| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Cynthia H. Conti-Cook |
Open Data Policing |
106 Georgetown Law Journal Online 1 (2017) |
More than any other promised police reform, the public would benefit from the government adopting an open data philosophy towards police accountability data. Open data in the context of public policy is the philosophy that when the government provides people access to its process, decision-making, and data, a more effective ecosystem for; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL ONLINE Georgetown Law Journal Online 2017 OPEN DATA POLICING Cynthia H. Conti-Cook [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by The Georgetown... |
2017 |
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Plain Touch & Stop-and-frisk Policing: the Intersection of Race, Drugs, and Disorder |
53 Criminal Law Bulletin 3 (2017) |
Michael S. Klein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at Lynchburg College. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Washington State University. His primary research interests are legal issues in criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, and school violence. Contact information: Lynchburg College, 1501 Lakeside Dr.,; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2017 Criminal Law Bulletin Plain Touch & Stop-and-Frisk Policing: The Intersection of Race, Drugs, and Disorder Michael S. Klein * Introduction Research shows... |
2017 |
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| Gary E. Lippman |
Police Body Cameras Part Ii: Will Body Cameras Improve Policing in Florida? |
91-AUG Florida Bar Journal 59 (July/August, 2017) |
Part one of this article, in the December 2016 issue of the Journal, explored whether the growing use of police body cameras, a practice with a variety of impacts on officers' employment, would be the subject of mandatory collective bargaining in Florida. I now address the broader question of whether such devices would improve the delivery and cost; Search Snippet: ...Bar Journal July/August, 2017 Column Labor and Employment Law POLICE BODY CAMERAS PART II: WILL BODY CAMERAS IMPROVE POLICING IN FLORIDA? Gary E. Lippman [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by The... |
2017 |
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| Corinthia A. Carter |
Police Brutality, the Law & Today's Social Justice Movement: How the Lack of Police Accountability Has Fueled #Hashtag Activism |
20 CUNY Law Review 521 (Spring, 2017) |
C1-2Contents I. Introduction. 522 II. Contextual Perception of the Laws. 525 III. The Law. 528 A. 18 U.S.C. § 242. 528 B. 42 U.S.C. § 1983. 529 C. 42 U.S.C. § 14141. 530 D. Successes and Shortcomings of the Federal Provisions. 531 IV. Current State and Local Remedies. 537 A. Criminal Code. 537 B. Civilian (Complaint) Review Boards. 538 C.... |
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Police in America: Ensuring Accountability and Mitigating Racial Bias |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 385 (Fall, 2017) |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS held at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the 13th day of November, A.D. 2015. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MR. PAUL BUTLER, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.). PROFESSOR BEDI: Okay. Welcome back, everybody. We are going to get started with... |
2017 |
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Police in America: Ensuring Accountability and Mitigating Racial Bias |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 354 (Fall, 2017) |
UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING IMPLICIT BIAS held at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Thorne Auditorium, 375 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the 13 day of November, A.D. 2015. FEATURED SPEAKER: Professor Destiny Peery; Introduction by Professor Locke Bowman. PROFESSOR BOWMAN: Good morning and welcome, everyone. My name is Locke Bowman.... |
2017 |
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| William Briggs |
Police Oversight: Civilian Oversight Boards and Lessons Learned from Our Neighbors to the North |
40 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 139 (Winter, 2017) |
In recent years the United States has witnessed a growing divide between its citizenry and police force. Recent decisions declining to indict white police officers for the killings of two unarmed black men in Ferguson, Missouri, and Staten Island, New York have acted to further widen this divide. These events have called into question the... |
2017 |
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| Monica C. Bell |
Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement |
126 Yale Law Journal 2054 (May, 2017) |
