| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Marvin Zalman , Matthew Larson |
Elephants in the Station House: Serial Crimes, Wrongful Convictions, and Expanding Wrongful Conviction Analysis to Include Police Investigation |
79 Albany Law Review 941 (2015-2016) |
In this article we advocate that the study of miscarriages of justice be expanded to view the entirety of police crime investigation as a source of wrongful convictions. We set this proposal in a framework of how the inductive innocence paradigm was developed and analyze how the term causation is used in legal, scientific and case analysis. We... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Eric J. Miller |
Encountering Resistance: Contesting Policing and Procedural Justice |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 295 (2016) |
[A] free government . [is that] wherin they who are greatest . are not elevated above their brethren . [and] walk the streets as other men, may be spoken to freely, familiarly, friendly, without adoration. Police officers are executive agents empowered by the state to use physical force to coerce recalcitrant individuals to comply with public laws... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Charles R. Epp, School of Public Affairs and Administration, University of Kansas |
Enforcing Order: an Ethnography of Urban Policing. By Didier Fassin. Cambridge, Uk: Polity Press, 2013. 320 Pp. $69.95 Cloth, $29.95 Paper |
50 Law and Society Review 256 (March, 2016) |
This fascinating book examines the punitive French police practices that triggered widespread rioting in French cities in 2005. Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted at the time of those rebellions, the analysis reveals how police officers justified their practices and why the people subjected to these practices so deeply resented... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David B. Rabbani |
Enhancing the Community Relations Service Arsenal: a Restorative Justice Solution for Community Conflicts with Local Law Enforcement That Have a Race-relations Basis |
17 Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution 567 (Winter 2016) |
People, I just want to say . . . can we all get along? Rodney King There have been several police-related incidents in recent years that many believe to be connected to race-relations issues. Perhaps the most infamous on both a national and international level is the police shooting of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on... |
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| Joshua Chanin |
Evaluating Section 14141: an Empirical Review of Pattern or Practice Police Misconduct Reform |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 67 (Fall, 2016) |
Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Act of 1994 fundamentally restructures the regulation of police behavior in the United States. Since the law's passage, dozens of police departments have undergone lengthy and complex reforms designed to eliminate a pattern or practice of misconduct. Despite the program's wide application, neither scholars nor... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Tyler Adams |
Factors in Police Misconduct Arbitration Outcomes: What Does it Take to Fire a Bad Cop? |
32 ABA Journal of Labor & Employment Law 133 (Fall, 2016) |
Anecdotal evidence can easily be generated from many . jurisdictions to illustrate the fact that disciplinary actions, grounded in conduct which chiefs of police and presumably the public at large would find simply unacceptable, are often overturned by arbitrators. Disciplinary procedures for police officers across the country have been a source... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael D. White , Henry F. Fradella , Weston J. Morrow , Doug Mellom |
Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: a Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-frisk Activities in New York City |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law L. 9 (Fall, 2016) |
Stop-and-frisk has emerged as a popular crime control tactic in American policing. Though stop-and-frisk has a long, established legal history, the recent experiences in many jurisdictions demonstrate a strong disconnect between principle and practice. Arguably, stop-and-frisk has become the next iteration of a persistent undercurrent in racial... |
2016 |
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| Michael D. White , Henry F. Fradella , Weston J. Morrow , Doug Mellom |
Federal Civil Litigation as an Instrument of Police Reform: a Natural Experiment Exploring the Effects of the Floyd Ruling on Stop-and-frisk Activities in New York City |
14 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 9 (Fall, 2016) |
Stop-and-frisk has emerged as a popular crime control tactic in American policing. Though stop-and-frisk has a long, established legal history, the recent experiences in many jurisdictions demonstrate a strong disconnect between principle and practice. Arguably, stop-and-frisk has become the next iteration of a persistent undercurrent in racial; Search Snippet: ...Donald A. Dripps FEDERAL CIVIL LITIGATION AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLICE REFORM: A NATURAL EXPERIMENT EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF THE FLOYD... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Joëlle Anne Moreno |
