| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Ryan Cohen |
The Force and the Resistance: Why Changing the Police Force Is Neither Inevitable, Nor Impossible |
20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 105 (2017) |
INTRODUCTION. 105 I. FROM WARRIORS TO GUARDIANS. 107 A. Policing Culture Today. 107 B. Explanations. 110 C. Resistance to Change. 112 D. The Force of Tomorrow. 113 II. A NEW WAY FORWARD: CHANGE MANAGEMENT. 114 A. Why Change Is Hard. 114 B. What Does It Take to Make a Switch. 114 1. Direct the Rider. 115 2. Motivate the Elephant. 118 3. Shape the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. |
The Grand Jury's Role in the Prosecution of Unjustified Police Killings -- Challenges and Solutions |
52 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 397 (Summer, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 398 I. The Role and Function of the Grand Jury. 401 II. Structural and Functional Challenges to Obtaining Grand Jury Indictments in Cases Involving Police Violence. 403 A. Grand Jury Secrecy. 403 1. Insulating Grand Jurors' Identities and Deliberations from Public Scrutiny. 404 2. Insulating Prosecutorial; Search Snippet: ...Article THE GRAND JURY'S ROLE IN THE PROSECUTION OF UNJUSTIFIED POLICE KILLINGS -- CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. [FNa1] Copyright... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Anna Lvovsky |
The Judicial Presumption of Police Expertise |
130 Harvard Law Review 1995 (June, 2017) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 1997 I. The Professionalization Movement. 2003 A. Bureaucracy and Individual Expertise. 2003 B. Police Academies and the Semiotics of Crime. 2006 C. Police Reformers and the Courts. 2008 D. The Public Limits of Professionalization. 2012 II. Police Expertise in Court.. 2015 A. Expert Witnesses. 2016 1. The Rise of the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Carrie L. Rosenbaum |
The Natural Persistence of Racial Disparities in Crime-based Removals |
13 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 532 (Fall, 2017) |
This Article suggests that the replacement of Secure Communities with the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) did not, and would not have ameliorated the problem of disparate criminal immigration deportation of Latina/o noncitizens. It explores the implications of de-coupling criminal and immigration enforcement and gives theoretical consideration... |
2017 |
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| Tracey L. Meares |
The Path Forward: Improving the Dynamics of Community-police Relationships to Achieve Effective Law Enforcement Policies |
117 Columbia Law Review 1355 (June, 2017) |
Introduction. 1355 I. The Complex Relationship Between Police and the Community: Exploring Existing Sociological, Psychological, and Historical Research. 1356 A. Interpreting Crime Reports. 1356 B. Exploring Legal Cynicism. 1359 C. Perceptions of Fairness. 1360 D. Examining Relationships (Past and Present). 1363 II. Moving Forward. 1365 |
2017 |
Yes |
| Kate Masur |
The People's Welfare, Police Powers, and the Rights of Free People of African Descent |
57 American Journal of Legal History 238 (June, 2017) |
In addition to offering hilariously long lists of local regulations, The People's Welfare addresses some of the largest and most interesting questions in the field of U.S. history, for instance what Novak calls the fundamental tension in the coexistence of a heightened American rhetoric of individual liberty with a constant and historic readiness; Search Snippet: ...Book Symposium: The People's Welfare at 20 THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE, POLICE POWERS, AND THE RIGHTS OF FREE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Bryan L. Sykes, University of California-Irvine |
The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice. By Nina M. Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 406 Pp. $30.99 Paperback |
51 Law and Society Review 211 (March, 2017) |
In April 2016, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters clashed with Bill Clinton over his role in the passage of the 1994 Crime Bill and Hillary Clinton's use of the term super predators to describe the involvement of black youth in criminal offenses. Demonstrators sought to highlight how policymakers and the general public construct narratives and... |
2017 |
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| Gabriel J. Chin |
The Problematic Prosecution of an Asian American Police Officer: Notes from a Participant in People V. Peter Liang |
51 Georgia Law Review 1023 (Summer, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1024 II. Liability for Manslaughter or Negligent Homicide. 1029 III. Being Careful What We Wish For. 1036 A. PUBLIC NOTORIETY AND PRESSURE. 1037 B. REVERSING THE ROLES. 1039 C. JURY DEFERENCE, JURY PREJUDICE. 1041 D. HARMLESS ERROR. 1041 E. OBSCURING REAL CAUSES. 1043 |
2017 |
Yes |
| Jillian K. Swencionis, Phillip Atiba Goff , Center for Policing Equity and John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
The Psychological Science of Racial Bias and Policing |
