| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title |
| Leslie A. Gordon |
A Byte out of Crime |
99-SEP ABA Journal 18 (September, 2013) |
Imagine a police officer at roll call. He gets a printout stating that at a certain time, on a particular city block, there's a certain percentage chance that a burglary will take place. Motivated by the odds, the officer heads over to that neighborhood around that very time. While there, he spots a man carrying a black bag. Does the printout,... |
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| Robin Steinberg , The Bronx Defenders, 360 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451, 718-838-7878, Fax 718-665-0100, E-mail: info@bronxdefenders.org |
Addressing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System Through Holistic Defense |
37-JUL Champion 51 (July, 2013) |
Racial disparity in the criminal justice system is a problem with which public defenders are intimately familiar. They see it every day in courthouses across the country where people of color from low income communities line the crowded hallways, fill the courtroom benches, and sit at the defense table in staggering and disproportionate numbers.... |
2013 |
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| Barry C. Feld |
Behind Closed Doors: What Really Happens When Cops Question Kids |
23 Cornell Journal of Law & Public Policy 395 (Winter, 2013) |
Much of what passes for knowledge about police interviewing practices is no more than assumption and conjecture. Such knowledge probably owes more to television, films, or novels than to any informed understanding of what happens in police interview rooms. Because of the secrecy that has always surrounded police-suspect interviews and the; Search Snippet: ...December, 2013 Article BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENS WHEN COPS QUESTION KIDS Barry C. Feld [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Cornell... |
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| Lynn M. Daggett |
Book 'Em?: Navigating Student Privacy, Disability, and Civil Rights and School Safety in the Context of School-police Cooperation |
45 Urban Lawyer 203 (Winter, 2013) |
The issue of whether schools may, should, or must share information about their students with the police is in the spotlight. Most notably, it has been reported that Jared Loughner, the alleged Tucson shooter of Rep. Gabby Giffords and many others, engaged in disruptive and threatening behavior resulting in his suspension from community college,... |
2013 |
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| Aidan Taft Grano |
Casual or Coercive? Retention of Identification in Police-citizen Encounters |
113 Columbia Law Review 1283 (June, 2013) |
In Bostick and Drayton, the Supreme Court announced that per se rules were inappropriate in answering the Fourth Amendment seizure question, Would a reasonable citizen feel free to leave? But when, if ever, can one factor in a pedestrian encounter with police be so inherently coercive that it becomes dispositive? The D.C. and Fourth Circuits; Search Snippet: ...June, 2013 Note CASUAL OR COERCIVE? RETENTION OF IDENTIFICATION IN POLICE-CITIZEN ENCOUNTERS Aidan Taft Grano [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Directors... |
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Civil Procedure -- Class Actions -- Southern District of New York Certifies Class Action Against City Police for Suspicionless Stops and Frisks of Blacks and Latinos. -- Floyd V. City of New York, 82 Fed. R. Serv. 3d (West) 833 (S.d.n.y. 2012). |
126 Harvard Law Review 826 (January, 2013) |
For a Court that had been besieged by calls to impeach its Chief Justice for his perceived leniency on crime, the 8-1 decision in Terry v. Ohio proved atypical. In his opinion, Chief Justice Warren assented to warrantless police stops and frisks based on no more than reasonable suspicion--an intrusion the former district attorney conceded must... |
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| Wayne A. Logan |
Florence V. Board of Chosen Freeholders: Police Power Takes a More Intrusive Turn |
46 Akron Law Review 413 (2013) |
I. Florence Facts and Holding. 415 II. Arrest Authority and Its Consequences. 420 III. Looking Ahead. 428 IV. Conclusion. 431 |
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Garcia V. Hartford Police Dep't, 706 F.3d 120 (2d Cir. 2013) |
45 Urban Lawyer 507 (Spring, 2013) |
Garcia v. Hartford Police Dep't, 706 F.3d 120 (2d Cir. 2013). A former police officer's violation of the police department's code of conduct is a legitimate justification for an adverse employment decision. Edwin Garcia, a former sergeant with the Hartford Police Department (Hartford PD) who is Hispanic, sued the Hartford PD, Police Chief Joseph; Search Snippet: ...LAWYER Urban Lawyer Spring, 2013 Case Note GARCIA v. HARTFORD POLICE DEP'T, 706 F.3D 120 (2D CIR. 2013) Copyright © 2013... |
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| Anil Kalhan |
Immigration Policing and Federalism Through the Lens of Technology, Surveillance, and Privacy |
74 Ohio State Law Journal 1105 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 1106 II. The Evolution of State and Local Immigration Policing. 1111 A. Unilateral State and Local Initiatives. 1111 B. Cooperative Federalism and Immigration Policing. 1115 C. The Emerging Immigration Federalism Equilibrium. 1120 III. The Emergence of Automated Immigration Policing. 1122 A. NCIC Immigration Violators File. 1122 B.... |