Flagrant Police Abuse: Why Black Lives (Also) Matter to the Fourth Amendment |
21 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 36 (Fall, 2016) |
Constitutional rights pivot on problems of proof. But traditional academic distinctions between procedural rules of evidence and substantive questions of constitutional law impede our understanding of how law works. In particular, how law works to identify, constrain, and remedy police abuse of constitutional rights. Treating rights and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Erik Nielsen |
Fourth Amendment Implications of Police-worn Body Cameras |
48 Saint Mary's Law Journal 115 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 115 II. Background. 120 A. The Fourth Amendment in General. 120 B. Video Surveillance and the Use of Pole Cameras. 129 III. Analysis. 133 A. Reasonable Expectation of Privacy and Body Camera Use. 133 B. Common Law Trespass Standard and Body Camera Use. 135 C. Legislative Response. 137 IV. Conclusion. 140 |
2016 |
Yes |
| Stephen E. Henderson |
Fourth Amendment Time Machines (And What They Might Say about Police Body Cameras) |
18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 933 (February, 2016) |
When it comes to criminal investigation, time travel is increasingly possible. Despite longstanding roots in traditional investigation, science is today providing something fundamentally different in the form of remarkably complete digital records. And those big data records not only store our past, but thanks to data mining they are in many; Search Snippet: ...FOURTH AMENDMENT TIME MACHINES (AND WHAT THEY MIGHT SAY ABOUT POLICE BODY CAMERAS) Stephen E. Henderson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 The... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
From Edward to Eric Garner and Beyond: the Importance of Constitutional Limitations on Lethal Use of Force in Police Reform |
12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy 53 (Fall, 2016) |
One fateful October evening in 1974, two police officers were dispatched to a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee, in response to a call about the burglary of an unoccupied house. Upon arriving at the scene, the police spotted a black fifteen-year-old boy running from the back of the house toward a fence in the back yard. The boy, Edward Garner, was... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Bill Ong Hing |
From Ferguson to Palestine: Disrupting Race-based Policing |
59 Howard Law Journal 559 (Spring 2016) |
INTRODUCTION. 560 I. HOW DID WE GET HERE?. 566 A. Racism - Driving While Black. 566 B. War on Drugs. 569 C. 9/11- Urban Areas Security Initiative/Urban Shield. 571 D. Broken Windows - Zero Tolerance/Stop and Frisk. 574 II. WHAT HAS BEEN THE RESPONSE?. 578 III. PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE. 584 A. Procedural Ideas. 585 1. Curtailment of sales of military... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kyle J. Jacob |
From Garner to Graham and Beyond: Police Liability for Use of Deadly Force - Ferguson Case Study |
91 Chicago-Kent Law Review 325 (2016) |
At approximately noon on Saturday, August 9, 2014, an unarmed black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri. The details of the shooting have been widely disputed. Some believe that the officer was jumped, beaten, and overpowered and resorted to the only measure he had available to defend... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Camille A. Nelson |
Frontlines: Policing at the Nexus of Race and Mental Health |
43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 615 (April, 2016) |
The last several years have rendered issues at the intersection of race, mental health, and policing more acute. The frequency and violent, often lethal, nature of these incidents is forcing a national conversation about matters which many people would rather cast aside as volatile, controversial, or as simply irrelevant to conversations about the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Udi Ofer |
Getting it Right: Building Effective Civilian Review Boards to Oversee Police |
46 Seton Hall Law Review 1033 (2016) |
I. Introduction. 1033 II. Overview of Civilian Review Boards. 1039 A. History of Civilian Review Board. 1040 B. Civilian Review in the Nation's Top Fifty Police Departments. 1041 III. Key Components of Effective Civilian Review. 1043 A. Board Majority Nominated by Civic Organizations. 1044 B. Broad Scope to Review Complaints. 1045 C. Independent... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lawrence Rosenthal |
Good and Bad Ways to Address Police Violence |
48 Urban Lawyer 675 (Fall, 2016) |
[T]here is always a well-known solution to every human problem: neat, plausible, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices Second Series 158 (1921) Scholars have long been concerned about the prevalence of unlawful police violence against civilians. This has been coupled with a concern that police unfairly target racial minorities, particularly... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Samuel Walker |
Governing the American Police: Wrestling with the Problems of Democracy |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 615 (2016) |
