterrence Reforms and Hot Spots Policing |
52 Law and Society Review 471 (June, 2018) |
As one approach to prison downsizing and criminal justice reform, scholars recommend altering the nature of policing by reallocating resources toward policing and increasing sentinel patrols and hot spots interventions. Public attitudes toward these reforms are unknown. In the current police crisis, shifting policies in ways disfavored by the... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Molly “Delaney” Nevius |
The First Pride Was a Riot: How Queer Activism Has Partnered with Police to Hurt the Community's Most Vulnerable |
29 Hastings Women's Law Journal 125 (Winter, 2018) |
Each June, thousands of queer San Francisco residents celebrate queer power, community, and visibility. The Pride Parade, which began as a Gay Freedom Day Parade in 1970 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, has expanded into a weekend of celebrations. Today, the Dyke March is twenty-three years running, the Trans March; Search Snippet: ...PRIDE WAS A RIOT: HOW QUEER ACTIVISM HAS PARTNERED WITH POLICE TO HURT THE COMMUNITY'S MOST VULNERABLE Molly Delaney Nevius [FNa1... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Osagie K. Obasogie, Zachary Newman |
The Futile Fourth Amendment: Understanding Police Excessive Force Doctrine Through an Empirical Assessment of Graham V. Connor |
112 Northwestern University Law Review 1465 (2018) |
Graham v. Connor established the modern constitutional landscape for police excessive force claims. The Supreme Court not only refined an objective reasonableness test to describe the constitutional standard, but also held that the Fourth Amendment is the sole avenue for courts to adjudicate claims that police violated a person's... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Sherri Lee Keene |
The Influence of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Stops |
35 No. 3 GPSolo 70 (May/June, 2018) |
In the criminal courtroom, race can often feel like the elephant in the room. Yet, for a criminal defense attorney, the inability to discuss how race may have impacted a defendant's case can result in missed opportunities to advocate effectively on behalf of the client. Discussions of race can be limited in the courtroom for a number of reasons,... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Sherri Lee Keene |
The Influence of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Stops |
35 No. 3 GPSolo 70 (May/June, 2018) |
In the criminal courtroom, race can often feel like the elephant in the room. Yet, for a criminal defense attorney, the inability to discuss how race may have impacted a defendant's case can result in missed opportunities to advocate effectively on behalf of the client. Discussions of race can be limited in the courtroom for a number of reasons,; Search Snippet: ...Best of ABA Section Criminal Justice THE INFLUENCE OF IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS IN POLICE STOPS Sherri Lee Keene [FNa1] Copyright © 2018 by American Bar... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Michael D. White , Henry F. Fradella |
The Intersection of Law, Policy, and Police Body-worn Cameras: an Exploration of Critical Issues |
96 North Carolina Law Review 1579 (June, 2018) |
Police body-worn cameras (BWCs) have diffused rapidly among U.S. law enforcement, in part because of early studies which suggested that the technology could produce important outcomes for police and their communities. The potential for BWCs to produce positive outcomes is affected by a wide range of issues tied to program planning and... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Andrew Guthrie Ferguson |
The Legal Risks of Big Data Policing |
33-SUM Criminal Justice 4 (Summer, 2018) |
The future of law enforcement is being shaped by new technologies. Today, on the streets of major cities, algorithms forecast areas of predicted crime, risk models create lists of possible suspects, and social network analysis targets criminal groups for increased surveillance. In practical effect, technology is changing where police patrol, who; Search Snippet: ...Justice Summer, 2018 Feature THE LEGAL RISKS OF BIG DATA POLICING Andrew Guthrie Ferguson [FNa1] Copyright © 2018 by American Bar Association... |
2018 |
Yes |
| P. Jeffrey Brantingham |
The Logic of Data Bias and its Impact on Place-based Predictive Policing |
15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 473 (Spring, 2018) |
Predictive policing refers to a three-part process: (1) data of one or more type are ingested; (2) algorithmic methods use ingested data to forecast the occurrence of crime in some domain of interest; and (3) police use forecasts to inform strategic and tactical decisions in the field. A primary goal of predictive policing is to reduce uncertainty... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Clemency Wang |
The Police Are Innocent as Long as They Honestly Believe: the Human Rights Problems with English Self-defense Law |
49 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 373 (Spring, 2018) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 374 I. Background. 376 A. Homicide in England and Wales. 376 B. Self-Defense: A General Defense to Homicide. 378 C. The European Convention on Human Rights and the European Union. 380 1. Article 2 of the European Convention. 381 2. Human Rights Act. 383 3. European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights. 384 II.... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Sharon R. Fairley |
