| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| K. Babe Howell |
The Costs of "Broken Windows" Policing: Twenty Years and Counting |
37 Cardozo Law Review 1059 (February, 2016) |
Over twenty years ago, in 1994, I started my career as a public defender, as Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner William Bratton transformed New York City policing based on the Broken Windows theory (Broken Windows). I watched Broken Windows transform the criminal justice system, but it was not really Broken Windows. It was... |
2016 |
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| Donna Lieberman , Kara Dansky |
The Degradation of Civil Society and Hyper-aggressive Policing in Communities of Color in New York City |
37 Cardozo Law Review 955 (February, 2016) |
Their safety was in schools, portfolios, and skyscrapers. Ours was in men with guns who could only view us with the same contempt as the society that sent them. Introduction. 956 I. Crime Trends in New York City. 957 II. Ways of Keeping Communities Safe. 959 III. The Degradation of Communities of Color in New York City and the Introduction of... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Charles F. Sabel, William H. Simon |
The Duty of Responsible Administration and the Problem of Police Accountability |
33 Yale Journal on Regulation 165 (Winter 2016) |
Many contemporary civil rights claims arise from institutional activity that, while troubling, is neither malicious nor egregiously reckless. When lawmakers find themselves unable to produce substantive rules for such activity, they often turn to regulating the actors' exercise of discretion. The consequence is an emerging duty of responsible... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kermit V. Lipez |
The First Amendment and the Police in the Digital Age |
17 Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 193 (Fall, 2016) |
In almost thirty-two years as a judge, I have written over 1300 opinions. Each of these opinions was important to the parties involved, yet some have gained more prominence than others. This essay addresses one of those--a 2011 decision that involves the First Amendment, the complex relationship between the police and the communities that they... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Nnennaya Amuchie |
The Forgotten Victims How Racialized Gender Stereotypes Lead to Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls: Incorporating an Analysis of Police Violence into Feminist Jurisprudence and Community Activism |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 617 (Spring, 2016) |
For all the Black girls and women who never had a chance to live in a world free from violence. --Nnennaya Amuchie Last year, thousands of young people gathered around the world in solidarity with Ferguson, Missouri, after police officers killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old Black teenager. Following Michael Brown's death, police officers... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jeffrey S. Adler |
The Greatest Thrill I Get Is When I Hear a Criminal Say, 'Yes, I Did It': Race and the Third Degree in New Orleans, 1920-1945 |
34 Law and History Review Rev. 1 (February, 2016) |
On May 11, 1938, two New Orleans policemen entered the Astoria Restaurant, marched to the kitchen, and approached Loyd D. T. Washington, a 41-year-old African American cook. They informed Washington that they would be taking him. to the First Precinct station for questioning, although they assured the cook that he need not change his clothes and... |
2016 |
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| Judge Shira A. Scheindlin |
The Impact of Race and Policing--past, Present, and Future |
25 National Black Law Journal L.J. 1 (2016) |
This article is drawn from a keynote address I gave at the UCLA School of Law's October 2015 Critical Race Studies Symposium, Race and Resistance: Against Police Violence. I was asked to speak because of the 2013 opinion I authored in Floyd v. City of New York, a landmark decision ending New York City's unconstitutional practice of stop and frisk... |
2016 |
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| Judge Shira A. Scheindlin |
The Impact of Race and Policing--past, Present, and Future |
25 National Black Law Journal 1 (2016) |
This article is drawn from a keynote address I gave at the UCLA School of Law's October 2015 Critical Race Studies Symposium, Race and Resistance: Against Police Violence. I was asked to speak because of the 2013 opinion I authored in Floyd v. City of New York, a landmark decision ending New York City's unconstitutional practice of stop and frisk; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL National Black Law Journal 2016 Article THE IMPACT OF RACE AND POLICING--PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Judge Shira A. Scheindlin [FNa1] Copyright... |
2016 |
Yes |
| New England Journal on Criminal, Civil Confinement |
