| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Jeremy R. Lacks |
The Lone American Dictatorship: How Court Doctrine and Police Culture Limit Judicial Oversight of the Police Use of Deadly Force |
64 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 391 (2008) |
At approximately 8:00 p.m. on October 3, 1997, as plainclothes Philadelphia police officers Thomas Hood and Anthony Swinton patrolled the city in an unmarked police car, they were passed by a Mercury Mystique driving at a high speed in a nontraffic lane. Both officers were relatively new to the job, and it was the first time either officer had been... |
2008 |
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| Kami Chavis Simmons |
The Politics of Policing: Ensuring Stakeholder Collaboration in the Federal Reform of Local Law Enforcement Agencies |
98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 489 (Winter 2008) |
The principle of the sovereignty of the people, which to some extent always underlies nearly all human institutions, is ordinarily wrapped in obscurity. People obey it without recognizing it; if light should chance briefly to fall on it, they are quick to relegate it to the darkness of the sanctuary. Title 42 U.S.C. § 14141 authorizes the United... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Craig B. Futterman, H. Melissa Mather, Melanie Miles |
The Use of Statistical Evidence to Address Police Supervisory and Disciplinary Practices: the Chicago Police Department's Broken System |
1 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 251 (Spring 2008) |
In 2003 and 2004, Diane, a 50-year-old African American school janitor and mother of three, was subjected to multiple acts of abuse by a group of Chicago police officers. These officers were members of an elite tactical team that patrolled public housing on Chicago's South Side. Known to local residents as the Skullcap Crew, they had a reputation; Search Snippet: ...Police Misconduct Series THE USE OF STATISTICAL EVIDENCE TO ADDRESS POLICE SUPERVISORY AND DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES: THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT'S BROKEN SYSTEM Craig B. Futterman H. Melissa Mather Melanie... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Noah Kupferberg |
Transparency: a New Role for Police Consent Decrees |
42 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 129 (Fall, 2008) |
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, strong, bilateral public sentiment against racial profiling by police led to numerous judicial consent decrees designed to prevent profiling. This Note examines three such consent decrees, of varying effectiveness and provenance, governing three major metropolitan police departments over roughly the same time... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Stefanie T. Scott |
Trying to Touch the Untouchables: the Challenges Faced by Texas Plaintiffs Asserting Failure-to-protect Suits Against Police Departments |
27 Review of Litigation 539 (Spring 2008) |
I. Introduction. 540 II. Sovereign Immunity Protects Police Departments Unless the State Has Waived Immunity. 541 A. Sovereign Immunity in Texas: Texas Tort Claims Act. 543 1. The TTCA Guarantees Very Limited Liability. 544 2. Good Faith and Reasonableness Standard. 546 3. Intentional Torts: Exceptions to the Texas Tort Claims Act. 547 B. Accepting... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Dina Mishra |
Undermining Excessive Privacy for Police: Citizen Tape Recording to Check Police Officers' Power |
117 Yale Law Journal 1549 (May, 2008) |
In Jean v. Massachusetts State Police, police officers conducted a warrantless search of Paul Pechonis's home. Unbeknownst to them, the search was audiotaped and videotaped by a nanny-cam. Pechonis later gave the recording to Mary Jean, who posted it on her Web site with commentary criticizing the local District Attorney. The officers claimed; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal May, 2008 Comment UNDERMINING EXCESSIVE PRIVACY FOR POLICE: CITIZEN TAPE RECORDING TO CHECK POLICE OFFICERS' POWER Dina Mishra Copyright (c) 2008 Yale Law Journal... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Kristin Connor |
Updating Brignoni-ponce: a Critical Analysis of Race-based Immigration Enforcement |
11 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 567 (2008) |
Introduction. 568 I. Current Law on the Permissible Use of Race in Immigration Enforcement. 570 A. Search and Seizure Standard for Police Stops. 570 B. Brignoni-Ponce: Reasonable Suspicion and Permissibility of Race as One of Many Factors. 572 C. Martinez-Fuerte: Rejecting Stigmatization Concerns and Allowing Secondary Checkpoint Stops without... |
2008 |
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| Marc McAllister |
What the High Court Giveth the Lower Courts Taketh Away: How to Prevent Undue Scrutiny of Police Officer Motivations Without Eroding Randolph's Heightened Fourth Amendment Protections |
56 Cleveland State Law Review 663 (2008) |
