| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Sierra Villaran |
Narratives of Cultural Collision and Racial Oppression: How to Reconcile Theories of a Cultural Defense and Rotten Social Background Defense to Best Serve Criminal Defendants |
88 Southern California Law Review 1239 (July, 2015) |
Once upon a time, not so long ago, culture, in the lower case, was primarily an anthropological preoccupation. Not any more. It is hardly news that peoples across the planet have taken to invoking it, to signifying themselves with reference to it, to investing it with an authority, a determinacy, a superorganic unity of which even the most... |
2015 |
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| Marcia L. McCormick |
Our Uneasiness with Police Unions: Power and Voice for the Powerful? |
35 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 47 (2015) |
When Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in August of 2014 and people started to talk publicly to tell the story of what happened, to determine whether a crime had occurred, or to protest the shooting or living conditions of African Americans in Ferguson and cities like it, the two people in the best position to talk about what happened... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
Out of Breath and down to the Wire: a Call for Constitution-focused Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal L.J. 5 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION (THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY). 6 I. A BREATHTAKING SNAPSHOT IN TIME: FROM I CAN'T BREATHE TO FUCK YOUR BREATH AND BEYOND. 12 A. From I Can't Breathe to Fuck Your Breath: The Deaths of Eric Garner and Eric Harris. 12 B. Other Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men (and a Child) Between July 2014 and July 2015. 14 1. The Death of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
Out of Breath and down to the Wire: a Call for Constitution-focused Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal 5 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION (THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY). 6 I. A BREATHTAKING SNAPSHOT IN TIME: FROM I CAN'T BREATHE TO FUCK YOUR BREATH AND BEYOND. 12 A. From I Can't Breathe to Fuck Your Breath: The Deaths of Eric Garner and Eric Harris. 12 B. Other Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men (and a Child) Between July 2014 and July 2015. 14 1. The Death of; Search Snippet: ...AND DOWN TO THE WIRE: A CALL FOR CONSTITUTION-FOCUSED POLICE REFORM Nancy C. Marcus [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 Howard University... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Danielle Evans |
Police Body Cameras: Mending Fences and How Pittsburgh Is a Leading Example |
16 University of Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law and Policy 76 (Fall, 2015) |
After the police brutality deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, amongst others, many call for increased accountability through police officer body-worn cameras (body cameras or cameras). Body cameras are small cameras, weighing approximately 108 grams, affixed to a police officer's shirt pocket, hat, collar, shoulder, or even... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Joey Dhillon |
Police Body-mounted Cameras: Balancing the Interests of Citizens and the State |
25 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 69 (Fall 2015) |
There has been a significant push in the community at large to equip law enforcement officers with body-mounted cameras. This push has come as the result of several high profile cases in the media of officer involved shooting deaths. This note will address both the benefits and drawbacks of such technology, the proceeding social impact of the... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Eric J. Miller |
Police Encounters with Race and Gender |
5 UC Irvine Law Review 735 (November, 2015) |
Introduction. 735 I. Reasonable Encounters?. 738 A. Targeting and Treating Civilians. 739 B. Contestatory Citizens. 744 II. Contesting Encounters. 748 Conclusion. 757 |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nathaniel Bronstein |
Police Management and Quotas: Governance in the Compstat Era |
48 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 543 (Summer, 2015) |
Police department activity quotas reduce police officer discretion and promote the use of enforcement activity for reasons outside of law enforcement's legitimate goals. States across the country have recognized these issues, as well as activity quotas' negative effects on the criminal justice system and community-police relations, and have passed... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Robin G. Steinberg |
Police Power and the Scaring of America: a Personal Journey |
34 Yale Law and Policy Review 131 (Fall 2015) |
In America today, nearly 900, 000 men and women are granted general arrest powers. These officers are increasingly militarized, possessed of automatic weapons and armored vehicles, their departments sporting their own helicopters and boats-- amounting to a small air force and navy tasked with domestic law enforcement. This vast army of law... |