The Intersection of Racial Justice and Criminal Justice in Massachusetts: Interview with Rahsaan Hall |
42 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 39 (Winter 2016) |
At a time when scores of impassioned debates at the intersection of criminal justice and racial discrimination are ringing throughout the United States, civil rights attorney Rahsaan Hall has taken an emboldened lead in local reform efforts as Director of American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts' Racial Justice Program. Attorney Hall has... |
2016 |
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| G. Flint Taylor |
The Long Path to Reparations for the Survivors of Chicago Police Torture |
11 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 330 (Spring, 2016) |
In the early 1970s, a Chicago police detective named Jon Burge began a nearly twenty-year reign of police terror that was visited upon more than 120 almost exclusively African-American men who were interrogated at police stations on the South and West sides of Chicago. Burge, working with a unit of white detectives who came to be known as the... |
2016 |
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| Ikedi O. Onyemaobim |
The Michael Brown Legacy: Police Brutality and Minority Prosecution |
26 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 157 (Spring, 2016) |
I know the police cause you trouble They cause trouble everywhere But when you die and go to heaven You find no policeman there. --Woody Guthrie On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year-old, unarmed African-American teenager, was shot and killed in Ferguson, Missouri by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. The shooting led to protests against... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Samuel Goldsmith |
The Misguided Constitutionalization of the Enabled Police Force |
8 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 191 (Spring, 2016) |
Criminal law grants law enforcement freedom to act, allowing police to make up a detrimental, sometimes constant force in many racial minorities' lives. Racial minorities experience disparate impact in every stage of the criminal justice system, from the police on the streets, to the prosecutor's office, and to the courtroom. This racial impact is... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth E. Joh |
The New Surveillance Discretion: Automated Suspicion, Big Data, and Policing |
10 Harvard Law & Policy Review 15 (Winter, 2016) |
In a crime analytics bureau, a police officer logs in to see what alerts have been posted by social media software designed to spot potential threats within the billions of daily online tweets, pins, likes, and posts. On the street, a police officer uses his body-worn camera to scan a crowd; the feed is sent in real time back to the department... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Michael Greenberger |
The Only Reliable Way to Rebuild Police-community Relations: the Justice Department Pattern and Practice Consent Decrees |
16 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 201 (Fall, 2016) |
Over an almost three-year period police community relations nationwide have deteriorated to a seeming point of no return. Beginning in Ferguson, Missouri in May, 2014, police shootings and other police malpractices have led to the deaths of unarmed inner city minority civilians, across the country. The deaths of these individuals have resulted in a... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Nathan Witkin |
The Police-community Partnership: Civilian Oversight as an Evaluation Tool for Community Policing |
18 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 181 (2016) |
I. 182 II. Introduction. 182 III. The Powers and Limitations of the Citizen Review Board. 184 A. The Current Model of Civilian Oversight. 185 B. Problems with the Criminal Process Model of Civilian Oversight. 188 1. The Lack of Investigative Resources. 188 2. The Unqualified Citizen. 189 3. The Limited Powers of the Citizen Review Board.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| William J. Bratton |
The Practice of Policing; Evolution in the Police Profession |
22 CITYLAW 121 (November/December, 2016) |
(Adapted from remarks given at a CityLaw Breakfast on October 7, 2016) Today, I would like to talk to you about the practice of policing over the last fifty years, not only in this city, but this country. New York City can rightfully claim to be the safest large city in America and, I would argue, probably one of the safest large cities in the; Search Snippet: ...7664843 CITYLAW November/December, 2016 THE PRACTICE OF POLICING; EVOLUTION IN THE POLICE PROFESSION William J. Bratton [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 by... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Fanna Gamal |
The Racial Politics of Protection: a Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization |
104 California Law Review 979 (August, 2016) |