I. Introduction. 664 II. Randolph's Express Limitations of Its Rule. 669 III. The Defendant's Difficult Burden Under Randolph. 671 A. Post-Randolph Courts Require Defendant to Present Evidence that Police Intentionally Removed Him from the Scene. 672 B. Post-Randolph Courts Are Reluctant To Infer Ill Motive. 674 IV. Lawfully Avoiding Objections... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Rachel A. Harmon |
When Is Police Violence Justified? |
102 Northwestern University Law Review 1119 (Summer 2008) |
Introduction. 1119 I. Inadequacy and Indeterminacy in Police Use of Force Law. 1125 A. Garner, Graham, and Scott. 1128 B. The Consequences of an Impoverished Use of Force Doctrine. 1140 II. Justification Defenses and the Purposes of Police Coercion. 1146 A. Police Use of Force and Justification Defenses. 1146 B. Legitimate Law Enforcement; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Northwestern University Law Review Summer 2008 Article WHEN IS POLICE VIOLENCE JUSTIFIED? Rachel A. Harmon [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2008 Northwestern... |
2008 |
Yes |
| Craig S. Lerner |
An Introduction to Police Hunches |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy Pol'y 1 (Fall, 2007) |
In the years immediately preceding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, hunches, and the police officers who dared to act upon them, were regularly abused in the popular press, courts, and legislatures of America. What was a hunch, after all, but a prejudice, a stereotype, a relic of a benighted past laden with intolerance and bigotry? Then... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Craig S. Lerner |
An Introduction to Police Hunches |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 1 (Fall, 2007) |
In the years immediately preceding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, hunches, and the police officers who dared to act upon them, were regularly abused in the popular press, courts, and legislatures of America. What was a hunch, after all, but a prejudice, a stereotype, a relic of a benighted past laden with intolerance and bigotry? Then; Search Snippet: ...Policy Fall, 2007 Rational Hunches and Policing AN INTRODUCTION TO POLICE HUNCHES Craig S. Lerner [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 Journal of Law... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Russell L. Jones |
Bernard E. Harcourt's Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2006) |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 219 (Fall, 2007) |
Criminal profilingthe use of selected data to predict criminalityis a staple in the administration of criminal justice. Scholars who support criminal profiles suggest that more streamlined suspect pools permit law enforcement officers to better target limited resources to protect the non-offending population. In the administration of criminal; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 2007 Book Review BERNARD E. HARCOURT'S AGAINST PREDICTION: PROFILING, POLICING, AND PUNISHING IN AN ACTUARIAL AGE (2006) Russell L. Jones... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
Bound Between & Beyond the Borderlands: Region, Race, Scale and a Subnational Legal History |
9 Oregon Review of International Law 301 (2007) |
In 1941, police charged and subsequently convicted a Black man and White woman in Denver, Colorado for violating the municipality's vagrancy code. According to the Police Judge who processed the case, the inter-racial relationship indicated that the couple clearly led an idle, immoral, and profligate course of life. Nearly a year later, a divided... |
2007 |
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| Dorothy E. Roberts |
Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Racial Bias: an Abolitionist Framework |
39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 261 (Fall 2007) |
In her last speech before her death in 1965, playwright Lorraine Hansberry incisively described the nature of racial bias in America. She did not speak about a fairer way of punishing the crimes of black people; rather, she identified the paramount crime in the United States as the refusal of its ruling classes to admit or acknowledge in any way... |
2007 |
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| Lewis R. Katz , Aaron P. Golembiewski |
Curbing the Dog: Extending the Protection of the Fourth Amendment to Police Drug Dogs |
85 Nebraska Law Review 735 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 736 II. The Law. 739 A. United States v. Place. 739 B. United States v. Jacobsen. 743 C. Illinois v. Caballes. 746 III. The Drug Dog. 750 A. A Dog Sniff is Not a Minor Intrusion. 752 B. A Trained Drug Dog Does Not Only Alert to Contraband. 754 C. A Well-Trained Dog is Not Extremely Accurate When Alerting to Illegal Drugs. 757 1; Search Snippet: ...THE DOG: EXTENDING THE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO POLICE DRUG DOGS Lewis R. Katz [FNa1] Aaron P. Golembiewski [FNaa1... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth E. Joh |
Discretionless Policing: Technology and the Fourth Amendment |
95 California Law Review 199 (February, 2007) |