Winston Churchill, the famed Prime Minister of England, once observed that it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Churchill's trenchant remark well states the problem of governing the police in the United States. For many decades, and not simply in the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael L. Perlin, Esq. , Alison J. Lynch, Esq. |
Had to Be Held down by Big Police: a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective on Interactions Between Police and Persons with Mental Disabilities |
43 Fordham Urban Law Journal 685 (April, 2016) |
Introduction. 685 I. Current State of Affairs. 696 II. Therapeutic Jurisprudence. 701 A. What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?. 701 B. Therapeutic Jurisprudence Implications of Police Decision-Making. 703 III. Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Policing, and the Significance of Counsel. 704 Conclusion. 709; Search Snippet: ...Urban Environment Article HAD TO BE HELD DOWN BY BIG POLICE : A THERAPEUTIC JURISPRUDENCE PERSPECTIVE ON INTERACTIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND PERSONS WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES Michael L. Perlin, Esq. [FNa1... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Elliott Riebman |
How and Why a Code of Silence Between State's Attorneys and Police Officers Resulted in Unprosecuted Torture |
9 DePaul Journal for Social Justice Just. 1 (Summer, 2016) |
Beginning in the early 1970s, and spanning two decades, more than 110 African American suspects were systematically tortured by fifteen Chicago police officers all of whom were white. Lieutenant Jon Burge was the commanding officer of all of the perpetrators. Although these officers were protected from prosecution by the code of silence, the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Elliott Riebman |
How and Why a Code of Silence Between State's Attorneys and Police Officers Resulted in Unprosecuted Torture |
9 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2016) |
Beginning in the early 1970s, and spanning two decades, more than 110 African American suspects were systematically tortured by fifteen Chicago police officers all of whom were white. Lieutenant Jon Burge was the commanding officer of all of the perpetrators. Although these officers were protected from prosecution by the code of silence, the; Search Snippet: ...AND WHY A CODE OF SILENCE BETWEEN STATE'S ATTORNEYS AND POLICE OFFICERS RESULTED IN UNPROSECUTED TORTURE Elliott Riebman Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kate Levine |
How We Prosecute the Police |
104 Georgetown Law Journal 745 (April, 2016) |
Police brutality is at the center of a growing national conversation on state power, race, and our problematic law enforcement culture. Focus on police conduct, in particular when and whether it should be criminal, is on the minds of scholars and political actors like never before. Yet this new focus has brought up a host of undertheorized... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Hannah Dunn |
Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse--unless You're a Cop |
49 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 551 (2016) |
Most are familiar with the Roman-originated maxim ignorantia juris non excusat--which, roughly translated, means ignorance of the law is no excuse. Courts generally follow this concept, codified in Section 2.02(9) of the Model Penal Code, which provides, knowledge of the law defining the offense is not itself an element of the offense. Yet a; Search Snippet: ...IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSE--UNLESS YOU'RE A COP Hannah Dunn [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by Loyola Law School Los... |
2016 |
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| Roger Goldman |
Importance of State Law in Police Reform |
60 Saint Louis University Law Journal 563 (Spring 2016) |
Citizens, judges, and scholars alike concerned about police misconduct traditionally believe that the federal, rather than state or local, government is best able to bring about police reform. Generations of law students have been taught that virtually the only way effectively to control the police is by excluding evidence in the possession of a... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Roger Goldman |
Importance of State Law in Police Reform |
60 Saint Louis University Law Journal 363 (Spring 2016) |
Citizens, judges, and scholars alike concerned about police misconduct traditionally believe that the federal, rather than state or local, government is best able to bring about police reform. Generations of law students have been taught that virtually the only way effectively to control the police is by excluding evidence in the possession of a; Search Snippet: ...Spring 2016 Teaching Criminal Procedure IMPORTANCE OF STATE LAW IN POLICE REFORM Roger Goldman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 Saint Louis University... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Ian Loader |
In Search of Civic Policing: Recasting the 'Peelian' Principles |
10 Criminal Law and Philosophy 427 (September, 2016) |