In police reform circles, many scholars and policymakers diagnose the frayed relationship between police forces and the communities they serve as a problem of illegitimacy, or the idea that people lack confidence in the police and thus are unlikely to comply or cooperate with them. The core proposal emanating from this illegitimacy diagnosis is... |
2017 |
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| Saul M. Kassin, Jeff Kukucka, Victoria Z. Lawson, John DeCarlo, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Towson University, Institute for State and Local Governance of the City University of New York, University of New Haven |
Police Reports of Mock Suspect Interrogations: a Test of Accuracy and Perception |
41 Law and Human Behavior 230 (June, 2017) |
A 2-phased experiment assessed the accuracy and completeness of police reports on mock interrogations and their effects on people's perceptions. In Phase 1, 16 experienced officers investigated a mock crime scene, interrogated 2 innocent suspects--1 described by the experimenter as more suspicious than the other--and filed an incident report. All; Search Snippet: ...LAW AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR Law and Human Behavior June, 2017 POLICE REPORTS OF MOCK SUSPECT INTERROGATIONS: A TEST OF ACCURACY AND... |
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| Stephen Rushin |
Police Union Contracts |
66 Duke Law Journal 1191 (March, 2017) |
This Article empirically demonstrates that police departments' internal disciplinary procedures, often established through the collective bargaining process, can serve as barriers to officer accountability. Policymakers have long relied on a handful of external legal mechanisms like the exclusionary rule, civil litigation, and criminal prosecution... |
2017 |
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| Catherine L. Fisk, L. Song Richardson |
Police Unions |
85 George Washington Law Review 712 (May, 2017) |
No issue has been more controversial in the discussion of police union responses to allegations of excessive force than statutory and contractual protections for officers accused of misconduct, as critics assail such protections and police unions defend them. For all the public controversy over police unions, there is relatively little legal... |
2017 |
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| Osagie K. Obasogie, Zachary Newman |
Police Violence, Use of Force Policies, and Public Health |
43 American Journal of Law & Medicine 279 (2017) |
Racialized police violence is a recurring issue. Recent social movements have re-centered police violence as a subject of public discourse, yet there has been little progress in reducing the number of people killed by police. Without further efforts in research and legal reform, this everyday crisis will continue. Thus, material interventions... |
2017 |
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| Alberto R. Gonzales , Donald Q. Cochran |
Police-worn Body Cameras: an Antidote to the "Ferguson Effect"? |
82 Missouri Law Review 299 (Spring, 2017) |
You are a police officer working the night shift in a major U.S. city. In the dark hours of the early morning, you come across a group of young males in a part of the city known for criminal activity. When they see your patrol car, the young men stop what they are doing and look away quickly. All of your training, as well as the instincts that you... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Tracey Meares |
Policing and Procedural Justice: Shaping Citizens' Identities to Increase Democratic Participation |
111 Northwestern University Law Review 1525 (2017) |
Like the education system, the criminal justice system offers both formal, overt curricula--found in the Bill of Rights, and informal or hidden curricula--embodied in how people are treated in interactions with legal authorities in courtrooms and on the streets. The overt policing curriculum identifies police officers as peace; Search Snippet: ...Symposium Empirical Foundations: Shared Norms, Lay Intuitions, Legitimacy, and Compliance POLICING AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE: SHAPING CITIZENS' IDENTITIES TO INCREASE DEMOCRATIC PARTICIPATION... |
2017 |
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| Andrew Guthrie Ferguson |
Policing Predictive Policing |
94 Washington University Law Review 1109 (2017) |
Predictive policing is sweeping the nation, promising the holy grail of policing--preventing crime before it happens. The technology has far outpaced any legal or political accountability and has largely escaped academic scrutiny. This article examines predictive policing's evolution with the goal of providing the first practical and theoretical... |
2017 |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Policing the Boundaries of Whiteness: the Tragedy of Being "Out of Place" from Emmett till to Trayvon Martin |
102 Iowa Law Review 1113 (March, 2017) |
This Article takes what many view as an extraordinary case about racial hatred from 1955, the Emmett Till murder and trial, and analyzes it against the Trayvon Martin killing and trial outcome in 2012 and 2013. Specifically, this Article exposes one important, but not yet explored similarity between the two cases: their shared role in... |