What if we could eliminate police discretion from traffic stops by using a computer to accomplish what police officers do without racial prejudice? The technology and a plan to automate law enforcement exist, yet neither has received serious attention. An automated enforcement program would eliminate stops based on nearly all the most frequently... |
2007 |
Yes |
| David Hirschel, Eve Buzawa, April Pattavina, Don Faggiani |
Domestic Violence and Mandatory Arrest Laws: to What Extent Do They Influence Police Arrest Decisions? |
98 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 255 (Fall 2007) |
Current research on domestic violence indicates that intimate partner violence arrest rates have risen as a direct result of the implementation of mandatory and preferred arrest domestic violence laws. However, this research also suggests that part of this increase can be attributed to an increase in the arrest rate of females in cases of domestic... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Christine S. Scott-Hayward |
Explaining Juvenile False Confessions: Adolescent Development and Police Interrogation |
31 EXPLAINING JUVENILE FALSE CONFESSIONS: ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT AND POLICE INTERROGATION 53 (Spring, 2007) |
In May 1998, sixteen-year-old Allen Chesnet cut his hand while working in his Maryland basement. A reporter noticed Allen's bleeding hand while researching a story on a murder victim who lived nearby. Suspecting Allen's involvement in the murder, the reporter called the police. Allen was questioned, released, and then brought in for additional; Search Snippet: ...2007 Contributed Articles EXPLAINING JUVENILE FALSE CONFESSIONS: ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT AND POLICE INTERROGATION Christine S. Scott-Hayward [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 Law and... |
2007 |
Yes |
| The Honorable Harold Baer, Jr. |
Got a Bad Feeling? Is That Enough? The Irrationality of Police Hunches |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 91 (Fall, 2007) |
Police officers stopped a sight-seeing bus in Times Square on Sunday morning, and not because they suddenly desired to see the South Street Seaport. Urgent word had come to them of suspicious men on board, acting suspiciously in these suspicious times. Within seconds, the tourists on the double-decker bus had their hands raised high, in pantomime... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Mary O'Rawe |
Human Rights, Transitional Societies and Police Training: Legitimating Strategies and Delegitimating Legacies |
22 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 199 (Summer 2007) |
A practically universal feature of violently conflicted societies is the damage done to the Rule of Law by allowing legislation and legal process to become another theatre of conflict. In such societies law is manipulated to fit a State conception of order and is thereby rendered unfit to sufficiently restrain and legitimise that order. In terms of... |
2007 |
Yes |
| L. Darnell Weeden |
Johnnie Cochran Challenged America's New Age Officially Unintentional Black Code; a Constitutionally Permissible Racial Profiling Policy |
33 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 135 (Fall, 2007) |
The topic to be addressed is racial profiling in America and Johnnie Cochran's efforts to make more Americans aware that race profiling exists and the practice is wrong. Johnnie Cochran's recent involvement with the issue of racial profiling has highlighted the fact that in America many local law enforcement officers still equate driving while... |
2007 |
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| Craig S. Lerner |
Judges Policing Hunches |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 25 (Fall, 2007) |
In Terry v. Ohio, Chief Justice Earl Warren held that police officers could temporarily detain a suspect, provided they relied upon specific, reasonable inferences, and not simply upon an inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or hunch. Since Terry, courts have strained to distinguish reasonable suspicion, which is said to arise from the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Olatunde C.A. Johnson |
Legislating Racial Fairness in Criminal Justice |
39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 233 (Fall 2007) |
Twenty years ago, in McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court rejected a capital defendant's claim that statistical evidence of racial discrimination in the administration of Georgia's death penalty system constituted a violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Yet, even as McCleskey effectively bars constitutional challenges to racial... |
2007 |
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| James J. Willis, Stephen D. Mastrofski, David Weisburd |
Making Sense of Compstat: a Theory-based Analysis of Organizational Change in Three Police Departments |
41 Law and Society Review 147 (March, 2007) |
COMPSTAT, the latest innovation in American policing, has been widely heralded as a management and technological system whose elements work together to transform police organizations radically. Skeptical observers suggest that COMPSTAT merely reinforces existing structures and practices. However, in trying to assess how much COMPSTAT has altered... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Jeffrey Fagan , Mukul Bakhshi |