The Police Encounter with a Fleeing Motorist: Dilemma or Debacle? |
52 U.C. Davis Law Review Online 155 (November, 2018) |
Despite most law enforcement experts agreeing that shooting at a moving vehicle is not an effective way to stop a fleeing motorist, in recent years hundreds of people were injured or killed by police officers who did just that. This Article concludes that Supreme Court jurisprudence related to these shooting incidents is at odds with current law; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW ONLINE U.C. Davis Law Review Online November, 2018 THE POLICE ENCOUNTER WITH A FLEEING MOTORIST: DILEMMA OR DEBACLE? Sharon R... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Rick Jones , Neighborhood Defender, Service of Harlem, New York, NY, 212-876-5500, Website www.ndsny.org, Email rjones@ndsny.org |
The Police Shell Game: Shedding Light on the Hiding of Bad Cops |
42-JUN Champion 5 (June, 2018) |
In my August 2017 column for The Champion, I briefly touched upon the tragic case of Tamir Rice. Twelve-year-old Tamir was shot and killed in Cleveland in 2014. He had been playing with a pellet gun in a park when, within two seconds of arriving on the scene, Officer Timothy Loehmann opened fire. While I was writing at the time about systemic; Search Snippet: ...4179592 CHAMPION Champion June, 2018 Column From the President THE POLICE SHELL GAME: SHEDDING LIGHT ON THE HIDING OF BAD COPS Rick Jones [FNa1] Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem New York... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Valerie Schneider |
The Prison to Homelessness Pipeline: Criminal Record Checks, Race, and Disparate Impact |
93 Indiana Law Journal 421 (Spring, 2018) |
Study after study has shown that securing housing upon release from prison is critical to reducing the likelihood of recidivism, yet those with criminal records--a population that disproportionately consists of racial minorities--are routinely denied access to housing, even if their offense was minor and was shown to have no bearing on whether the... |
2018 |
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| Kelsey Schwarzrock |
The Process of Peace: Using Community Dispute Resolution to Improve the Relationship Between Police and Community in Minnesota |
39 Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice 87 (Spring, 2018) |
Introduction. 88 I. Background. 89 A. A Brief History of CDR. 90 B. How is CDR Currently Used?. 92 1. The Current Landscape of ADR in Minnesota. 92 a. Collaborative Problem-Solving. 93 b. Restorative Practices. 94 c. Community Mediation. 96 2. Minnesota's Struggle with Police Shootings. 97 3. National Initiative for Building Community Trust and... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Kristin Henning |
The Reasonable Black Child: Race, Adolescence, and the Fourth Amendment |
67 American University Law Review 1513 (June, 2018) |
Police contact with black youth is ubiquitous. Under the guise of reasonable articulable suspicion, police stop black youth on the vaguest of lookout descriptions--black boys running, two black males in jeans, one in a gray hoodie, black male in athletic gear, and black male with a bicycle. Young black males are treated as if they are out... |
2018 |
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| Cedric Merlin Powell |
The Structural Dimensions of Race: Lock Ups, Systemic Chokeholds, and Binary Disruptions |
57 University of Louisville Law Review Rev. 7 (2018) |
Disrupting traditional conceptions of structural inequality, state decision-making power, and the presumption of Black criminality, this Essay explores the doctrinal and policy implications of James Forman Jr.'s Pulitzer Prize winning book, Locking Up Our Own, and Paul Butler's evocative and transformative book, Chokehold. While both books grapple... |
2018 |
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| Samantha Smyth , Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Class of 2018, Cleveland, OH |
The Use of Narcan in Criminal Investigations by Law Enforcement and the Consequences of Police Involvement in the Opioid Epidemic |
30 No. 6 Health Lawyer 31 (August, 2018) |
In 2016, the world was stunned with the news that the singer Prince experienced multiple opioid overdoses in the last few days of his life. The first publicized overdose he experienced occurred on a flight home from a performance a few days before his death. The singer's plane had to make an emergency landing to provide him with Narcan to save his... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Samantha Smyth , Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Class of 2018, Cleveland, OH |
The Use of Narcan in Criminal Investigations by Law Enforcement and the Consequences of Police Involvement in the Opioid Epidemic |
30 No. 6 Health Lawyer 31 (August, 2018) |