2017 |
Yes |
| David E. Patton |
Policing the Poor and the Two Faces of the Justice Department |
44 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1431 (November, 2017) |
Introduction. 1431 I. The Civil Rights Division and Policing. 1435 II. The United States Attorneys' Offices and Policing. 1440 Conclusion. 1446 |
2017 |
Yes |
| Debo P. Adegbile |
Policing Through an American Prism |
126 Yale Law Journal 2222 (May, 2017) |
Policing practices in America are under scrutiny. Video clips, protests, and media coverage bring attention and a sense of urgency to fatal police civilian incidents that are often accompanied by broader calls for reform. Tensions often run high after officer involved shootings of unarmed civilians, and minority communities, law enforcement, and... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Bennett Capers |
Policing, Technology, and Doctrinal Assists |
69 Florida Law Review 723 (May, 2017) |
Sounding the alarm about technology, policing, and privacy has become an almost daily occurrence. We are told that the government's use of technology as a surveillance tool is an insidious assault on our freedom. That it is nearly impossible to live today without generating thousands of records about what we watch, read, buy and do--and the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Devon W. Carbado |
Predatory Policing |
85 UMKC Law Review 545 (Spring, 2017) |
This essay explains how predatory policing and mass criminalization interact to expose African-Americans not only to ongoing police surveillance, contact, and social control, but also to economic exploitation and state violence in the form of arrest, incarceration, serious bodily injury, and death. In the context of offering an overarching... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Rick Jones , Neighborhood Defender, Service of Harlem, New York, NY, 212-876-5500, Website www.ndsny.org, E-mail rjones@ndsny.org |
Predictive Policing: the Modernization of Historical Human Injustice |
41-OCT Champion 5 (September/October, 2017) |
A cell-site stimulator--or stingray as it is commonly called--allows the owner to electronically mimic a cellphone tower. By using a stronger signal than an actual tower, a stingray effectively forces a cellphone to connect to the device rather than a tower. Developed for clients like the NSA, Special Forces and CIA, a stingray allows the; Search Snippet: ...CHAMPION Champion September/October, 2017 Column From the President PREDICTIVE POLICING: THE MODERNIZATION OF HISTORICAL HUMAN INJUSTICE Rick Jones [FNa1] Neighborhood... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Rachel A. Harmon , Andrew Manns |
Proactive Policing and the Legacy of Terry |
15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 49 (Fall, 2017) |
Fourth Amendment cases largely focus on a single aspect of policing: criminal investigation. Terry v. Ohio revealed a different side of policing, one in which officers patrol urban streets and intervene to solve problems as they emerge. Though not complete, Terry's representation of policing is far more like everyday patrol policing than the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Tom Tyler |
Procedural Justice and Policing: a Rush to Judgment? |
13 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 29 (2017) |
procedural justice, legitimacy, consensual models of authority, coercion, trust in the police, compliance, cooperation, identification, engagement Within policing research there is currently little research examining the role of procedural justice in shaping legitimacy and considering their joint role in shaping compliance. However, large; Search Snippet: ...Review of Law and Social Science 2017 PROCEDURAL JUSTICE AND POLICING: A RUSH TO JUDGMENT? Tom Tyler [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Darrell D. Jackson, JD, PhD |
Profiling the Police: Flipping 20 Years of Whren on its Head |
85 UMKC Law Review 671 (Spring, 2017) |
In this article, I argue a simple, time-honored philosophy - What's good for the goose is good for the gander. The Supreme Court and a large swath of law enforcement appear to be comfortable with the idea of profiling - racially and generally. Simultaneously, historically marginalized communities throughout the country are calling for increased... |
2017 |
Yes |
| I. Bennett Capers |
Race, Policing, and Technology |
95 North Carolina Law Review 1241 (May, 2017) |
This Essay argues that if we truly care about making policing egalitarian and fair to everyone, then that could mean more policing, not less. It advocates harnessing technology, including surveillance technology, to help deracialize policing. This turn to technology will not be cost free. Indeed, one cost will be the redistribution of privacy. This... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Rachel D. Godsil , L. Song Richardson |