New Frameworks for Racial Equality in the Criminal Law |
39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall 2007) |
This year marked the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in McCleskey v. Kemp, a case whose ramifications for the pursuit of racial equality within criminal justice are still felt today. McCleskey set an impossibly high bar for constitutionally-based challenges seeking fundamental racial fairness in capital punishment. The... |
2007 |
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| Steve Herbert, University of Washington |
Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Edited by David Weisburd and Anthony A. Braga. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. Xx+367. $28.00 Paper |
41 Law and Society Review 754 (September, 2007) |
The unrest that plagued American cities in the 1960s led to a crisis of confidence in several institutions, the police not least among them. Many urban riots were touched off by a police-citizen encounter, clear evidence of the symbolic position officers occupied in many communities. This crisis of confidence coincided with the rise of social... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Eric Citron |
Police Pretext as a Democracy Problem |
116 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 364 (April 30, 2007) |
Democracy, at the very least, requires that the dangerous branches of government--like the executive and law enforcement--be accountable to the people or their representatives. Ignoring claims of police pretext, as our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence currently does, creates a barrier to that accountability because it shields bad police purposes from... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Seals |
Police Use of Tasers: the Truth Is "Shocking" |
38 Golden Gate University Law Review 109 (Fall 2007) |
Protect Life. Taser International's slogan may be catchy, but it may mislead the public into believing that the taser devices the company manufacturers are as safe as it claims. To the contrary, there have been over 250 deaths throughout the United States and Canada following police-delivered taser shocks, and that number keeps growing. Not all; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Golden Gate University Law Review Fall 2007 Comment POLICE USE OF TASERS: THE TRUTH IS SHOCKING Elizabeth Seals [FNa1... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Amit Sen |
Policing the Border: Regulating Race, Gender, and Sexuality |
8 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 67 (2007) |
I used to wonder About living and dying - I think the difference lies Between tears and crying. I used to wonder About here and there - I think the distance Is nowhere. --Langston Hughes, Border Lines This paper is born out of extremely personal experiences. It is born out of watching my Bengali mother shed tears of indignation in Britain at the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Andrew E. Taslitz |
Racial Blindsight: the Absurdity of Color-blind Criminal Justice |
5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law L. 1 (Fall, 2007) |
In this introductory essay to this symposium, Professor Taslitz argues that the modern criminal justice system is plagued by racial blindsight. Analogizing to the physical phenomenon of blindsight in which a blind person sees objects but does not know that he sees them, Taslitz maintains that criminal justice system actors often view the world... |
2007 |
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| Angela J. Davis |
Racial Fairness in the Criminal Justice System: the Role of the Prosecutor |
39 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 202 (Fall 2007) |
There are many complex reasons for the unwarranted racial disparities that plague the American criminal justice system, but one of the most significant contributing factors is the exercise of prosecutorial discretion, especially at the charging and plea bargaining stages of the process. Few prosecutors consciously favor criminal defendants or... |
2007 |
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| Marc Mauer |
Racial Impact Statements as a Means of Reducing Unwarranted Sentencing Disparities |
5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 19 (Fall, 2007) |
The extreme racial disparities in rates of incarceration in the United States result from a complex set of factors. Among these are sentencing and drug policies which, intended or not, produce disproportionate racial/ethnic effects. In retrospect, it is clear that many of these effects could have been predicted prior to the adoption of the... |
2007 |
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| George C. Thomas III |
Regulating Police Deception During Interrogation |
39 Texas Tech Law Review 1293 (Summer, 2007) |