2015 |
Yes |
| L. Song Richardson |
Police Racial Violence: Lessons from Social Psychology |
83 Fordham Law Review 2961 (May, 2015) |
The recent rash of police killing unarmed black men has brought national attention to the persistent problem of policing and racial violence. These cases include the well-known and highly controversial death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the deaths of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island,... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Kenneth Lawson |
Police Shootings of Black Men and Implicit Racial Bias: Can't We All Just Get along |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 339 (Spring, 2015) |
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Jeannine Bell |
Police Violence and Ferguson: (En)racing Criminal Procedure |
65 Journal of Legal Education 306 (November, 2015) |
Even if I had wanted to, there is simply no way that I could have avoided discussing the events in Ferguson, Missouri, with my Criminal Procedure Investigation class and maintained any credibility with my students. When Michael Brown was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, I was preparing to teach a... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Karson Kampfe |
Police-worn Body Cameras: Balancing Privacy and Accountability Through State and Police Department Action |
76 Ohio State Law Journal 1153 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 1154 II. Current Use of Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1156 III. Benefits of Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1161 A. Mutual Benefits. 1162 B. Public Benefits. 1163 C. Police Benefits. 1164 1. Lawsuits and Civil Complaints. 1165 2. Training. 1166 3. Efficiency. 1166 4. Context. 1167 IV. Problems with Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1169 A. Negative... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Ann C. McGinley |
Policing and the Clash of Masculinities |
59 Howard Law Journal 221 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION: POLICING, RACE, AND GENDER. 222 I. EMPIRICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLICE BEHAVIOR. 227 A. Use of Force Studies. 227 B. Investigations of Real Police Departments. 229 1. Cleveland, Ohio Division of Police. 229 2. Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. 233 II. MASCULINITIES STUDIES AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY: HEGEMONY, PRIVILEGE, AND... |
2015 |
Yes |
| I. India Geronimo Thusi |
Policing Sex: the Colonial, Apartheid, and New Democracy Policing of Sex Work in South Africa |
38 Fordham International Law Journal 205 (January, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 205 I. DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND SLAVERY. 208 II. BRITISH COLONIAL RULE. 210 A. Colony of Cape of Good Hope. 210 B. Victorian Era. 211 C. Contagious Diseases Acts. 216 D. Colony of Natal. 219 E. The Transvaal and the Mineral Gold Rush. 223 III. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 226 A. Black Peril. 226 B. Sex Worker: The Unreliable Public; Search Snippet: ...INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Fordham International Law Journal January, 2015 Article POLICING SEX: THE COLONIAL, APARTHEID, AND NEW DEMOCRACY POLICING OF SEX WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA I. India Geronimo Thusi... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Aaron Roussell |
Policing the Anticommunity: Race, Deterritorialization, and Labor Market Reorganization in South Los Angeles |
49 Law and Society Review 813 (December, 2015) |
Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks--the territorial imperative and community partnership--which remain central more than 20 years later. At the same time, LA has undergone a... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Alec Karakatsanis |
Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers |
128 Harvard Law Review Forum 253 (April, 2015) |
It did not surprise me that almost every child in the D.C. public high school class raised a hand when I asked if any of them had been stopped and searched by the police. When I told them that being stopped without reasonable suspicion that they were committing a crime is a violation of the United States Constitution, one of the students corrected... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Charlie Gerstein, J.J. Prescott |
Process Costs and Police Discretion |
128 Harvard Law Review Forum 268 (April, 2015) |
Cities across the country are debating police discretion. Much of this debate centers on public order offenses. These minor offenses are unusual in that the actual sentence violators receive when convicted--usually time already served in detention--is beside the point. Rather, public order offenses are enforced prior to any conviction by... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Robin Lipp |