Racial Anxiety |
102 Iowa Law Review 2235 (July, 2017) |
Many have embraced evidence from the mind sciences that our behaviors are often influenced by our implicit biases rather than our conscious beliefs. This is one reason why implicit bias has become a staple in trainings for judges, lawyers, police officers, teachers, and health care providers. While understanding that implicit bias is... |
2017 |
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| Jonathan Simon |
Racing Abnormality, Normalizing Race: the Origins of America's Peculiar Carceral State and its Prospects for Democratic Transformation Today |
111 Northwestern University Law Review 1625 (2017) |
For those struggling with criminal justice reform today, the long history of failed efforts to close the gap between the promise of legal equality and the practice of our police forces and prison systems can seem mysterious and frustrating. Progress has been made in establishing stronger rights for individuals in the investigatory and... |
2017 |
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| Sherri Lee Keene |
Raising Arguments about the Potential Influence of Implicit Racial Bias in Police Stops |
32-SUM Criminal Justice 35 (Summer, 2017) |
in the criminal courtroom, race can often feel like the elephant in the room. While racial bias can play a role in decision making at many points in the criminal process, discussions on this topic can be stifled. Yet, for a criminal defense attorney, the inability to discuss how race may have impacted a defendant's case can result in missed... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Lindsey Barrett |
Reasonably Suspicious Algorithms: Predictive Policing at the United States Border |
41 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 327 (2017) |
As big data's promises of increased efficiency and serendipitous insights spread across a broad range of sectors, they are accompanied by new risks--some intuitive, some unpredictable. That dichotomy is heavily accentuated in the law enforcement context, where blithe application of new technologies to analogue doctrines poses a greater threat to; Search Snippet: ...Law and Social Change 2017 Article REASONABLY SUSPICIOUS ALGORITHMS: PREDICTIVE POLICING AT THE UNITED STATES BORDER Lindsey Barrett [FNa1] Copyright © 2017... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Howard M. Wasserman |
Recording of and by Police: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly |
20 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 543 (Summer, 2017) |
I. Introduction: Moral Panics and Body Cameras. 543 II. Unknown Effects and Consequences. 547 A. Early Body-Camera Studies. 548 1. Mesa, AZ. 548 2. Rialto, CA. 548 3. Phoenix, AZ. 549 4. San Diego, CA. 549 B. Limitations. 550 III. Making Sense of Video Evidence. 550 IV. Devil in the Details of Implementation. 555 V. Conclusion. 560 |
2017 |
Yes |
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Reforming the Ranks: Policy Initiatives to Ensure Police Accountability & Improve Police and Community Relations |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 402 (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 2:00 p.m. MODERATOR: MS. ALEXA A. VAN BRUNT, Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law; Attorney at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Cynthia Lum, Daniel S. Nagin |
Reinventing American Policing |
46 Crime and Justice 339 (2017) |
Two principles should form the bedrock for effective policing in a democratic society. The first is that crimes averted, not arrests made, should be the primary metric for judging police effectiveness. The second is that citizens' views about the police and their tactics for preventing crime and disorder matter independently of police... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Donald F. Tibbs , Tryon P. Woods |
Requiem for Laquan Mcdonald: Policing as Punishment and Abolishing Reasonable Suspicion |
89 Temple Law Review 763 (Summer, 2017) |
To have lived in bad faith is to have evaded recognition of oneself as a human being. It is to have lived a fugitive existence .. To die in bad faith, then, is tantamount to having never lived. Introduction. 763 I. The Problem of Generalized Suspicion. 767 II. Deconstructing the Prophylactic Rule in Terry v. Ohio. 770 III. Rethinking Punishment's... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Professor Scott Holmes |
Resisting Arrest and Racism - the Crime of "Disrespect" |
85 UMKC Law Review 625 (Spring, 2017) |
Maybe all she had left when her words ran out was this smack of action. Maybe her heart is a charred city, charmed city Her son, her last ember. We take her footage into our eyes and mouths, add our own soundtrack and lean political. John Hill is a poor black man, his body covered in burn scars. He was riding his bicycle down Alston Avenue in... |
2017 |