23 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 398 (November, 2017) |
What can the social psychology of racial bias teach us about the potential for racial bias in policing? Because social psychological research is mostly laboratory based and rarely includes police officers, direct generalizability is limited. However, social psychology has identified robust risk factors that make individuals more likely to engage in... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Ashley Billam |
The Public's Evolution from News Reader to News Gatherer: an Analysis of the First Amendment Right to Videorecord Police |
66 University of Kansas Law Review 149 (October, 2017) |
That Men ought to speak well of their Governours is true, while their Governours deserve to be well spoken of; but to do public Mischief, without hearing of it, is only the Prerogative and Felicity of Tyranny: A free People will be shewing that they are so, by their Freedom of Speech. The Administration of Government, is nothing else but the; Search Snippet: ...GATHERER: AN ANALYSIS OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO VIDEORECORD POLICE Ashley Billam [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by Kansas Law Review, Inc... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Michelle S. Jacobs |
The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence |
24 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 39 (Fall, 2017) |
Introduction I. The Historical View A. Stereotypes About Black Women 1. Black Women as Governed by Libido and Loose Morals 2. Black Women as Liars 3. Black Women as Man-Like and Aggressive II. Black Women Are Murdered and Assaulted by the Police A. Invisible Homicides Committed by the Police 1. Black Women with Mental Health Issues Are... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Julian A. Cook III |
The Wrong Decision at the Wrong Time: Utah V. Strieff in the Era of Aggressive Policing |
70 SMU Law Review 293 (Spring, 2017) |
This Court has given officers an array of instruments to probe and examine you. When we condone officers' use of these devices without adequate cause, we give them reason to target pedestrians in an arbitrary manner. We also risk treating members of our communities as second-class citizens. --Justice Sotomayor ON June 20, 2016, the United States... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Rob Kahn |
Three First Amendment Puzzles Raised by the Police Union Response to Speech Criticizing Police Conduct in Ferguson and New York City |
8 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 163 (2017) |
I. Introduction: Police Unions, Protests Against Police Shootings and Freedom of Speech. 164 A. Football Players, a Big City Mayor, and a Police Union Crackdown. 166 B. American First Amendment Values and Bollinger's Tolerant Society Model. 171 C. Three Puzzles Raised by the Police Union Response. 174 II. Should Police Unions Ever Take Part in... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Hannah Walker |
Unspoken Immunity and Reimagined Justice: the Potential for Implementing Restorative Justice and Community Justice Models in Police-related Shootings |
37 Pace Law Review 789 (Spring, 2017) |
On July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot to death during a routine traffic stop outside of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. As Officer Jeronimo Yanez approached Castile's vehicle, Castile's girlfriend began to live stream the encounter on her smart phone. The graphic footage that followed demonstrates the brutal reality Castile faced as a black man... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Bruce Green |
Urban Policing and Public Policy--the Prosecutor's Role |
51 Georgia Law Review 1179 (Summer, 2017) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 1180 II. Background. 1181 A. THE PROBLEMATIC NATURE OF STOP-AND-FRISK AS A CRIME CONTROL MEASURE. 1181 B. PROSECUTORS' RESPONSE TO PROBLEMATIC STOP-AND-FRISK PRACTICES. 1186 III. The Role of Public Policy in Case Processing. 1188 A. PROSECUTORS' CORE ROLE AS CASE PROCESSORS. 1188 B. QUESTIONS OF LEGALITY IN... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Guy Padula |
Utah V. Strieff: Lemonade Stands and Dragnet Policing |
120 West Virginia Law Review 469 (Winter 2017) |
I. Introduction. 469 II. Dragnet Policing and Racial Profiling. 476 A. Strieff and the Threat of Dragnet Policing. 476 B. Defining Dragnet Policing and Racial Profiling. 478 III. The Rise and Spread of Racial Profiling in America. 483 A. Stage One of Racial Profiling in America: The Airport Drug Courier Profile. 483 B. Mendenhall's Radical... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Amelia Courtney Hritz |
Voluntariness with a Vengeance: the Coerciveness of Police Lies in Interrogations |
102 Cornell Law Review 487 (January, 2017) |
Introduction. 487 I. The Law's Narrow Understanding of Coercion. 489 II. The Wrongfulness of Deception. 493 A. When State Action Is Coercive. 494 B. When State Coercion Is Wrongful. 496 C. When Lies Are Wrongful. 497 D. When Police Lies Are Wrongful. 499 1. Why Police Force Is Wrongful. 499 2. Why Police Lies Are Wrongful. 501 III. Weighing the; Search Snippet: ...2017 Note VOLUNTARINESS WITH A VENGEANCE: [FN1] THE COERCIVENESS OF POLICE LIES IN INTERROGATIONS Amelia Courtney Hritz [FNd1] Copyright © 2017 by... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Cynthia Gonzalez |