Across the country, police departments are using aggressive, military-style tactics and weapons to enforce the law. More recently, the state of police militarization displayed in cities like Ferguson and Baltimore raises deep questions about the ethics of paramilitary policing and its consequences for minority citizenship and inclusion. This Note... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Paul Heaton, Priscillia Hunt, John MacDonald, Jessica Saunders, University of Pennsylvania, RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania, RAND Corporation |
The Short- and Long-run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police |
59 Journal of Law & Economics 889 (November, 2016) |
Over a million people in the United States are employed in private security and law enforcement, yet very little is known about the effects of private police on crime. The current study examines the relationship between a privately funded university police force and crime in a large US city. Following an expansion of the jurisdictional boundary of... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Katherine Beckett |
The Uses and Abuses of Police Discretion: Toward Harm Reduction Policing |
10 Harvard Law & Policy Review 77 (Winter, 2016) |
Although discretion is an unavoidable and ubiquitous feature of police work, it is also the subject of significant controversy and debate. In this essay, I first provide a brief overview of the history and evolution of police discretion from the 1960s to today and explain how its exercise has been impacted in recent decades by the war on drugs and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Mallory Meads |
The War Against Ourselves: Heien V. North Carolina, the War on Drugs, and Police Militarization |
70 University of Miami Law Review 615 (Winter, 2016) |
Approximately fifty years ago, America declared a war against itself--the War on Drugs. Since then, our local and state police, armed with military weapons and federal funding, have fought tirelessly against public enemy number one-- drugs. Not surprisingly, this war has created an atmosphere where it is now common to see police officers... |
2016 |
Yes |
| John G. Malcolm |
The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone less Safe, by Heather Mac Donald |
17 Federalist Society Review 68 (October, 2016) |
Note from the Editor: This book review supports the basic contentions of Heather Mac Donald's controversial book about crime and policing, while criticizing its tone and some of its assumptions. The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public policy matters. Any expressions of opinion are those of the author. Whenever we; Search Snippet: ...Federalist Society Review October, 2016 Book Review THE WAR ON COPS: HOW THE NEW ATTACK ON LAW AND ORDER MAKES EVERYONE... |
2016 |
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| Jonathan Blanks |
Thin Blue Lies: How Pretextual Stops Undermine Police Legitimacy |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 931 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 931 I. The Role of Police Legitimacy. 932 II. The Social Impacts of Pretextual Stops. 933 III. Pretextual Stops Rest on Legal Fictions. 935 IV. Procedural Justice as Legitimacy Tool. 937 V. The Pretextual Stop is a Dishonest Practice Incompatible with Procedural Justice. 940 VI. Changing Institutional Incentives. 942 VII.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Hallie Ryan, Jon Greenbaum |
Through the Technology Is New, Police Abuse Is Not |
42 Human Rights 22 (2016) |
This year marks the 25-year anniversary of the beating of Rodney King, an African American man, at the hands of four Los Angeles police officers. The incident created widespread attention because it was caught on videotape by a bystander who sent the recording to a local news station. The acquittal of all four officers sparked riots in Los Angeles... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Jeffrey L. Vagle |
Tightening the Ooda Loop: Police Militarization, Race, and Algorithmic Surveillance |
22 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 101 (Fall, 2016) |
This Article examines how military automated surveillance and intelligence systems and techniques, when used by civilian police departments to enhance predictive policing programs, have reinforced racial bias in policing. I will focus on two facets of this problem. First, I investigate the role played by advanced military technologies and methods... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Monu Bedi |
Toward a Uniform Code of Police Justice |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 13 (2016) |
The recent (and seemingly consistent) news of police abuses has led to significant discussion on how best to curtail this conduct. A common reaction is that we need to do a better job of making sure that officers are subject to appropriate criminal sanctions for their behavior. While espousing a similar refrain, this Article takes a step back and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Sunita Patel |