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| Desiree Alexander |
Resisting Arrest: Shifting the Focus of the New York Police Department |
19 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 47 (2017) |
. I am invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe . I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me . When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination . anything except me. It is . often . wearing on the nerves . you doubt if you really exist . It's... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Desiree Phair |
Searching for the Appropriate Standard: Stops, Seizure, and the Reasonable Person's Willingness to Walk Away from the Police |
92 Washington Law Review 425 (March, 2017) |
A person is seized by an officer, and thus entitled to Fourth Amendment protections, if a reasonable person would not feel free to leave. Although courts must set a standard for when a person has been seized by an officer, few real-world studies exist regarding when individuals feel truly free to disregard the police. In addition,... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Isaac G. Lara |
Shielded from Justice: How State Attorneys General Can Provide Structural Remedies to the Criminal Prosecutions of Police Officers |
50 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 551 (Summer, 2017) |
The recent string of police shootings involving unarmed civilians has prompted national outcry over the actions of law enforcement officials. Many state and local law enforcement agencies today are reexamining the way prosecutors handle these incidents. In most jurisdictions today, District Attorneys are responsible for investigating such cases,; Search Snippet: ...GENERAL CAN PROVIDE STRUCTURAL REMEDIES TO THE CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS OF POLICE OFFICERS Isaac G. Lara [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by the Columbia... |
2017 |
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Smart Weapons Need Smart Policies: Municipal Liability for the Inappropriate Use of Tasers and Stun Guns by Police Officers |
53 Criminal Law Bulletin 3 (2017) |
Vidisha Barua Worley, Ph.D., Esquire, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas; former contributing editor and columnist with the Criminal Law Bulletin (January 2010 to December 2013); founding member of the Institute for Legal Studies in Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University; and a licensed; Search Snippet: ...for the Inappropriate Use of Tasers and Stun Guns by Police Officers Vidisha Barua Worley and Robert M. Worley * ... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Carrie Leonetti |
Smoking Guns: the Supreme Court's Willingness to Lower Procedural Barriers to Merits Review in Cases Involving Egregious Racial Bias in the Criminal Justice System |
101 Marquette Law Review 205 (Fall, 2017) |
The systematic foreclosure of federal-court review of even the most meritorious federal constitutional challenges of state criminal convictions has made review on the merits of an inmate's claim that a state court violated the U.S. Constitution in adjudicating a criminal case exceedingly rare. Nonetheless, over the past two terms, the Supreme Court... |
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| Rachele Norfolk |
Solving the Depraved Heart Murder Problem in Maryland: a Suggestion for Successful Prosecution of Police Officers |
46 University of Baltimore Law Review 547 (Summer, 2017) |
It is true that we have grown adroit at feigning astonishment at the episodic convulsions of violence in American cities, but that doesn't make them any less predictable or their roots any less apparent. With the exception of the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., every major riot by the black community of an American... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Paul G. Cassell , Richard Fowles |
Still Handcuffing the Cops? A Review of Fifty Years of Empirical Evidence of Miranda's Harmful Effects on Law Enforcement |
97 Boston University Law Review 685 (May, 2017) |
Introduction. 687 I. Gauging Miranda's Effect on Law Enforcement. 689 A. The Before-and-After Miranda Confession Rate Impact Studies. 691 B. The Second Generation Miranda Studies. 695 1. Questioning of Adults. 696 2. Questioning of Juveniles. 699 C. The Need to Move Beyond Confession Rates. 701 II. Clearance Rates as an Indirect Measure of; Search Snippet: ...of Miranda v. Arizona Opening Keynote Address STILL HANDCUFFING THE COPS? A REVIEW OF FIFTY YEARS OF EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF MIRANDA'S... |
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| L. Song Richardson |
Systemic Triage: Implicit Racial Bias in the Criminal Courtroom Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Van Cleve Stanford University Press, April 2016 |
126 Yale Law Journal 862 (January, 2017) |