We've Been Here Before: Countering Violent Extremism Through Community Policing |
74 National Lawyers Guild Review Rev. 1 (Spring, 2017) |
In the past, our courts have decided that African-Americans have no rights the white man is bound to respect, separate but equal is appropriate under the federal Constitution, it is criminal to speak against our military's involvement in a war, and interning Japanese-Americans is a legitimate national security measure. While these historical... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Cynthia Gonzalez |
We've Been Here Before: Countering Violent Extremism Through Community Policing |
74 National Lawyers Guild Review 1 (Spring, 2017) |
In the past, our courts have decided that African-Americans have no rights the white man is bound to respect, separate but equal is appropriate under the federal Constitution, it is criminal to speak against our military's involvement in a war, and interning Japanese-Americans is a legitimate national security measure. While these historical; Search Snippet: ...2017 WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE: COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISM THROUGH COMMUNITY POLICING Cynthia Gonzalez [FNa1] Copyright © 2017 by National Lawyers Guild Review... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Laurent Sacharoff , Sarah Lustbader |
Who Should Own Police Body Camera Videos? |
95 Washington University Law Review 269 (2017) |
Numerous cities, states, and localities have adopted police body camera programs to enhance police accountability in the wake of repeated instances of police misconduct, as well as recent reports of more deep-seated police problems. These body camera programs hold great promise to achieve accountability, often backed by millions of dollars in... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Craig B. Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, Jamie Kalven |
Youth/police Encounters on Chicago's South Side: Acknowledging the Realities |
51 Georgia Law Review 1079 (Summer, 2017) |
This Article was originally published in the 2016 Volume of the University of Chicago Legal Forum, entitled Policing the Police. The suggested citation to this Article is: Craig Futterman et al., They Have All the Power: Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago's South Side, 2016 U. Chi. Legal F. 125. The Article appears with the permission of the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Stephanie Francis Ward |
#Attention |
102-DEC ABA Journal 28 (December, 2016) |
FEW PEOPLE OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA are familiar with intersectionality. But many understand--and embrace--the hashtag #blackgirlsmatter, which is a more descriptive way to point out that some people who experience oppression have multiple social categorizations and frequently are forgotten in social justice movements. The African American Policy Forum,... |
2016 |
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| Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb |
#Sayhername #Blackwomenslivesmatter: State Violence in Policing the Black Female Body |
67 Mercer Law Review 651 (Winter 2016) |
On June 30, 1974, Alberta Williams King was shot and killed in the sanctuary of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia as she played the organ for Sunday morning service. Mrs. King, seventy years old, was the mother of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. News of her death was overshadowed by four Black men: her son, killed six years... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Andrea J. Ritchie |
#Sayhername: Racial Profiling and Police Violence Against Black Women |
41 Harbinger 187 (August 11, 2016) |
As the nation wrestles with the relentless reality of police violence against Black, Brown and Indigenous bodies and the enduring impacts of mass incarceration on individuals, families and communities of color, we also continue to grapple with invisibility and erasure of women's experiences of state violence. In November of 2015, I had the distinct... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Justice Tankebe, Michael D. Reisig, Xia Wang, University of Cambridge, Arizona State University |
A Multidimensional Model of Police Legitimacy: a Cross-cultural Assessment |
40 Law and Human Behavior 11 (February, 2016) |
This study used survey data from cross-sectional, university-based samples of young adults in different cultural settings (i.e., the United States and Ghana) to accomplish 2 main objectives: (1) to construct a 4-dimensional police legitimacy scale, and (2) to assess the relationship that police legitimacy and feelings of obligation to obey the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Khaled A. Beydoun, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law; Affiliated Faculty, University of California, Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project |