In 2016, the world was stunned with the news that the singer Prince experienced multiple opioid overdoses in the last few days of his life. The first publicized overdose he experienced occurred on a flight home from a performance a few days before his death. The singer's plane had to make an emergency landing to provide him with Narcan to save his; Search Snippet: ...IN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF POLICE INVOLVEMENT IN THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC Samantha Smyth [FNa1] Case Western... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Ronald T. Hosko |
Through Police Eyes--the Ferguson Effect Scare |
23 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 9 (Spring, 2018) |
The dynamic world of American policing encountered a period of great turbulence during the closing years of Barack Obama's presidency. Some place blame at his feet while others recognize the broader complexities of police and community relations, the impact of serious and deadly use of force incidents, the amplifying effect of the media, expansion; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring, 2018 Symposium: Criminal Justice at a Crossroads THROUGH POLICE EYES--THE FERGUSON EFFECT SCARE Ronald T. Hosko [FNa1] Copyright... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Evan G. Hebert |
To Protect, Serve, and Inform: Freedom of Information Act Requests and Police Accountability |
19 Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal 271 (Summer, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 272 II. FOIA and the Police. 275 III. The Pervasive Problem of Police Misconduct. 281 A. Police Misconduct and Structural Reform Litigation. 281 B. FOIA Requests and Discretionary Releases Following High-Profile Police Shootings. 284 IV. Evaluating the Arguments Against the Release of Police Personnel Files. 285 A. Wholesale... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Itay Ravid |
True Colors: Crime, Race and Colorblindness Revisited |
28 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 243 (Winter 2018) |
The violent, racially motivated events of the Charlottesville rally unleashed demons that many Americans believed were long buried. Old Jim Crow-inspired racism came straight through the front door. Yet critics of colorblind policies were not surprised. For them, such an eruption of racial hatred manifested what they had repeatedly argued:... |
2018 |
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| Michael Parish |
Unsatisfactory Service: a Revised Look at How to Properly Value a Citizen's Complaint Against a Police Officer |
19 Western Michigan University Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law 237 (2018) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION. 237 II. THE EBB AND FLOW OF PROTECTION FROM UNSATISFACTORY SERVICE. 242 III. EVIDENCING THE VALUE OF A COMPLAINT. 246 IV. AN UPHILL BATTLE TO HOLD OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE?. 252 V. CONDUCT THAT RESULTS IN UNNECESSARY CITIZEN COMPLAINTS IS PROHIBITED AND MAY SERVE AS A BASIS FOR DISCIPLINE. 257 VI. CONCLUSION. 264; Search Snippet: ...AT HOW TO PROPERLY VALUE A CITIZEN'S COMPLAINT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER Michael Parish Copyright © 2018 by Western Michigan University Cooley... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Susan A. Bandes |
Video, Popular Culture, and Police Excessive Force: the Elusive Narrative of Over-policing |
2018 University of Chicago Legal Forum F. 1 (2018) |
Allegations of police brutality are generally credibility contests between the officer and the accuser, and thus their resolution hinges on pre-existing assumptions about what stories are credible. As long as aggressive policing is considered an aberration or a deserved response, legal accounts of unprovoked police violence will be considered... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Susan A. Bandes |
Video, Popular Culture, and Police Excessive Force: the Elusive Narrative of Over-policing |
2018 University of Chicago Legal Forum 1 (2018) |
Allegations of police brutality are generally credibility contests between the officer and the accuser, and thus their resolution hinges on pre-existing assumptions about what stories are credible. As long as aggressive policing is considered an aberration or a deserved response, legal accounts of unprovoked police violence will be considered; Search Snippet: ...Ten Years after The Wire Article VIDEO, POPULAR CULTURE, AND POLICE EXCESSIVE FORCE: THE ELUSIVE NARRATIVE OF OVER- POLICING Susan A. Bandes [FNd1] Copyright © 2018 by The University of... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Nicole Smith Futrell |
Visibly (Un)just: the Optics of Grand Jury Secrecy and Police Violence |
123 Dickinson Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2018) |
Police violence has become more visible to the public through racial justice activism and social justice advocates' use of technology. Yet, the heightened visibility of policing has had limited impact on transparency and accountability in the legal process, particularly when a grand jury is empaneled to determine whether to issue an indictment in a... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Nicole Smith Futrell |
Visibly (Un)just: the Optics of Grand Jury Secrecy and Police Violence |
123 Dickinson Law Review 1 (Fall, 2018) |