L1-2BOOK REVIEW CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 864 I. RACISM IN PRACTICE 867 A. Policing Racial Boundaries 868 B. Culture and the Race-Blind Code 869 C. Limitations 873 II. SYSTEMIC TRIAGE AND ITS RACIALIZED CONSEQUENCES 875 A. Implicit Racial Bias 875 B. Systemic Triage 877 C. Implicit Bias Under Conditions of Systemic Triage 881 III. RECOMMENDED REMEDIES... |
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| Monu Bedi |
The Asymmetry of Crimes by and Against Police Officers |
66 Duke Law Journal Online 79 (May, 2017) |
The shootings by and against police officers over the last few years have raised numerous issues--political, social, and legal--on the relationship and interactions between officers and citizens. This Essay focuses on the criminal laws that govern these encounters. At first blush, their application seems noncontroversial. If a crime is committed,; Search Snippet: ...Online May, 2017 THE ASYMMETRY OF CRIMES BY AND AGAINST POLICE OFFICERS Monu Bedi [FNd1] Copyright © 2017 by Monu Bedi Introduction... |
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| Seth W. Stoughton |
The Blurred Blue Line: Reform in an Era of Public & Private Policing |
44 American Journal of Criminal Law 117 (Spring, 2017) |
I. Introduction. 117 II. The Evolution of Public and Private Policing. 119 III. The Blurring of the Blue Line. 127 IV. Police Reform & the Blurred Blue Line. 146 V. Conclusion. 154 |
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| Aziz Z. Huq |
The Consequences of Disparate Policing: Evaluating Stop and Frisk as a Modality of Urban Policing |
101 Minnesota Law Review 2397 (June, 2017) |
Introduction. 2398 I. The Costs and Benefits of Stop and Frisk Policing. 2409 A. Defining Stop and Frisk (SQF). 2409 B. The Crime-Control Benefits of SQF in Context. 2413 1. The Case for SQF. 2413 2. The Difficulties of SQF as Violent Crime Control. 2417 C. The Ecological and Dynamic Costs of SQF. 2429 D. The Distinctive Moral Wrong of SQF. 2440... |
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| Alice Ristroph |
The Constitution of Police Violence |
64 UCLA Law Review 1182 (August, 2017) |
Police force is again under scrutiny in the United States. Several recent killings of black men by police officers have prompted an array of reform proposals, most of which seem to assume that these recent killings were not (or should not be) authorized and legal. Our constitutional doctrine suggests otherwise. From the 1960s to the present,... |
2017 |
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| Rebecca Roiphe |
The Duty to Charge in Police Use of Excessive Force Cases |
65 Cleveland State Law Review 503 (2017) |
Responding to the problems of mass incarceration, racial disparities in justice, and wrongful convictions, scholars have focused on prosecutorial overcharging. They have, however, neglected to address undercharging--the failure to charge in entire classes of cases. Undercharging can similarly undermine the efficacy and legitimacy of the criminal... |
2017 |
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| Gali Perry , Tal Jonathan-Zamir , David Weisburd |
The Effect of Paramilitary Protest Policing on Protestors' Trust in the Police: the Case of the "Occupy Israel" Movement |
51 Law and Society Review 602 (September, 2017) |
The use of paramilitary methods in civil policing tasks has become common in Western police agencies. Despite propositions that such methods should undermine the relationship between the police and the public, the effect of paramilitary policing on public trust in the police has not been empirically tested. In the present study, we examine this... |
2017 |
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| William E. Nelson |
The Emerging American Police State: the Problem Is Not with the Police, but Higher up |
33 Touro Law Review 709 (2017) |
Recent police shootings have focused public attention on the role of police in American society. There is much talk about the need to reform police practices and thereby control the misuse of police power. This article argues that concern with reforming the police will not fully deter the emergence of an American police state or significantly; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2017 Article and Book Review THE EMERGING AMERICAN POLICE STATE: THE PROBLEM IS NOT WITH THE POLICE, BUT HIGHER UP William E. Nelson [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by... |
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| Kermit V. Lipez |
The First Amendment and the Police in the Digital Age |
69 Maine Law Review 215 (2017) |
I. Introduction II. Background A. The Boston Common B. Simon Glik C. The Incident III. Glick in Court A. Proceedings Below B. At the First Circuit 1. Qualified Immunity 2. The Constitutional Question 3. Clearly Established Law IV. Reaction to Glick A. Media Response B. Police Response 1. Increased Public Recording Capacity: Cell Phone Cameras 2.... |
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