America, Islam, and Constitutionalism: Muslim American Poverty and the Mounting Police State |
31 Journal of Law and Religion 279 (November, 2016) |
The Cambridge Companion to American Islam. Edited by Julianne Hammer and Omar Safi. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 386. $34.99 (paper). ISBN: 9780521175524. On the Muslim Question. By Anne Norton. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. Pp. 288. $28.99 (cloth). ISBN: 978-0691157047. What Is an American Muslim? Embracing Faith... |
2016 |
Yes |
| John Rappaport |
An Insurance-based Typology of Police Misconduct |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 369 (2016) |
Not all police misconduct is the same, and different institutional regimes might manage different sorts of misconduct most effectively. This Article surveys the universe of police malfeasance from the perspective of an important but underappreciated regulatory regime: liability insurance. Nearly all but the very largest municipalities buy insurance... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jonathan Witmer-Rich |
Arbitrary Law Enforcement Is Unreasonable: Whren's Failure to Hold Police Accountable for Traffic Enforcement Policies |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1059 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 1059 I. Written Rules Versus Enforcement Practice: Creating the Conditions for Arbitrariness. 1063 II. Arbitrary Law Enforcement Is Unreasonable. 1064 III. Police Accountability for Enforcement Policy. 1066 IV. Pretextual Stops As Entrapment. 1073 V. The False Danger of Fourth Amendment Variability. 1077 VI. Preventing... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jaclyn M. D'Esposito |
Are Officers Equipped to Protect and Serve Their Communities? An Examination into the Militarization of America's Police and Police Legitimacy |
30 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 403 (2016) |
On January 8, 2015, at 3:30 p.m., Officer Matthew Taylor of the Salt Lake City Police Department responded to a call about a suspicious male going door to door with a shovel asking neighbors if he could shovel their property for money. The caller explained that the man's behavior was suspicious because there was not enough snow on the ground to... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Forrest Stuart |
Becoming "Copwise": Policing, Culture, and the Collateral Consequences of Street-level Criminalization |
50 Law and Society Review 279 (June, 2016) |
Over the last four decades, the United States has witnessed a historic expansion of its criminal justice system. This article examines how street-level criminalization transforms the cultural contexts of poor urban communities. Drawing on five years of fieldwork in Los Angeles' Skid Row-the site of one of the most aggressive zero-tolerance policing; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Law and Society Review June, 2016 Article BECOMING COPWISE: POLICING, CULTURE, AND THE COLLATERAL CONSEQUENCES OF STREET-LEVEL CRIMINALIZATION [FNa1... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Anthony A. Braga |
Better Policing Can Improve Legitimacy and Reduce Mass Incarceration |
129 Harvard Law Review Forum 233 (March, 2016) |
Recent events in Ferguson, New York City, Chicago, and elsewhere in the United States have exposed rifts in the relationships between the police and the communities they protect and serve. These incidents have damaged police legitimacy by promoting perceptions among community members that police do not play an appropriate role in making and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jocelyn Simonson |
Beyond Body Cameras: Defending a Robust Right to Record the Police |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1559 (August, 2016) |
This symposium Article articulates and defends a robust First Amendment right to record the police up to the point that the act of filming presents a concrete, physical impediment to a police officer or public safety. To the extent that courts have identified the constitutional values behind the right to record, they have, for the most part, relied... |
2016 |
Yes |
| M Adams , Max Rameau |
Black Community Control over Police |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 515 (2016) |
The Moment: From Uprising to Organizing. 515 I. Principles & Objectives. 518 II. Analysis. 520 A. Root Issue Versus Surface Issue. 520 B. Domestic Colonies: The Police as an Occupying Force. 521 C. Racial Prejudice Is Not the Problem. 524 1. Individual Racist Police. 524 2. End the Occupation and Shift Power. 525 III. The Proposition. 528 A. A... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Katheryn Russell-Brown |
Body Cameras, Police Violence, and Racial Credibility |
67 Florida Law Review Forum 207 (2016) |
Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes? Iesha Nunes's thoughtful and thorough Note, Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras, asks us to consider how to address the problem of police violence tied to racial profiling. Using the rallying cry at the heart of the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Anta Plowden |