Published online: 30 May 2014 For over a century the so-called Peelian principles have been central to the self-understanding of Anglo-American policing. But these principles are the product of modern state-building and speak only partially to the challenges of urban policing today. In fact, they stand in the way of clear thinking and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Tal Jonathan-Zamir , Badi Hasisi , Yoram Margalioth |
Is it the What or the How? The Roles of High-policing Tactics and Procedural Justice in Predicting Perceptions of Hostile Treatment: the Case of Security Checks at Ben-gurion Airport, Israel |
50 Law and Society Review 608 (September, 2016) |
What affects perceptions of hostile treatment by police, characterized by feelings such as humiliation and intimidation? Is it what the police do to the citizen, or is it about how they do it? The important effects of procedural justice are well documented in the policing literature. Yet, it is not clear how high-policing tactics, coupled with; Search Snippet: ...IT THE WHAT OR THE HOW? THE ROLES OF HIGH- POLICING TACTICS AND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE IN PREDICTING PERCEPTIONS OF HOSTILE TREATMENT... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Rick Trinkner, Tom R. Tyler, Phillip Atiba Goff, Yale University, University of California Los Angeles and Harvard Kennedy School |
Justice from Within: the Relations Between a Procedurally Just Organizational Climate and Police Organizational Efficiency, Endorsement of Democratic Policing, and Officer Well-being |
22 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 158 (May, 2016) |
Recent clashes between law enforcement and the public have led to increased attention on policing strategies that build trust and motivate cooperation in communities through the application of fair procedures and decision-making. A growing body of policing research has highlighted that officers commonly report working within police departments that; Search Snippet: ...WITHIN: THE RELATIONS BETWEEN A PROCEDURALLY JUST ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE AND POLICE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFICIENCY, ENDORSEMENT OF DEMOCRATIC POLICING, AND OFFICER WELL-BEING [FNa1] Rick Trinkner Tom R. Tyler... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kathryne M. Young , Joan Petersilia |
Keeping Track: Surveillance, Control, and the Expansion of the Carceral State Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. By Charles R. Epp, Steven Maynard-moody & Donald Haider-markel. Chicago; University of Chicago Press. 2014. Pp. Xvii, |
129 Harvard Law Review 1318 (March, 2016) |
After decades as a divisive political touchstone, American criminal justice is now characterized by widespread, bipartisan agreement that the system is broken in significant ways. The Brennan Center recently published a report in which many of the 2016 presidential candidates outlined their reform ideas on crime, policing, and incarceration. In... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Matthew Long, Laurence Alison, Ricardo Tejeiro, Emma Hendricks, Susan Giles, Kent Police, Maidstone, United Kingdom, University of Liverpool, Kent Police, Maidstone, United Kingdom, University of Liverpool |
Kirat: Law Enforcement's Prioritization Tool for Investigating Indecent Image Offenders |
22 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 12 (February, 2016) |
The proliferation of indecent images of children (IIOCs) on the Internet has exceeded the resources required to investigate suspects effectively. This article examines the validity of the Kent Internet Risk Assessment Tool-- Version 2 (KIRAT- 2), an evidence-based framework for prioritizing IIOC suspects according to their risk of committing; Search Snippet: ...and index offense. Sociodemographic data included personal details (age, sex, race/ethnicity, nationality, country of residence, police force that owned the case), socioeconomic status (income, occupation, education... |
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| Norm Stamper |
Legitimate Community Policing: How Citizen Participation Creates a Successful and Collaborative Enterprise |
42 Human Rights 10 (2016) |
Community policing is a fiction, existing in name only. If substantive community policing were the norm across the country, if America's police officers had internalized community policing's original values, principles, and practices, the institution would not be embroiled in never-ending controversy. In fact, it's reasonable to ask whether so... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Aziz Z. Huq , Richard H. McAdams |
Litigating the Blue Wall of Silence: How to Challenge the Police Privilege to Delay Investigation |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 213 (2016) |
Under state law, municipal codes, and collective bargaining agreements, police officers in many jurisdictions benefit from a set of heightened procedural protections. These frequently include provisions restricting the timing and manner by which investigators interview or interrogate police, which we call interrogation buffers. One specific... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kara Dansky |
Local Democratic Oversight of Police Militarization |
10 Harvard Law & Policy Review 59 (Winter, 2016) |