Protest Policing in New York City: Balancing Safety and Expression |
9 Harvard Law & Policy Review 275 (Winter 2015) |
Protests are the core of political dissent for good reason. It is no secret that political outsiders--those whose views and interests fall outside the ambit of current party politics--face difficulties influencing public policy through formal channels. The increasing necessity of vast-scale fundraising in political campaigns and the mix of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Mario L. Barnes, School of Law, University of California, Irvine |
Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. By Charles Epp, Steven Maynard-moody, and Donald Haider Markel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 272 Pp. 25.00 Paperback |
49 Law and Society Review 279 (March, 2015) |
It is rare to read a new book that makes important contributions to multiple fields and literatures. It is rarer still when the book addresses the interrelation of race, perceived criminality, and policing--historically fraught affiliations that remain so despite being extensively explored within law and social science research. In Pulled Over: How... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Donald A. Dripps |
Race and Crime Sixty Years after Brown V. Board of Education |
52 San Diego Law Review 899 (November 1, 2015) |
I. Disparate Rates of Offending. 902 II. Proactive vs. Reactive Policing. 904 III. New Directions. 908 IV. Conclusion. 911 Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared that the doctrine of separate but equal has no place in American public life, 549,100 African-Americans are serving time in state or federal penitentiaries. They comprise 36% of... |
2015 |
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| Graham Cronogue |
Race and the Fourth Amendment: Why the Reasonable Person Analysis Should Include Race as a Factor |
20 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 55 (Fall-Spring, 2014-2015) |
I. Introduction to the Problem. 56 II. State of the Law on the Reasonable Person and Seizures. 59 III. Police and Race Relations. 61 A. Race Affects How Individuals Are Viewed and Treated by Law Enforcement. 62 B. Race Affects How Individuals View Law Enforcement. 64 IV. Social Science Data on How This Legacy Affects Seizures. 66 A. Analysis of the... |
2015 |
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| Cassia Spohn |
Race, Crime, and Punishment in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries |
44 Crime and Justice 49 (2015) |
Flagrant and widespread racism that characterized the criminal justice system during the early part of the twentieth century has largely been eliminated, but racial disparities persist. Whether because of overt racism, implicit bias, or laws and practices that have racially disparate effects, black (and Hispanic) men and women make up a... |
2015 |
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| Matthew R. Segal , Carol Rose |
Race, Technology, and Policing |
59-SUM Boston Bar Journal 27 (Summer, 2015) |
Police departments in Massachusetts and around the nation face heightened scrutiny about racial bias in their stop-and-frisk and use-of-force procedures. Years of abusive practices, combined with videos of police killing unarmed Black men, have sparked protests and eroded trust between communities and the police. These protests, in turn, have... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Robert J. Smith |
Reducing Racially Disparate Policing Outcomes: Is Implicit Bias Training the Answer? |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 295 (Spring, 2015) |
While public defenders, civil rights organizations, and academics have long championed the reduction of racially disparate policing outcomes, their chorus has added some transformational actors recently. Attorney General Eric Holder, for instance, has called for rigorous new standards to help end racial profiling. The police chief of Richmond,... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Amanda Merkwae |
Schooling the Police: Race, Disability, and the Conduct of School Resource Officers |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 147 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 147 I. Race, Disability, and the School to Prison Pipeline. 151 A. The Overrepresentation of Youth of Color and Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System. 151 B. The Criminalization of Students of Color and Students with Disabilities. 153 II. School Resource Officers. 157 A. The Influx of Police in Schools. 158 B.... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Laura Rose Matteis |
Stay Away from the Neck: Why Police Chokeholds and Other Neck Restraints Violate International Human Rights |
38 Thomas Jefferson Law Review 101 (Fall, 2015) |