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| Justice Tankebe |
In Search of Moral Recognition? Policing and Eudaemonic Legitimacy in Ghana |
38 Law and Social Inquiry 576 (Summer, 2013) |
Ghana is widely considered as a beacon of hope for democracy in Africa (Gyimah-Boadi 2010, 137). Yet substantive democratic transformations of policing have stagnated mainly because the police continue to act as a handmaiden of the state and powerful elites. Consequently, the reliance on performance in crime control and order maintenance as the; Search Snippet: ...of Legitimacy and Postcolonial Policing IN SEARCH OF MORAL RECOGNITION? POLICING AND EUDAEMONIC LEGITIMACY IN GHANA Justice Tankebe [FNa1] Copyright © 2013... |
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| Elizabeth E. Joh |
Maryland V. King: Policing and Genetic Privacy |
11 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 281 (Fall, 2013) |
With its decision in Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of DNA databases in the American criminal justice system. Even for a cautious Court, this took some time in coming. The national system for sharing DNA profiles, the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), was authorized by Congress in 1994. Virginia; Search Snippet: ...of Criminal Law Fall, 2013 Term Paper MARYLAND V. KING: POLICING AND GENETIC PRIVACY Elizabeth E. Joh [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
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| Jonathan Jackson, Aziz Z. Huq, Ben Bradford, Tom R. Tyler, London School of Economics, University of Chicago Law School, University of Oxford, Yale Law School |
Monopolizing Force? Police Legitimacy and Public Attitudes Toward the Acceptability of Violence |
19 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 479 (November, 2013) |
Why do people believe that violence is acceptable? In this article, the authors study people's normative beliefs about the acceptability of violence to achieve social control (as a substitute for the police, for self-protection and the resolution of disputes) and social change (through violent protests and acts to achieve political goals).... |
2013 |
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| Amna Akbar |
Policing "Radicalization" |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 809 (December, 2013) |
Introduction. 810 I. Radicalization Briefly Historicized. 818 II. Radicalization Defined and Deconstructed. 833 III. Policing the New Terrorism. 845 A. Standards. 846 B. Tactics. 854 1. Mapping. 855 2. Voluntary Interviews. 859 3. Informants. 861 4. Internet Monitoring. 865 5. Community Engagement. 866 IV. Radical Harms. 868 A. Religion,... |
2013 |
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| Adam B. Cox , Thomas J. Miles |
Policing Immigration |
80 University of Chicago Law Review 87 (Winter, 2013) |
Today, local police are being integrated into federal immigration enforcement on a scale never seen before in American history. This transformation of immigration law is not the result of the high-profile efforts by Arizona and a few other states to regulate migrants. Instead, it is the product of a largely overlooked federal program known as... |
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| Jennifer M. Chacón |
Policing Immigration after Arizona |
3 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 231 (June, 2013) |
The Supreme Court's June 25, 2012, decision in the case of Arizona v. United States has already generated a wave of scholarly commentary. The emerging consensus is that the ruling was a significant victory for proponents of federal primacy in immigration law. The Court rejected the voguish notion that states have inherent authority to enforce... |
2013 |
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| Jason A. Cade |
Policing the Immigration Police: Ice Prosecutorial Discretion and the Fourth Amendment |
113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 180 (November 10, 2013) |
A persistent puzzle in immigration law is how the removal adjudication system should respond to the increasing prevalence of violations of noncitizens' constitutional rights by arresting officers. Scholarship in this area has focused on judicial suppression of unconstitutionally obtained evidence, typically by arguing that the Supreme Court should... |
2013 |
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| Alafair Burke |
Policing, Protestors, and Discretion |
40 Fordham Urban Law Journal 999 (March, 2013) |
Introduction. 999 I. Discretion in Enforcement. 1002 II. Looking Beyond Formal Law: Process and Community. 1005 A. Procedural Justice. 1006 B. Community Policing. 1009 III. Discretion, Police, and Protesters. 1012 A. Rules of Engagement: Communication and Transparency. 1013 B. Neutrality. 1017 C. Culture. 1020 Conclusion. 1021 |
2013 |
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| Ian A. Mance |
Power Down: Tasers, the Fourth Amendment, and Police Accountability in the Fourth Circuit |
91 North Carolina Law Review 606 (January, 2013) |
Introduction. 606 I. The Fourth Circuit and Tasers: Orem and Henry. 618 A. Orem v. Rephann. 619 B. Henry v. Purnell. 620 C. Treatment of Tasers by the Federal District Courts of the Fourth Circuit. 622 II. Volitional Versus Non-Volitional Non-compliance. 625 III. The Fourth Amendment and the De Minimis Injury Doctrine. 638 IV. The Prophylactic... |