Many Americans were shocked when, in November 2014, law enforcement agencies in Ferguson, Missouri responded to local protests with what appeared to be tanks, assault rifles, and officers dressed like soldiers. Michael Brown (a black, unarmed, eighteen-year-old preparing for college) had been shot to death by a white police officer, and it had just... |
2016 |
Yes |
| André Douglas Pond Cummings |
Lord Forgive Me, but He Tried to Kill Me: Proposing Solutions to the United States' Most Vexing Racial Challenges |
23 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Just. 3 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 4 II. Our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 8 A. Police Killing of Unarmed Black Men. 10 B. Racially Disparate Mass Incarceration. 13 C. Violent Homicide of African American Young Men and Boys. 18 III. Proposing Solutions to our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 23 A. Ending the Police... |
2016 |
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| André Douglas Pond Cummings |
Lord Forgive Me, but He Tried to Kill Me: Proposing Solutions to the United States' Most Vexing Racial Challenges |
23 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 3 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 4 II. Our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 8 A. Police Killing of Unarmed Black Men. 10 B. Racially Disparate Mass Incarceration. 13 C. Violent Homicide of African American Young Men and Boys. 18 III. Proposing Solutions to our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 23 A. Ending the Police; Search Snippet: ...be hard-pressed to name a more divisive and challenging racial issue facing America today than the police killing of unarmed black men. With the recent deaths of... |
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| Cynthia Lee |
Making Black and Brown Lives Matter: Incorporating Race into the Criminal Procedure Curriculum |
60 Saint Louis University Law Journal 481 (Spring 2016) |
The fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an African American teenager, in August 2014 by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the death of Eric Garner, an African American man who died after being put into a chokehold by a New York City police officer in July 2014, led to a firestorm of protests under the moniker of Black Lives Matter.... |
2016 |
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| Jasmine Sankofa |
Mapping the Blank: Centering Black Women's Vulnerability to Police Sexual Violence to Upend Mainstream Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal 651 (Spring 2016) |
652 INTRODUCTION. 652 I. RACE AND POLICING. 658 II. RACE AND STRUCTURAL SEXUAL VIOLENCE. 666 A. Police Sexual Violence. 666 B. A Brief History of Sexualized Racial Terror Against Black Women. 673 III. ADVANCING JUSTICE: BROADENING THE SCOPE OF PROPOSED INTERVENTIONS. 683 A. Divesting From Law Enforcement. 683 B. Building Survivor Support.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lorraine Hope, David Blocksidge, Fiona Gabbert, James D. Sauer, William Lewinski, Arta Mirashi, Emel Atuk, University of Portsmouth, Metropolitan Police, London, United Kingdom, Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Tasmania, Force Science, Mank |
Memory and the Operational Witness: Police Officer Recall of Firearms Encounters as a Function of Active Response Role |
40 Law and Human Behavior 23 (February, 2016) |
Investigations after critical events often depend on accurate and detailed recall accounts from operational witnesses (e.g., law enforcement officers, military personnel, and emergency responders). However, the challenging, and often stressful, nature of such events, together with the cognitive demands imposed on operational witnesses as a function... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Edward A. Flynn |
Miranda and the Evolution of Policing |
10 Harvard Law & Policy Review 101 (Winter, 2016) |
Fifty years after the landmark Miranda v. Arizona decision by the United States Supreme Court, one can safely wonder how much progress has been made by the American criminal justice system generally, and American policing specifically. Each generation of our nation's police officers is better selected, better trained, and better equipped than the... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Donald F. Tibbs |
Of Law and Black Lives, 50 Years Later: Race and Policing in the Aftermath of the Moynihan Report |
8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 85 (Spring, 2016) |
There is a quest for the Negro, the Negro is in demand, one cannot get along without him, he is needed, but only if he is made palatable in a certain way. Frantz Fanon America is free to choose whether the Negro shall remain her liability or become her opportunity. Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma The title of the Journal's Symposium, The 50... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Whitney Bly Edwards |
Officers Without Borders: Georgia Court of Appeals Expands Campus Police Jurisdiction and Authority in State V. Zilke |
67 Mercer Law Review 769 (Winter 2016) |
The deaths of Black men at the hands of law enforcement officers--or vigilantes, as in the case of George Zimmerman--have received consistent and sustained media attention in the United States in recent years. The primary incidents on which the media focused occurred in several geographic regions, indicating that the problem was not concentrated in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| David B. Oppenheimer, Swati Prakash, Rachel Burns |