Toward Democratic Police Reform: a Vision for "Community Engagement" Provisions in Doj Consent Decrees |
51 Wake Forest Law Review 793 (Fall, 2016) |
The shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed Black teenager in Florida, led three Black women to create #BlackLivesMatter. That hashtag has since become synonymous with a movement that condemns police violence and stands for the dignity and value of Black lives. Black Lives Matter has renewed discussion amongst academics, policy makers, think tanks,... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Melvin L. Otey |
Toward Improving Policing in African American Communities |
29 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 67 (Fall, 2016) |
The distressed state of police relations with African American communities has enraptured national and international attention recently. Demonstrations and protests have persisted while pundits and interested parties have debated the matter in public and private spheres. No one can deny that disturbing problems exist, and reasonable people... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Arthur Rizer |
Trading Police for Soldiers: Has the Posse Comitatus Act Helped Militarize Our Police and Set the Stage for More Fergusons? |
16 Nevada Law Journal 467 (Spring 2016) |
Introduction. 468 I. The Posse Comitatus Act. 472 A. The History of Posse Comitatus. 473 1. The Roots of the Act. 473 2. The Forgotten Act. 476 3. The Act Is Reborn. 478 4. The Modern Act. 478 B. Judicial Application of the Act. 479 II. Exceptions and Variations to the Act. 482 A. Homeland Security Act of 2002. 483 B. Insurrection Act. 484 C.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| John T. Cigno |
Truth and Evidence: the Role of Police Officer Body Cameras in Reforming Connecticut's Criminal Justice System |
49 Connecticut Law Review 293 (November, 2016) |
Unresolved animosity between the public and the police has given rise to an Us vs. Them mentality. This divisive mentality perpetuates itself as the public extrapolates anecdotal evidence of misconduct to justify condemnation of the law-enforcement community as a whole. In response, many within that community find themselves entrenched behind a... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Alysha L. Bohanon |
Tweeting the Police: Balancing Free Speech and Decency on Government-sponsored Social Media Pages |
101 Minnesota Law Review 341 (November, 2016) |
Imagine that you are the police chief for a small suburban city in the Midwest. The department is considering launching an official Facebook page, where members of the community can receive updates on police business and new city ordinances, read about crime alerts or big cases solved, and interact with the department through public comments or; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Minnesota Law Review November, 2016 Note TWEETING THE POLICE: BALANCING FREE SPEECH AND DECENCY ON GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED SOCIAL MEDIA... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Otis S. Johnson |
Two Worlds: a Historical Perspective on the Dichotomous Relations Between Police and Black and White Communities |
42 Human Rights Rts. 6 (2016) |
The collective memories and the current views of blacks and whites about their relationship with the police in the United States are very different. Pew Research Center and Gallup polling data have consistently found racial differences in the black and white views of how police deal with minorities. Gallup combined 2011-2014 data showed that blacks... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Otis S. Johnson |
Two Worlds: a Historical Perspective on the Dichotomous Relations Between Police and Black and White Communities |
42 Human Rights 6 (2016) |
The collective memories and the current views of blacks and whites about their relationship with the police in the United States are very different. Pew Research Center and Gallup polling data have consistently found racial differences in the black and white views of how police deal with minorities. Gallup combined 2011-2014 data showed that blacks; Search Snippet: ...TWO WORLDS: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE DICHOTOMOUS RELATIONS BETWEEN POLICE AND BLACK AND WHITE COMMUNITIES Otis S. Johnson [FNa1] Copyright... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Joseph B. Doherty |
Us Vs. Them: the Militarization of American Law Enforcement and the Psychological Effect on Police Officers & Civilians |
25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 415 (Spring 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 416 II. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICA'S DOMESTIC LAW ENFORCEMENT. 417 A. Direct Militarization. 417 B. Indirect Militarization. 423 III. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF MILITARIZATION. 442 IV. REFORM. 445 A. Reduction of SWAT Deployments. 445 B. Reallocation of DHS Grants. 446 C. Elimination of the 1033 Program. 447 D.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Stephen Rushin |