Bringing Balance to the Force: the Militarization of America's Police Force and its Consequences |
71 University of Miami Law Review 281 (Fall, 2016) |
The current trend in the militarization of police can be traced back to the earliest times in our country. We are soon approaching a tipping point in which the combination of aggressive military tactics, wrongful deaths and injuries, and a lack of accountability will lead to an increase in civil unrest and animosity towards those who have sworn to... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David Thacher |
Channeling Police Discretion: the Hidden Potential of Focused Deterrence |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 533 (2016) |
The breadth of the criminal law and the unfettered discretion it creates are among the most significant challenges facing American criminal justice today. These twin problems have a particularly corrosive effect on policing, where they lay the foundations for many of the most prominent flashpoints for community anger, including intensive police... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Austin Spillar |
Chicago Has the Blueprint for Lasting Police Accountability Reform, but Can the City Build the Future it Needs? |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 136 (Spring, 2016) |
Who is policing the police? This has been the question that concerned members of Chicago communities have been asking for many decades, and in many ways, it was a question to which they already knew the answer. Back in 1972, the Metcalfe Report was released by a panel convened by South Side Congressman Robert Metcalfe in response to the death of 70... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jason Tashea |
Clicking for Complaints |
102-FEB ABA Journal 17 (February, 2016) |
Vidya Pappachan, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, had little time to prepare for a client's arraignment on a felony drug charge. But she had a tool at her disposal that allowed her to quickly look up information about the arresting officers. Pappachan asked her paralegal to search for the officers' names through a database; Search Snippet: ...americanbar.org National Pulse CLICKING FOR COMPLAINTS Databases Create Access to Police Misconduct Cases and Offer a Handy Tool for Defense Lawyers... |
2016 |
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| Jonathan M. Smith |
Closing the Gap Between What Is Lawful and What Is Right in Police Use of Force Jurisprudence by Making Police Departments More Democratic Institutions |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 315 (Spring 2016) |
No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. --Union Pacific Railroad Co. v. Botsford I can't breathe. --Eric Garner... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Stephen Rushin |
Competing Case Studies of Structural Reform Litigation in American Police Departments |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 113 (Fall, 2016) |
In 1994, Congress passed 42 U.S.C. § 14141, which gives the U.S. Attorney General the authority to initiate structural reform litigation against police departments engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional misconduct. Since then, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has investigated and reformed dozens of police departments across the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Liane C. Dublinski |
Comprehensive Police Officer Body Camera Guidelines in Illinois |
47 Loyola University Chicago Law Journal 1449 (Summer 2016) |
Following Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri and Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore, Maryland, the public was hungry for answers about what had happened. Both cases involved testimony and evidence that contradicted with the police officer's side of the story. The respective cities in both cases were shaken by angry protests and riots in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Adam D. Franks |
Constitutional Law--fourth Amendment and Seizures--accidental Seizures by Deadly Force: Who Is Seized During a Police Shootout? Plumhoff V. Rickard, 134 S. Ct. 2012 (2014) |
38 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 493 (Spring, 2016) |
[Donald] Rickard, 44, and his live-in girlfriend, Kelly Allen, 44, died July 18 [, 2004,] after West Memphis police chased them into Memphis and shot into their car. . Police found them dead after their car slammed into a North Memphis house. Either the gunshots or the crash could have killed them, the med-cal examiner says. . Even if Rickard did; Search Snippet: ...ACCIDENTAL SEIZURES BY DEADLY FORCE: WHO IS SEIZED DURING A POLICE SHOOTOUT? PLUMHOFF v. RICKARD, 134 S. CT. 2012 (2014) Adam... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Josephine Ross |
Cops on Trial: Did Fourth Amendment Case Law Help George Zimmerman's Claim of Self-defense? |