Playing the Trump Card: the Enduring Legacy of Racism in Immigration Law |
26 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal L.J. 1 (2016) |
Introduction. 1 I. European Immigration and American Immigration Policy. 6 A. Early American Demographics and Immigration Policy. 6 B. Irish Immigration. 7 C. Eastern European Jewish Immigration. 11 D. Italian Immigration. 14 E. Early Twentieth-Century Changes to Immigration Policy. 17 II. Chinese and Japanese Immigration and American Immigration... |
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| Barak Ariel |
Police Body Cameras in Large Police Departments |
106 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 729 (Fall, 2016) |
Body Worn Cameras are spreading worldwide, under the assumption that police performance, conduct, accountability, and legitimacy, in the eyes of the public, are enhanced as a result of using these devices. In addition, suspects' demeanor during police-public engagements is hypothesized to change as a result of the video-recording of the encounter.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Richard Lin |
Police Body Worn Cameras and Privacy: Retaining Benefits While Reducing Public Concerns |
14 Duke Law & Technology Review 346 (September 12, 2016) |
Recent high-profile incidents of police misconduct have led to calls for increased police accountability. One proposed reform is to equip police officers with body worn cameras, which provide more reliable evidence than eyewitness accounts. However, such cameras may pose privacy concerns for individuals who are recorded, as the footage may fall; Search Snippet: ...AND TECHNOLOGY REVIEW Duke Law & Technology Review September 12, 2016 POLICE BODY WORN CAMERAS AND PRIVACY: RETAINING BENEFITS WHILE REDUCING PUBLIC... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Chris Pagliarella |
Police Body-worn Camera Footage: a Question of Access |
34 Yale Law and Policy Review 533 (Spring 2016) |
When President Obama closed 2014 by requesting $263 million to support the deployment of 50,000 body-worn cameras (or BWCs) for state officers, he was endorsing an idea whose time had come. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner provided names and faces to a growing call for police accountability that would eventually develop into the broader... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kyle J. Maury |
Police Body-worn Camera Policy: Balancing the Tension Between Privacy and Public Access in State Laws |
92 Notre Dame Law Review 479 (November, 2016) |
The system failed us again. The sounds of gunshots and broken glass swirled in air full of smoke and tear gas. On November 24, 2014, the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, erupted into a new wave of anger after a St. Louis grand jury refused to indict Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot unarmed teenager Michael Brown a few months prior. On... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Julian A. Cook, III |
Police Culture in the Twenty-first Century: a Critique of the President's Task Force's Final Report |
91 Notre Dame Law Review Online 106 (February, 2016) |
[A] lot of our work is going to involve local police chiefs, local elected officials, states recognizing that the moment is now for us to make these changes. We have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations so that everybody feels safer and our law... |
2016 |
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| Tom Tyler |
Police Discretion in the 21st Century Surveillance State |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 579 (2016) |
This analysis discusses changes in policing that could help build popular legitimacy, i.e. public trust and confidence in the police. The low level of public trust, especially in minority communities, has been the focus of recent national attention in the wake of a series of deaths during public contact with the police. This analysis will focus on... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jeff Adachi |
Police Militarization and the War on Citizens |
42 Human Rights 14 (2016) |
When the Super Bowl rumbled into town earlier this year, our city greeted it--in true San Francisco fashion--with a weeklong party. Only this bash had rooftop snipers with assault rifles trained at revelers, hundreds of helmeted riot cops surrounding protesters, and surveillance technology reading everything from your license plate to your Twitter... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Cara E. Trombadore |
Police Officer Sexual Misconduct: an Urgent Call to Action in a Context Disproportionately Threatening Women of Color |
32 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 153 (Spring, 2016) |
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution. --Albert Einstein Who are they going to call? It's the police who are abusing them. --Penny Harrington, former police chief On June 17, 2014, Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw questioned a young black teenager and learned that she had an outstanding arrest warrant... |
2016 |
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