Police violence has become more visible to the public through racial justice activism and social justice advocates' use of technology. Yet, the heightened visibility of policing has had limited impact on transparency and accountability in the legal process, particularly when a grand jury is empaneled to determine whether to issue an indictment in a; Search Snippet: ...Article VISIBLY (UN)JUST: THE OPTICS OF GRAND JURY SECRECY AND POLICE VIOLENCE Nicole Smith Futrell [FNa1] Copyright © 2018 by The Pennsylvania State University; Nicole Smith Futrell Police violence has become more visible to the public through racial justice activism and social justice advocates' use of technology. Yet... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Melissa Vargas Lopez |
When Police Officers Exceed Their Authority: the Applicability of Domestic Terrorism to Police Officers |
40 University of La Verne Law Review 64 (Fall, 2018) |
Introduction. 65 I. Domestic Terrorism Defined. 67 A. The United States Code. 67 B. Government Immunity for Police Officers. 69 1. Officers who Use Excessive Force. 69 2. Officers Off-Duty Acting within Scope of Employment. 71 3. Officers who Act Under Color of Law or Act for Private Pursuits. 73 II. Application of Terrorism Offense to Police... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Candace Caruthers |
When the Cops Become the Robbers: the Impact of Asset Forfeiture on Blacks and How to Curtail Asset Forfeiture Abuses |
62 Howard Law Journal 277 (Fall, 2018) |
INTRODUCTION. 278 I. BACKGROUND ON ASSET FORFEITURE AND THE EXCESSIVE FINES CLAUSE. 282 A. The Historical Background of Civil and Criminal Asset Forfeiture. 282 B. Origins of the Eighth Amendment Excessive Fines Clause and Bajakajian's Proportionality Approach. 284 C. Benefits of an Improved Excessive Fines Test. 287 II. ANALYSIS: HONEYCUTT FAILS; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Fall, 2018 Note WHEN THE COPS BECOME THE ROBBERS: THE IMPACT OF ASSET FORFEITURE ON BLACKS... |
2018 |
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| Rebecca Campbell , Giannina Fehler-Cabral |
Why Police "Couldn't or Wouldn't" Submit Sexual Assault Kits for Forensic Dna Testing: a Focal Concerns Theory Analysis of Untested Rape Kits |
52 Law and Society Review 73 (March, 2018) |
In jurisdictions throughout United States, thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs) (also termed rape kits) have not been submitted by the police for forensic DNA testing. DNA evidence may be helpful to sexual assault investigations and prosecutions by identifying offenders, revealing serial offenders through DNA matches across cases, and... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Carrie Menkel-Meadow |
Why We Can't "Just All Get Along": Dysfunction in the Polity and Conflict Resolution and What We Might Do about it |
2018 Journal of Dispute Resolution 5 (Fall, 2018) |
These are very troubled times. The polity is seriously divided; people who march for white supremacy and hate are called nice and very good people by an unhinged, but Constitutionally elected, President; relations between citizens of color and police are at a high level of hostility and distrust; Congress is unable to pass virtually any; Search Snippet: ...practice in larger deliberative fora. [FN9] Now, as class, party, race, ethnic, religious, citizen and migrant, and urban-rural cleavages divide... |
2018 |
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| Mikah K. Thompson |
A Culture of Silence: Exploring the Impact of the Historically Contentious Relationship Between African-americans and the Police |
85 UMKC Law Review 697 (Spring, 2017) |
A legacy of biased police discretionary decision-making persists beyond the demise of de jure racial discrimination, perpetuating a relationship between the police and racial minorities that is primarily authoritarian, regulatory, and punitive in character. Further, contemporary policy decisions at the federal, state, and local levels continue to... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Ryan Geisser |
A Just War Inquiry of Police, Prosecutors & Deadly Force |
10 Washington University Jurisprudence Review 59 (2017) |
Law enforcement is authorized to use deadly force under limited circumstances in the United States. Most do not dispute that there are some clear cases when the use of deadly force is warranted, such as when a person runs at police with a knife and swears they intend to kill the officer. The more controversial issues arise when attempting to... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Felicia A. Reid |
A Matter of Due Regard: Police Misconduct, the New York State Courts, and the Emptiness of Theoretical Justice |
80 Albany Law Review 1103 (2016-2017) |
Whether across front pages and television screens, or in conversations and confrontations, concerns about law enforcement's use of force are at the forefront of national consciousness. Anxieties about police authority and abuse are neither novel nor new. They trace to the Framers' unease toward standing armies in peacetime; the context giving rise... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Marshall Heins II |
Absolutely Qualified: Supreme Court Transforms the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity into Absolute Immunity for Police Officers |