Using Data to Reduce Police Violence |
57 Boston College Law Review 117 (January, 2016) |
Congress passed the Death in Custody Reporting Act in 2014, which created a national database on civilian deaths caused by law enforcement. The Federal Bureau of Investigations and the Bureau of Justice Statistics have subsequently also announced new efforts to collect data on the frequency of deadly encounters between law enforcement and... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Devon W. Carbado, Patrick Rock |
What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence? |
51 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 159 (Winter 2016) |
Introduction. 160 I. How Racial Biases Produce Police Violence. 167 II. How Arrests, System Involvement/Incarceration, Police Insecurity, & Resistance to Authority Produce Police Violence. 173 A. Arrests. 173 B. System Involvement/Incarceration. 174 C. Police Insecurity. 175 1. Social Dominance Threat. 175 2. Physical Safety Threat. 179 3.... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Tiffany R. Murphy |
When Numbers Lie: the Underreporting of Police Justifiable Homicides |
21 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 42 (Spring, 2016) |
The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is tasked with tracking the number of police-involved homicides in a given year. Over a ten-year period, the BJS published the average number of police-involved homicides at 400 annually. However, the BJS's ability to provide accurate information in this area is woefully lacking because; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring, 2016 Article WHEN NUMBERS LIE: THE UNDERREPORTING OF POLICE JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDES Tiffany R. Murphy [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by Regents... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Vivian M. Rivera |
When the Police Get the Law Wrong: How Heien V. North Carolina Further Erodes the Fourth Amendment |
49 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 297 (2016) |
In the midst of nationwide anger and distrust in law enforcement following violent police confrontations around the country, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in Heien v. North Carolina that increases the potential for police overreaching and abuse. In the spring of 2009, two Hispanic males in North Carolina were pulled over by the police for... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Joanna C. Schwartz |
Who Can Police the Police? |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 437 (2016) |
Recent police killings have prompted a national conversation about the need for police reform. Most of the conversation has concerned the types of reforms that might improve policing. Equal consideration should be given to which actors can most effectively pursue these reforms. In this Essay, I suggest three qualities that police reformers need in... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Kate Levine |
Who Shouldn't Prosecute the Police |
101 Iowa Law Review 1447 (May, 2016) |
The job of investigating and prosecuting police officers who commit crimes falls on local prosecutors, as it has in the wake of a number of highly public killings of unarmed African-Americans since Michael Brown died in August 2014. Although prosecutors officially represent the people, there is no group more closely linked to... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Joshua Hegarty, Mitchell Hamline School of Law |
Who Watches the Watchmen? How Prosecutors Fail to Protect Citizens from Police Violence |
37 Mitchell Hamline Law Journal of Public Policy and Practice 305 (Fall, 2016) |
Prosecutors are arguably the most powerful agents of the criminal justice system. It is not an uncommon sentiment expressed within the legal community, whether for law students, practicing attorneys, and former prosecutors, that it is a position for attorneys who play to win. Prosecutors often do win, but in large part, it is because their... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Lewis R. Katz |
Whren at Twenty: Systemic Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 923 (Summer, 2016) |
Street relations between the police and African-American communities have seemingly reached new levels of conflict, or else body cams and cell phones are finally disclosing the extent and truth about such interactions. The Cleveland officers who shot and killed Tamir Rice claimed that they had ordered him three times to drop the realistic toy gun... |
2016 |
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| Roseanna Sommers |
Will Putting Cameras on Police Reduce Polarization? |
125 Yale Law Journal 1304 (March, 2016) |