On July 17, 2014, 43-year-old Eric Garner was killed in Staten Island, New York, after a New York City police officer restrained him. Leading up to this tragedy, Garner was standing on a sidewalk when officers accused him of selling loose cigarettes, which he denied. One officer reached forward to grab Garner's hands and Garner threw them in the... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Cynthia J. Najdowski , Bette L. Bottoms , Phillip Atiba Goff , University at Albany, State University of New York, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles |
Stereotype Threat and Racial Differences in Citizens' Experiences of Police Encounters |
39 Law and Human Behavior 463 (October, 2015) |
We conducted 2 studies to investigate how cultural stereotypes that depict Blacks as criminals affect the way Blacks experience encounters with police officers, expecting that such encounters induce Blacks to feel stereotype threat (i.e., concern about being judged and treated unfairly by police because of the stereotype). In Study 1, we asked... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Stephen Rushin |
Structural Reform Litigation in American Police Departments |
99 Minnesota Law Review 1343 (April, 2015) |
Introduction. 1344 I. Emergence of Structural Reform Litigation in Police Departments. 1351 A. Historical Attempts To Regulate Police Misconduct. 1353 B. Rodney King and the Need for an Equitable Remedy. 1356 C. Previous Research. 1358 II. Methodology. 1364 III. The Structural Reform Litigation Process in Police Departments. 1366 A. Case Selection,... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Clay Calvert |
The First Amendment Right to Record Images of Police in Public Places: the Unreasonable Slipperiness of Reasonableness & Possible Paths Forward |
3 Texas A&M Law Review 131 (Fall, 2015) |
Analyzing federal cases through May 2015, this Article examines the current, contested terrain of the emerging, yet qualified, First Amendment right to record police performing duties in public venues. The Article argues that multiple First Amendment interests, ranging from the watchdog role of the press to discovery of truth under the marketplace... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth N. Jones |
The Good and (Breaking) Bad of Deceptive Police Practices |
45 New Mexico Law Review 523 (Spring, 2015) |
Strategic police deception is common in criminal investigations, encouraged by law enforcement and routinely permitted by courts. But while various tactics and ruses may technically comport with existing criminal law jurisprudence, they raise deep social and ethical problems that provoke concern about the acceptable role of police behavior within; Search Snippet: ...2015 Professional Article THE GOOD AND (BREAKING) BAD OF DECEPTIVE POLICE PRACTICES Elizabeth N. Jones [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 New Mexico... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Karena Rahall |
The Green to Blue Pipeline: Defense Contractors and the Police Industrial Complex |
36 Cardozo Law Review 1785 (June, 2015) |
Images of police in tactical gear, pointing automatic weapons at unarmed demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, represented a flashpoint in public awareness that American police are rapidly militarizing. Federal grants have been quietly arming police with tanks, drones, and uniforms more suited to waging war than patrolling the streets. As police; Search Snippet: ...Article THE GREEN TO BLUE PIPELINE: DEFENSE CONTRACTORS AND THE POLICE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX Karena Rahall [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2015 Yeshiva University... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Richard H. McAdams , Dhammika Dharmapala , Nuno Garoupa |
The Law of Police |
82 University of Chicago Law Review 135 (Winter, 2015) |
Some Fourth Amendment doctrines distinguish between searches executed by police and others, being more demanding of the former. We explore these distinctions by offering a simple theory for how police are different, focusing on self-selection. Those most attracted to the job of policing include those who feel the most intrinsic satisfaction from; Search Snippet: ...2015 Symposium: Criminal Procedure in the Spotlight THE LAW OF POLICE Richard H. McAdams [FNd1] Dhammika Dharmapala [FNdd1] Nuno Garoupa [FNddd1... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Marielle A. Moore |
The next Stage of Police Accountability: Launching a Police Body-worn Camera Program in Washington, D.c. |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 145 (Summer, 2015) |
We are not just out here because we want police reform. We are not just out here because we want police to wear cameras, and though we think that will help, we are not out here just because we think the police department is the problem. We're out here because there is a systematic and consistent effort to dehumanize and criminalize people of color... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Betsy Graef, Consultant to the Seattle Community Police Commission |
The Seattle Community Police Commission: Lessons Learned and Considerations for Effective Community Involvement |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice Just. 1 (Summer, 2015) |