8 Houston Law Review: Off the Record 1 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Case Recitation. 3 A. Background. 3 1. Facts of the Case. 3 2. Procedural History. 4 B. The Supreme Court's Reasoning. 5 1. Per Curiam Opinion of Justices Roberts, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer, Alito and Kagan. 5 2. Justice Scalia's Concurring Opinion. 7 3. Justice Sotomayor's Dissenting Opinion. 7 III. Brief History. 8; Search Snippet: ...TRANSFORMS THE DOCTRINE OF QUALIFIED IMMUNITY INTO ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY FOR POLICE OFFICERS [FNa1] Marshall Heins II Copyright © 2017 by Houston Law... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Aditi Juneja |
Accountability in Policing: How Complicity Perpetuates Institutional Injustice and Inequities in the United States and South Africa |
48 California Western International Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 2 I. Political Inequality and Citizens' Ability to Demand Change. 3 A. Voice. 4 B. Representation. 5 C. Influence. 7 1. Money as Influence. 7 2. Optimism and Belief in Agency. 9 3. Narratives Perpetuated by the Press. 10 II. Structural Barriers to Criminal Prosecutions as a Means of Accountability for Police... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Aditi Juneja |
Accountability in Policing: How Complicity Perpetuates Institutional Injustice and Inequities in the United States and South Africa |
48 California Western International Law Journal 1 (Fall, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 2 I. Political Inequality and Citizens' Ability to Demand Change. 3 A. Voice. 4 B. Representation. 5 C. Influence. 7 1. Money as Influence. 7 2. Optimism and Belief in Agency. 9 3. Narratives Perpetuated by the Press. 10 II. Structural Barriers to Criminal Prosecutions as a Means of Accountability for Police; Search Snippet: ...California Western International Law Journal Fall, 2017 Article ACCOUNTABILITY IN POLICING: HOW COMPLICITY PERPETUATES INSTITUTIONAL INJUSTICE AND INEQUITIES IN THE UNITED... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Derek A. Bisig |
All I Want to Say Is That They Don't Really Care about Us: Reducing Police Misconduct via Social Control Theory |
44 Southern University Law Review 344 (Spring, 2017) |
When all the facts come out, they did what they had to do. Please hurry! There is a man with the gun at the store . He, he pointed it toward me and told me to leave. At this moment, officers are responding to this plea for help from a 911 call. Meanwhile, CD Man is tending to his wares on his table; he does not know that he is about to be; Search Snippet: ...IS THAT THEY DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT US: [FN1] REDUCING POLICE MISCONDUCT VIA SOCIAL CONTROL THEORY Derek A. Bisig [FN2] Copyright... |
2017 |
Yes |
| R. Danielle Burnette |
American Hypocrisy: How the United States' System of Mass Incarceration and Police Brutality Fail to Comply with its Obligations under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
45 Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law 571 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 573 II. The Shooting of Michael Brown and Racial Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System. 575 A. Mike Brown + Police Brutality. 575 B. Racial Discrimination. 578 1. Racial Profiling. 578 2. Disparate Incarceration and Sentencing. 580 C. Failure to Indict Police. 582 III. International and Domestic Law.... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Josh Bowers |
Annoy No Cop |
166 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 129 (December, 2017) |
The objective of the legality principle is to promote autonomy by providing individuals with opportunities to plan courses of conduct free from state intrusion. If precise rules are not prescribed in advance, individuals may lack notice of what is prohibited and may be subjected to arbitrary treatment. Thus, the Constitution commands that legal; Search Snippet: ...University of Pennsylvania Law Review December, 2017 Article ANNOY NO COP Josh Bowers [FNd1] Copyright © 2017 by University of Pennsylvania Law... |
2017 |
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| Paige Newman |
Arizona's Anti-immigration Law and the Pervasiveness of Racial Profiling |
31 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 611 (Spring, 2017) |
Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070) was passed in 2010 as an anti-illegal immigration measure and subsequently became known as one of the broadest and strictest laws of its kind at the time it took effect. The law, entitled Support our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, requires police to determine the immigrant status of someone... |
2017 |
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| Vida B. Johnson |
Bias in Blue: Instructing Jurors to Consider the Testimony of Police Officer Witnesses with Caution |
44 Pepperdine Law Review 245 (2017) |
Jurors in criminal trials are instructed by the judge that they are to treat the testimony of a police officer just like the testimony of any other witness. Fact-finders are told that they should not give police officer testimony greater or lesser weight than any other witness they will hear from at trial. Jurors are to accept that police are no... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Raff Donelson |
