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Suing the Police in Federal Court |
88 Yale Law Journal 781 (March, 1979) |
In recent years the number of civil suits filed in federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging police misconduct has increased dramatically. Section 1983 grants a private right of action to redress violations of constitutional rights committed by a person acting under color of state law. Although there are, in theory, other ways of controlling... |
1979 |
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Availability of Federal Equitable Relief Against Police Supervisory Personnel |
90 Harvard Law Review 238 (November, 1976) |
Recurrent unlawful police behavior, particularly that directed at the poor and minority groups, is a widespread problem in law enforcement. Confronted with an apparent unwillingness on the part of municipal or police authorities to punish or prevent such misconduct, the victims of police lawlessness have turned increasingly to the federal courts... |
1976 |
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Constitutional Law--freedom of Speech--state Police Intelligence System Focusing on Public Protesters Declared Unconstitutional |
83 Harvard Law Review 935 (February, 1970) |
In the wake of the 1967 urban riots, New Jersey officials determined to take steps to prevent their recurrence. The state attorney general distributed to municipal and county officials a memorandum entitled Civil Disorders--The Role of Local, County and State Governments. One section of the memorandum urged local police departments to cooperate; Search Snippet: ...February, 1970 Recent Case CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FREEDOM OF SPEECH--STATE POLICE INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM FOCUSING ON PUBLIC PROTESTERS DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL Anderson v... |
1970 |
| Patrick V. Murphy |
Varieties of Police Behavior |
83 Harvard Law Review 1943 (June, 1970) |
In a field conspicuously bankrupt of scholarly analysis, Varieties of Police Behavior by Harvard political scientist James Q. Wilson emerges as a valuable contribution to our understanding of the police. It represents, along with Jerome Skolnick's earlier study, Justice Without Trial (1967), one of the few really good books on the subject. Based on... |
1970 |
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Police Discretion and the Judgment That a Crime Has Been Committed- Rape in Philadelphia |
117 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 277 (December, 1968) |
In the administration of criminal justice, attention is usually focused on the proceedings of arrest, prosecution, conviction and sentencing. These four stages, however, all proceed on the assumption that a crime has in fact been committed. The decision that a crime has occurred, and the determination of what information will be collected in order... |
1968 |
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Constitutional Law--due Process--intentional Four Month Delay by Police Between Alleged Offense and Arrest Was Unreasonable under the Circumstances and Denied Defendant Due Process of Law |
80 Harvard Law Review 1361 (April, 1967) |
Woody was arrested in December 1962 for allegedly selling narcotics to an undercover police officer the previous August. The arrest was one of more than fifty resulting from the work of Officer Bush, who had spent nine months from March until December posing as an addict. Woody was convicted on Bush's uncorroborated testimony based on brief notes... |
1967 |
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Program Budgeting for Police Departments |
76 Yale Law Journal 822 (March, 1967) |
In Hartford, Connecticut, the residents of a large area in the center of the Negro ghetto are victims of over one-third of the daylight residential burglaries in the city. Yet during the daytime only one of Hartford's eighteen patrol cars and none of its eleven foot patrolmen is assigned to this area. Sections in the white part of town about the... |
1967 |
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Civil Suits and Civil Rights: Recovery of Police Expenses |
115 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 238 (December, 1966) |
The growing militancy of the Negro civil rights movement, bringing with it an increasing number of demonstrations, sit-ins and the like, has presented substantial problems in the development of state regulatory techniques. Having met with a notable lack of success controlling demonstrations through the use of criminal sanctions, there is now some... |
1966 |
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Juvenile Delinquents: the Police, State Courts, and Individualized Justice |
79 Harvard Law Review 775 (February 1, 1966) |
In early England children over fourteen were subject to the same criminal laws as adults. Children between seven and fourteen were presumed incapable of criminal intent, but the presumption was rebuttable. Those under seven could never be guilty of a crime because they were legally incapable of forming the necessary intent. The judge, after an; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Harvard Law Review February 1966 Notes JUVENILE DELINQUENTS: THE POLICE, STATE COURTS, AND INDIVIDUALIZED JUSTICE [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1966 by... |
1966 |
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The Administration of Complaints by Civilians Against the Police |
77 Harvard Law Review 499 (January, 1964) |
In every American city, there is some system typically administered by the police department itself for processing civilian complaints against police officers. Basically, these complaint review systems encompass the reception and investigation of complaints, the determination of their validity, and the imposition of sanctions. The various local... |
1964 |
| Yale Kamisar |
Report and Recommendations of the Commissioners' Committee on Police Arrests for Investigation |
76 Harvard Law Review 1502 (May, 1963) |
[A] very young Chinese emperorhad been asked by his teacher the name of some animals they met while taking a walk through the countryside. The young emperor replied, They are sheep. The Son of Heaven is perfectly right, the pedagogue said politely. I must add only that these kinds of sheep are usually called pigs. Law enforcement officials... |
1963 |
| Joseph Goldstein |
Police Discretion Not to Invoke the Criminal Process: Low-visibility Decisions in the Administration of Justice |
69 Yale Law Journal 543 (March, 1960) |
Police decisions not to invoke the criminal process largely determine the outer limits of law enforcement. By such decisions, the police define the ambit of discretion throughout the process of other decisionmakers prosecutor, grand and petit jury, judge, probation officer, correction authority, and parole and pardon boards. These police; Search Snippet: ...WL 99311 YALE LAW JOURNAL Yale Law Journal March, 1960 POLICE DISCRETION NOT TO INVOKE THE CRIMINAL PROCESS: LOW-VISIBILITY DECISIONS... |
1960 |
| S. H. S. |
Constitutional Law-14th Amendment-police Powers-segregation Ordinance.-harris V. City of Louisville, 177 S. W. (Ky.) 472 |
25 Yale Law Journal 81 (November, 1915) |
Held, an ordinance which provided for the segregation of races in the city of Louisville, and which contained a clause providing that nothing therein should affect present vested rights, was a valid exercise of the police powers, and not contrary to the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The preservation of public health and; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal November, 1915 Recent Case CONSTITUTIONAL LAW14TH AMENDMENT POLICE POWERSSEGREGATION ORDINANCE.HARRIS V. CITY OF LOUISVILLE, 177 S... |
1915 |
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Police Power - Extent - Statute Separating Whites and Negroes in Private Institutions of Learning |
20 Harvard Law Review 74 (November, 1906) |
A Kentucky statute made it an offense to conduct any institution of learning in which both white and colored persons were received as pupils unless it was conducted in separate branches. Held, that the statute is valid as a reasonable exercise of the police power in so far as it prevents the attendance of members of the two races at the same time; Search Snippet: ...HARVARD LAW REVIEW Harvard Law Review November, 1906 Recent Case POLICE POWER EXTENT STATUTE SEPARATING WHITES AND NEGROES IN PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS... |
1906 |
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Police Power; Schools for White and Colored Persons |
16 Yale Law Journal 45 (November, 1906) |
Following the Civil war it was generally thought that the solving. of the negro question lay in the association of the colored people with the whites. A decade, however, has wrought a change in this view; public opinion, especially in the southern states, has discarded the association idea and the separation of the races is now considered the; Search Snippet: ...51473 YALE LAW JOURNAL Yale Law Journal November, 1906 Comment POLICE POWER; SCHOOLS FOR WHITE AND COLORED PERSONS Copyright © 1906 by... |
1906 |