The 2010 lethal shooting of John T. Williams, a First Nations woodcarver, by a Seattle police officer, and a series of other serious incidents involving police and people of color, reignited longstanding public concerns about bias and the use of excessive force in the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The American Civil Liberties Union of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Betsy Graef, Consultant to the Seattle Community Police Commission |
The Seattle Community Police Commission: Lessons Learned and Considerations for Effective Community Involvement |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1 (Summer, 2015) |
The 2010 lethal shooting of John T. Williams, a First Nations woodcarver, by a Seattle police officer, and a series of other serious incidents involving police and people of color, reignited longstanding public concerns about bias and the use of excessive force in the Seattle Police Department (SPD). The American Civil Liberties Union of; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2015 Seattle Journal for Social Justice THE SEATTLE COMMUNITY POLICE COMMISSION: LESSONS LEARNED AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Betsy... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Brian Liebman |
The Watchman Blinded: Does the North Carolina Public Records Law Frustrate the Purpose of Police Body Cameras? |
94 North Carolina Law Review 344 (December, 2015) |
A man lies dead in the middle of the street, shot by a police officer. Before the body is even taken away, two distinct accounts of the shooting emerge. The officer claims that the shooting was legitimate, done in self-defense after the man reached for the officer's gun, started to run away, and then turned and charged the officer through a hail of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Hugh M. Mundy |
Thinking Globally, Policing Locally: a Model for Decentralized Law Enforcement in Côte D'ivoire |
15 Journal of International Business and Law 15 (Winter 2015) |
During a 2009 speech in Ghana, President Barack Obama said, Africa doesn't need strongmen. It needs strong institutions. Obama credited Ghana's impressive rates of growth to the country's repeated peaceful transfers of power even in the wake of closely contested elections. Free elections and non-violent power transfers, he said, may lack the; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2015 December 2015 Legal and Business Article THINKING GLOBALLY, POLICING LOCALLY: A MODEL FOR DECENTRALIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Carol M. Bast |
Tipping the Scales in Favor of Civilian Taping of Encounters with Police Officers |
5 University of Denver Criminal Law Review 61 (Summer, 2015) |
The original purposes of eavesdropping statutes were to protect the citizen against government intrusion into the citizen's privacy and to authorize law enforcement interception to fight organized crime. Yet, in certain instances, the statutes have been used offensively by the government to avoid citizen oversight of policing and even to intimidate; Search Snippet: ...THE SCALES IN FAVOR OF CIVILIAN TAPING OF ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE OFFICERS Carol M. Bast [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by the University... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Geoffrey Wills |
To Protect and Serve, but Not Drive: Police Use of Autonomous Vehicles |
31 Syracuse Journal of Science & Technology Law 158 (Spring, 2015) |
This paper will discuss the rapidly developing technology of autonomous vehicles and the legal ramifications of police departments across the country using them. This note will discuss that when autonomous vehicles become commercially viable and available, law enforcement could use these autonomous vehicles, allowing their officers to use their... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Franklin E. Zimring , Brittany Arsiniega |
Trends in Killings of and by Police: a Preliminary Analysis |
13 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 247 (Fall, 2015) |
This comment reports a preliminary examination of variations over time in reported killings of and by the police. Most of the data we examine was collected from police departments by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program as part of a statistical compilation of lethal violence that has reported yearly since 1976. The data on killings of police; Search Snippet: ...Law Fall, 2015 Commentarie TRENDS IN KILLINGS OF AND BY POLICE: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS [FNa1] Franklin E. Zimring [FNaa1] Brittany Arsiniega... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Mary D. Fan |
Violence and Police Diversity: a Call for Research |
2015 Brigham Young University Law Review 875 (2015) |
Deaths and protests in places where predominantly-white police forces patrol majority-black communities have focused the national spotlight on concerns over unrepresentative police forces. Responding to the controversy, mayors and police chiefs in cities across the nation are announcing goals to hire more minority officers. But does police... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nicole Smith Futrell |