Blacks, Cops, and the State of Nature |
15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 183 (Fall, 2017) |
Nasty, brutish, and short --these are the most famous words from Thomas Hobbes's masterwork in political philosophy, Leviathan. These words also aptly describe some of the deadly encounters between American police officers and Black arrestees. I have in mind Eric Garner who was choked to death on the streets of New York City and Walter Scott who; Search Snippet: ...Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law Fall, 2017 Commentary BLACKS, COPS, AND THE STATE OF NATURE Raff Donelson [FNa1] Copyright © 2017... |
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| Nirej Sekhon |
Blue on Black: an Empirical Assessment of Police Shootings |
54 American Criminal Law Review 189 (Winter, 2017) |
Michael Brown's 2014 death in Ferguson, Missouri, thrust police-officer-involved homicides into the popular consciousness. A series of subsequent officer-involved homicides has kept the issue politically and legally salient. Popular media have consistently covered the issue, and many efforts are under way to systematically document police killings.... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Caren Myers Morrison |
Body Camera Obscura: the Semiotics of Police Video |
54 American Criminal Law Review 791 (Summer, 2017) |
Lethal police violence has always existed, but it has not always commanded sustained public attention. Video has changed that. To talk about police violence these days is to evoke a series of images--Eric Garner sagging in a police chokehold, Philando Castile expiring in the seat next to his girlfriend, Michael Brown's body lying in the street --... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Jennifer Sellitti , New Jersey Public Defender's Office, Trenton, New Jersey, 609-292-7087, Email jennifer.sellitti@opd.nj.gov |
Breaking Blue: Challenging Police Officer Credibility at Motions to Suppress |
41-DEC Champion 16 (December, 2017) |
Every time a police officer puts his left hand on the Bible, raises his right hand in the air, and swears to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, he is inviting the factfinder to judge his credibility. For defense attorneys operating in a world in which blue lives matter and police officers are revered as inherently trustworthy, this creates... |
2017 |
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Building Movement: Racial Injustice, Transformative Justice and Reimagined Policing |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 420 (Fall, 2017) |
TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS held at Northwestern University School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the 13th day of November, A.D. 2015, at 3:15 p.m. MODERATOR: MS. SHEILA BEDI, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law; Attorney at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Carolyn Calhoun |
Bullseye on Their Back: Police Profiling and Abuse of Trans and Gender Non-conforming Individuals and Solutions Beyond the Department of Justice Guidelines |
8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 127 (2017) |
I. Introduction. 127 II. Statistics and Axes of Oppression. 129 A. History/Level of Discrimination. 130 B. Profiling, DOJ Guidance, and Constitutional Doctrines at Play. 133 III. Solutions. 138 A. Sociological Measures. 138 B. Concrete Measures. 140 IV. Conclusion. 143 |
2017 |
Yes |
| Tom R. Tyler |
Can the Police Enhance Their Popular Legitimacy Through Their Conduct?: Using Empirical Research to Inform Law |
2017 University of Illinois Law Review 1971 (2017) |
My goal is to demonstrate the value of evidence-informed law through an examination of its influence upon issues that have been central to recent discussions about the police. The first advantage of evidence-informed law is that it draws upon social science theories to suggest possible alternatives to traditional legal frameworks. The second... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Devan Byrd |
Challenging Excessive Force: Why Police Officers Disproportionately Exercise Excessive Force Towards Blacks and Why this Systemic Problem must End |
8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 93 (2017) |
Because of the national attention on the Black Lives Matter movement, legal literature has focused on examining the absence of charges and the acquittals of police officers and vigilantes responsible for Black deaths. In particular, administrative agencies, academics, and courts are currently debating the sufficiency of the federal... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Bryce Clayton Newell |
Collateral Visibility: a Socio-legal Study of Police Body-camera Adoption, Privacy, and Public Disclosure in Washington State |
92 Indiana Law Journal 1329 (Fall, 2017) |
Law enforcement use of body-worn cameras has become a subject of significant public and scholarly debate in recent years. This Article presents findings from a study of the legal and social implications of body-worn camera adoption by two police departments in Washington State. In particular, this study focuses on the public disclosure of body-worn... |
2017 |
Yes |