I wish to begin with four premises in place. I have defended these premises elsewhere, most recently in my forthcoming book, The Supreme Court on Trial, and want to build on them in this Essay. First, far too many innocent defendants are convicted of crime, a figure that I estimate as between 18,000 and 180,000 per year if we include guilty pleas... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Neil F. Carlson , Leonard M. Baynes |
Rethinking the Discourse on Race: a Symposium on How the Lack of Racial Diversity in the Media Affects Social Justice and Policy |
21 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 575 (Spring-Summer 2007) |
Executive Summary. 578 Introduction. 579 Race and Representation: How the Media Shape and Misshape Race in America. 581 Framing Race: How Media Shape the Discourse at the Nexus of Race and Public Policy. 589 Media Production: Diversity in the Newsroom and the Culture of News Production. 592 The Political Economy of the Media: How Economics and... |
2007 |
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| Sepideh Esmaili |
Searching for a Needle in a Haystack: the Constitutionality of Police Dna Dragnets |
82 Chicago-Kent Law Review 495 (2007) |
Shannon Kohler was given a choice when he was approached by the Baton Rouge Police. He could either allow the police to swab the inside of his mouth to analyze his DNA or he could refuse and, according to the police, be subjected to a court order and public speculation that he was a serial killer. The police warned that the court order would most... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Reed Collins |
Strolling While Poor: How Broken-windows Policing Created a New Crime in Baltimore |
14 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 419 (Fall, 2007) |
As the practice of zero-tolerance policing strategies has surged across American cities, there has been no shortage of law review articles questioning the legality of the stop and frisk tactics used by many police officers, who often hold only vague suspicions of misconduct by the people they accost and search on the street. In an article... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Ryan D. King |
The Context of Minority Group Threat: Race, Institutions, and Complying with Hate Crime Law |
41 Law and Society Review 189 (March, 2007) |
A wealth of research suggests a direct association between minority group size and government social control, such as arrest or imprisonment rates. Prior work in this vein, however, gives scant attention to (1) types of law that explicitly address intergroup conflict and (2) regional variation in the salience of minority group threat. At the same... |
2007 |
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| Eugene Kim |
The New York City Police Department's Random Bag Search Policy: Withstanding Fourth Amendment Scrutiny Is Only the First Step in Combating Terrorism |
37 Seton Hall Law Review 561 (2007) |
September 11, 2001 (9/11) will be remembered as a turning point in American history. When the terrorist attacks occurred, the United States had been enjoying a significant period of overall national prosperity and relative peace on the home front. 9/11 signified that global terrorism would be taken to new extremes and that nobody was safe. At the... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Samuel Estreicher |
The Non-preferment Principle and the "Racial Tiebreaker" Cases |
2007 Cato Supreme Court Review 239 (2006-2007) |
Preferment by race, when resorted to by the State, can be the most divisive of policies, containing within it the potential to destroy confidence in the Constitution and the idea of equality. --Justice Anthony Kennedy, dissenting in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 388 (2003) In the Supreme Court's recent pass at affirmative action, the... |
2007 |
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| Albert W. Alschuler |
The Upside and Downside of Police Hunches and Expertise |
4 Journal of Law, Economics & Policy 115 (Fall, 2007) |
Howard Margolis captured the essence of epistemology, the study of knowledge, when he wrote, [W]e recognize patterns in making sense of the world; we use patterns to guide activity in the world. Every word, every concept, every statement of fact, every paradigm, and every theory reflects a tentative perception of a pattern in experience or... |
2007 |
Yes |
| Andrew D. Black |
The War on People: Reframing "The War on Drugs" by Addressing Racism Within American Drug Policy Through Restorative Justice and Community Collaboration |
46 University of Louisville Law Review 177 (Fall 2007) |
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of every three African-American men between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine are under the control of the... |
2007 |
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| Steven R. Morrison |
Will to Power, Will to Reality, and Racial Profiling: How the White Male Dominant Power Structure Creates Itself as Law Abiding Citizen Through the Creation of Black as Criminal |
2 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 63 (Summer, 2007) |