Vulnerable, Not Voiceless: Outsider Narrative in Advocacy Against Discriminatory Policing |
93 North Carolina Law Review 1597 (June, 2015) |
L1-2Introduction . L31598 I. The Promise of Outsider Narrative in Combating Marginalization. 1605 A. Narratives Reveal and Counter Assumptions. 1607 B. Narratives Enrich and Connect Advocacy Efforts. 1609 1. Outsider Narratives in Legal Advocacy. 1610 2. Connections Between Legal and Nonlegal Advocacy. 1613 II. Using Outsider Narratives: The... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Kelly Freund |
When Cameras Are Rolling: Privacy Implications of Body-mounted Cameras on Police |
49 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 91 (Fall, 2015) |
This Note analyzes the potential privacy implications of the use of body-mounted cameras by police. Specifically, this Note considers how policy concerns and legal limitations should shape when and where cameras may record and what may be done with the footage once it has been collected. Currently, there are few clearly established legal limits on... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Georgina C. Yeomans |
When Cops Are Robbers: Reconciling the Whren Doctrine and 18 U.s.c. § 242 |
115 Columbia Law Review 701 (April, 2015) |
In 1996, the Supreme Court handed down Whren v. United States, which prohibits inquiry into police officers' subjective motivations in conducting a search or seizure when there is reasonable suspicion or probable cause on which to base the search. The Whren doctrine has largely restricted the availability of the exclusionary rule and 42 U.S.C. §; Search Snippet: ...COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Columbia Law Review April, 2015 Note WHEN COPS ARE ROBBERS: RECONCILING THE WHREN DOCTRINE AND 18 U.S.C. §... |
2015 |
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| Stephanie Groff |
Where to Draw the Line: the Egregiousness Standard in the Application of the Fourth Amendment in Immigration Proceedings and the Racial Profiling Exception |
26 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 87 (Fall 2015) |
In the early morning of September 19, 2006, a large group of men gathered in Kennedy Park, Danbury, Connecticut, seeking work as day laborers. Unbeknownst to these individuals, the Danbury Police Department (DPD) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began arriving at the park with the intention of carrying out a sting operation. The... |
2015 |
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| Erin M. Kerrison, Ph.D. |
White Claims to Illness and the Race-based Medicalization of Addiction for Drug-involved Former Prisoners |
31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 105 (Spring 2015) |
Critical Race Theory scholars have long argued that the War on Drugs is a war waged against low-income, black urban citizens. However, as the spotlight has shifted somewhat from policing street drug use and trafficking among poor, inner-city blacks, to concerns about the chronic pharmaceutical substance abuse of middle- and upper-class white... |
2015 |
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| Larry Redmond |
Why We Need Community Control of the Police |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 226 (Symposium, 2015) |
Police in the United States of America in the twenty-first century are out of control. The news of a police officer killing a Black man is so common today, it is causing many of us to become more and more enraged. We all know the names Walter Scott, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd and Laquan McDonald. These names have been... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Angela Irvine, Ph.D. |
You Can't Run from the Police!: Developing a Feminist Criminology That Incorporates Black Transgender Women |
44 Southwestern Law Review 553 (2015) |
BreakOUT! Members and Staff BreakOUT! is a community-based organization in New Orleans that fights the criminalization of queer and transgender youth of color. Here is an excerpt from their report, We Deserve Better: Lee-Lee is a young Black transgender woman who moved here for college and is a Sophomore at a local university. She is also a; Search Snippet: ...Professor Myrna S. Raeder Article YOU CAN'T RUN FROM THE POLICE!: DEVELOPING A FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY THAT INCORPORATES BLACK TRANSGENDER WOMEN Angela... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Martina Kitzmueller |
Are You Recording This?: Enforcement of Police Videotaping |
47 Connecticut Law Review 167 (November, 2014) |
Increasing numbers of police departments equip officers with dashboard or body cameras. Advances in technology have made it easy for police to create and preserve videos of their citizen encounters. Videos can be important pieces of evidence; they may also serve to document police misconduct or protect officers from false allegations. Yet too... |
2014 |
Yes |