40 Seattle University Law Review 1 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction: Police Privilege. 1 I. Supreme Court Case Law that Characterizes Police Aggression as Benign. 8 A. Chasing Civilians and Other Nonaggressive Behaviors. 9 B. Supreme Court Tolerance of Racial Profiling. 15 II. The Invisible Hand of the Supreme Court in George Zimmerman's Murder Trial. 20 A. Evidence Presented to Prove; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Seattle University Law Review Fall, 2016 Article COPS ON TRIAL: DID FOURTH AMENDMENT CASE LAW HELP GEORGE ZIMMERMAN'S... |
2016 |
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| Richard Delgado , Jean Stefancic |
Critical Perspectives on Police, Policing, and Mass Incarceration |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 1531 (August, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1532 I. The New Jim Crow on Police and Policing. 1535 II. Imprisoned in a Black-White Paradigm of Race: Recent Scholarship That Fails to Take Account of a Police State. 1536 a. many jim crows: considering the experience of nonblack minority groups. 1537 b. responding to oppression: noticing alignments, crafting... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jeannine Bell , Mona Lynch |
Cross-sectional Challenges: Gender, Race, and Six-person Juries |
46 Seton Hall Law Review 419 (2016) |
After two grand juries failed to indict the police officers that killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner in 2014, our nation has engaged in polarizing discussions about how juries reach their decision. The very legitimacy of our justice system has come into question. Increasingly, deep concerns have been raised regarding the role of race and gender in... |
2016 |
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| Elizabeth J. Andonova |
Cycle of Misconduct: How Chicago Has Repeatedly Failed to Police its Police |
73 National Lawyers Guild Review 65 (Summer, 2016) |
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) has often faced accusations of being dishonest and corrupt. To deal with CPD's bad reputation, numerous mayors and police superintendents created, and later tried to reform, agencies tasked with holding the police department and its staff accountable. None of their efforts have succeeded thus far. Every time an; Search Snippet: ...2016 CYCLE OF MISCONDUCT: HOW CHICAGO HAS REPEATEDLY FAILED TO POLICE ITS POLICE Elizabeth J. Andonova [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by National Lawyers Guild... |
2016 |
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| Sean Janda |
Decision-making During Interrogation: Towards a New Approach for Determining the Propensity of Deceptive Police Techniques to Produce False Confessions |
43 Lincoln Law Review 79 (2015-2016) |
For police officers investigating crimes, interrogations provide an invaluable opportunity both to develop evidence against a suspect and to help the officer understand exactly how the crime unfolded. In fact, interrogations are so important that at least one study has found that the fruit of a successful interrogation a confession is essential to; Search Snippet: ...TOWARDS A NEW APPROACH FOR DETERMINING THE PROPENSITY OF DECEPTIVE POLICE TECHNIQUES TO PRODUCE FALSE CONFESSIONS Sean Janda Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
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| David Weisburd |
Does Hot Spots Policing Inevitably Lead to Unfair and Abusive Police Practices, or Can We Maximize Both Fairness and Effectiveness in the New Proactive Policing? |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 661 (2016) |
Hot spots policing has emerged as one of the most important and widely diffused of what are sometimes termed the new policing strategies. Such strategies were developed in response to a critique of police effectiveness in preventing crime that developed in the late twentieth century. While hot spots policing strategies have been shown to be... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Doubling down on Racial Discrimination: the Racially Disparate Impacts of Crime-based Removals |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 993 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 994 I. Racial Profiling and Contemporary Developments in Crime-Based Removals. 1002 A. The Supreme Court's Authorization of Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement. 1004 1. Whren v. United States. 1005 2. United States v. Brignoni-Ponce. 1007 B. Increased State and Local Involvement in Immigration Enforcement. 1010 1. Section... |
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Down by Law: Police Officers as Gang Sociology Experts |
52 Criminal Law Bulletin 7 (2916) |
J.D. Candidate, 2015, University of San Francisco School of Law. The author wishes to extend her deepest gratitude to Professor Steven F. Shatz, Philip & Muriel Barnett Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law, for his invaluable guidance and input during the preparation of this comment. Thank you also to Maxine Weksler, Appellate; Search Snippet: ...Issue 4 Summer 2016 Criminal Law Bulletin Down By Law: Police Officers as Gang Sociology Experts Magdalena Ridley[ * Introduction... |
2016 |
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