Postmodern investigations of racism in American law follow in the tradition of tragic detective films noir: pursuing the culprit through a maze of smoke and mirrors in which the detective is never sure of his precise location, his destination, his suspect, or his suspect's culpability, he finally resolves the case and catches his man. His doubts... |
2007 |
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| Mary Newman |
Barnes V. City of Cincinnati: Command Presence, Gender Bias, and Problems of Police Aggression |
29 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 485 (Summer, 2006) |
In 1999, Philip Barnes was denied promotion to sergeant in the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) for failure to appear masculine. Barnes filed suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio under Title VII and the Equal Protection Clause, and in 2005, he won his anti-discrimination lawsuit against the City of... |
2006 |
Yes |
| Carol A. Chase |
Cars, Cops, and Crooks: a Reexamination of Belton and Carroll with an Eye Toward Restoring Fourth Amendment Privacy Protection to Automobiles |
85 Oregon Law Review 913 (2006) |
It is difficult to imagine life without the automobile. In many parts of the country, it is our primary, if not sole, means of transporting ourselves and our property. It has also become the personal effect in which we have the least claim to an expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment. Pursuant to Carroll v. United States, law; Search Snippet: ...4584775 OREGON LAW REVIEW Oregon Law Review 2006 Article CARS, COPS, AND CROOKS: A REEXAMINATION OF BELTON AND CARROLL WITH AN... |
2006 |
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| Tseming Yang |
Choice and Fraud in Racial Identification: the Dilemma of Policing Race in Affirmative Action, the Census, and a Color-blind Society |
11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 367 (Spring 2006) |
INTRODUCTION. 367 I. Crossing Lines of Color and Race. 372 A. Past Efforts to Cross Color and Race Lines. 372 1. Racial Passing. 372 2. Legal Recognition of Whitness (and other Racial Identities). 376 B. New Ways of Passing and Changing One's Racial Identity: Medical Technology and Bureaucratic Records. 377 C. The Construction of Race and Racial... |
2006 |
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| D. Christopher Robinson |
Clifford V. Commonwealth: Admission of Racial Voice Identification Testimony, Regressive or Progressive? |
94 Kentucky Law Journal 607 (2005-2006) |
The voice sounded as if it was of a male black [sic]. The previous statement was the testimony of a Caucasian police officer in the recent Kentucky drug trafficking case, Clifford v. Commonwealth. In Clifford, the prosecution's case hinged on the quoted testimony of the police officer concerning the race of the defendant, and the officer's... |
2006 |
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| Ryan P. Hatch |
Coming Together to Resolve Police Misconduct: the Emergence of Mediation as a New Solution |
21 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 447 (2006) |
One night a mother and father are called and told that their son has been involved in a serious car accident. When the concerned parents arrive at the scene, they approach a police officer to inquire about the condition of their son and his whereabouts. Instead of being responsive to the parents' request and showing some degree of care, the officer... |
2006 |
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| Brian L. Withrow, Ph.D. |
Defending the Racial Profiling Accusation: the Case for the Social Scientist as an Expert Witness |
40-AUG Prosecutor 31 (July/August, 2006) |
In 2003 the State of Kansas released the results of a legislatively mandated statewide racial profiling study. Conducted by the Police Foundation, the study attempted to determine whether racial profiling is occurring in Kansas, and if so, which minorities are being targeted. The researchers compared stop data against a benchmark designed to... |
2006 |
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| Thomas E. Perez, J.D., M.P.P. |
Enhancing Access to Health Care and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status: a Compelling Case for Health Professions Schools to Implement Race-conscious Admissions Policies |
9 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 77 (2006) |
Our nation is more diverse than ever, and this diversity is one of our greatest strengths. This demographic transformation presents a host of challenges for the health care system. Although the American health care system is state-of-the art in so many vital respects, it remains separate and unequal for all too many communities of color. Study... |
2006 |
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| Orde F. Kittrie |
Federalism, Deportation, and Crime Victims Afraid to Call the Police |
91 Iowa Law Review 1449 (July, 2006) |
I. Introduction. 1450 II. The Dual Statuses of Unauthorized Aliens Under U.S. Law: Protected Insider and Deportable Outsider. 1458 A. A Tradition of Constitutional Protections. 1458 B. Deportation. 1460 III. Current Laws and Policies Addressing Deportation as a Barrier to Crime Reporting by Unauthorized Aliens. 1463 A. Overview of Federal Laws and... |
2006 |
Yes |