In the wake of national outrage and polarization over several high-profile police shootings of unarmed citizens, reformers have called for police officers to wear body cameras. This Note argues that, despite the seeming objectivity of the camera, video footage remains susceptible to biased interpretation by observers such as grand jurors. Reporting... |
2016 |
Yes |
| Danielle LaHee |
Youth Perspective: Stop and Frisk: Racial Profiling in Contemporary Urban America |
36 Children's Legal Rights Journal 62 (Spring, 2016) |
Stop and frisk is a policing practice in which an officer initiates the stop of a person based on alleged reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, questions them, and possibly frisks or searches them. Stop-and-frisk policy is frequently associated with New York City, particularly in the wake of Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al., which... |
2016 |
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| Craig B. Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt, Jamie Kalven |
Youth/police Encounters on Chicago's South Side: Acknowledging the Realities |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 125 (2016) |
This paper highlights the critical importance of acknowledging the reality of Black teenagers' experiences with the police. Public conversations about urban police practices tend to exclude the perspectives and experiences of young Black people, the citizens most affected by those practices. The aim of the Youth/Police Project--a collaboration of... |
2016 |
Yes |
| “Jake” James Cullen Evans |
A Criminal Justice System Without Justice: the News Media, Sports Media, & Rap's Influence on Racial Crime Disparities |
5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 117 (Spring, 2015) |
Introduction. 117 I. Avenues of Influence in the American Criminal Justice System. 119 II. The News Media and Racial Stereotypes. 121 A. The Inaccuracy of the News Media's Reporting of Crime. 123 B. The News Media's Effect on Human Behavior and Opinions. 125 III. Contemporary Media and its Effects on Racial Stereotypes. 127 A. The Sports Media and... |
2015 |
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| Cynthia Lee |
A New Approach to Voir Dire on Racial Bias |
5 UC Irvine Law Review 843 (November, 2015) |
Introduction. 843 I. Voir Dire. 847 A. The Process of Voir Dire. 848 B. The Supreme Court's Jurisprudence on Voir Dire into Racial Bias. 852 II. Social Science Research on Race Salience. 860 A. Implicit Bias. 860 B. Race Salience. 861 III. Social Science Research on Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Criminal Justice Policies. 863... |
2015 |
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| Kindaka Sanders |
A Reason to Resist: the Use of Deadly Force in Aiding Victims of Unlawful Police Aggression |
52 San Diego Law Review 695 (August-September 2015) |
I. 695 II. Introduction. 698 III. Background on Defensive Force. 703 IV. Self-Defense as a Constitutional Right. 704 V. Defense of Others. 711 VI. Defense of Relatives as a Constitutional Right. 715 VII. The Use of Deadly Force Against Police Officials. 716 VIII. The Right to Rebel and Defense in Rebellion. 735 IX. Unlawful Police... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Brian Keith Leonard |
An Analysis of the Legal and Practical Implications of the Potential Increased Participation in Jury Service by Racial Minorities in the U.s. Criminal Justice System |
117 West Virginia Law Review 1365 (Spring, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 1366 II. History of Racial Minorities and Jury Service. 1367 A. Juror Qualifications. 1367 B. Jury Selection. 1370 III. Legal and Practical Barriers for Racial and Ethnic Minorities to Jury Service. 1372 A. Voter Registration Records. 1373 B. Juror Questionnaires. 1374 C. Felony Convictions. 1375 D. Lack of Adequate Education,... |
2015 |
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| Decio Coviello, Nicola Persico |
An Economic Analysis of Black-white Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop-and-frisk Program |
44 Journal of Legal Studies 315 (June, 2015) |
We introduce a model to explore the identification of two distinct sources of bias in the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program: the police officer making the stop decisions and the police chief allocating personnel across precincts. We analyze 10 years of data from the stop-and-frisk program in light of this theoretical framework. We... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Kevin W. Bufford |
Appellate Review -- the Split on the Proper Standard of Review for Police Video Evidence -- Scott V. Harris, 550 U.s. 372 (2007). |
39 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 447 (Fall, 2015) |
The recent public outcry in response to police shootings stemming from questionable circumstances of police-citizen encounters across the United States continues to occupy the news. Such unrest gave rise to a conversation concerning whether the implementation of police body cameras in every day policing would alleviate the unnecessary frequency of... |
2015 |
Yes |