2013 |
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| Tamara F. Lawson |
Powerless Against Police Brutality: a Felon's Story |
25 Saint Thomas Law Review 218 (Spring 2013) |
Imagine driving to the store with friends, but while en route, you are shot and beaten by the police so severely that random citizen witnesses intervene to stop the police brutality. Next, envision recovering from those injuries and awakening from a coma chained to your hospital bed informed that you are under arrest for attempted murder of a... |
2013 |
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| Whitney Tymas , Vera Institute of Justice, 233 Broadway--12th Floor, New York, NY 10279, 646-596-3520, Fax 212-941-9407, E-mail: wtymas@vera.org |
Prosecution and Race: Understanding the Impacts of Prosecutorial Discretion |
37-JUL Champion 49 (July, 2013) |
For decades, scholars have sought to understand why the United States incarcerates African Americans and Latinos at such enormous rates, compared to their Caucasian counterparts. In exploring whether these disparities can be attributed to racial bias, most empirical studies have examined the dynamics of decision-making by police, judges, and... |
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| Geoffrey J. Derrick |
Qualified Immunity and the First Amendment Right to Record Police |
22 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 243 (Summer, 2013) |
244 I. Introduction. 244 II. The Response of Police Officers Nationwide to Citizen Recording. 252 III. The First Amendment Right to Record Police Officers in Public. 256 A. The Free and Open Discussion of Government Affairs. 258 B. The Freedom of the Press. 261 C. Expressive Conduct and Prior Restraint Doctrine. 264 D. Intermediate; Search Snippet: ...Article QUALIFIED IMMUNITY AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT TO RECORD POLICE Geoffrey J. Derrick [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Trustees of Boston... |
2013 |
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| Michael J. Leiber, Jennifer H. Peck |
Race in Juvenile Justice and Sentencing Policy: an Overview of Research and Policy Recommendations |
31 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 331 (Summer 2013) |
An estimated 2,500 individuals nationwide have been identified as serving life without parole (LWOP) for homicides they committed while under the age of eighteen. Of those, as many as 2,100 might have been sentenced according to a mandatory sentencing rule and may now be in need of review to determine individualized sentencing in the wake of the... |
2013 |
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| Shima Baradaran |
Race, Prediction, and Discretion |
81 George Washington Law Review 157 (January, 2013) |
[I]t is unnecessary to speak directly of race, because talking about crime is talking about race. Many scholars and political leaders denounce racism as the cause of disproportionate incarceration of black Americans. All players in this system have been blamed, including the legislators who enact laws that disproportionately harm blacks, police... |
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| Vanita Gupta , Kara Dansky , ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, 212-549-2500, E-mail: vgupta@aclu.org, ACLU, 915 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202-715-0824, E-mail: kdansky@aclu.org |
Reducing Racial Disparities Through Structural Criminal Justice Reforms |
37-JUL Champion 47 (July, 2013) |
After a century of stability, the last 40 years have witnessed an American penal system dominated by unrelenting growth; mass incarceration has been aggressively implemented at almost every stage of the justice process. Under this punitive regime, penal reform faced an impenetrable wall of resistance, and the consequences are well documented: a... |
2013 |
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| Elliot Harvey Schatmeier |
Reforming Police Use-of-force Practices: a Case Study of the Cincinnati Police Department |
46 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 539 (Summer, 2013) |
When Congress enacted the Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994, it gave the Department of Justice (DOJ) a powerful tool for correcting unconstitutional practices in state and local police agencies. Over the last twenty years, the DOJ has used this power to investigate, sue, and enter into contractual agreements with police agencies... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Kaitlyn Fallon |
Stop and Frisk City: How the Nypd Can Police Itself and Improve a Troubled Policy |
79 Brooklyn Law Review 321 (Fall, 2013) |
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be; Search Snippet: ...2013 Note STOP AND FRISK CITY: HOW THE NYPD CAN POLICE ITSELF AND IMPROVE A TROUBLED POLICY Kaitlyn Fallon [FNd1] Copyright... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Renée McDonald Hutchins |
Stop Terry: Reasonable Suspicion, Race, and a Proposal to Limit Terry Stops |
16 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 883 (2013) |
The Terry doctrine, which grants a police officer the authority to stop and frisk based on his or her reasonable suspicion rather than probable cause, was created by the Supreme Court at a time when the nation confronted a particular moment of violent racial strife. Since Terry was decided, the Supreme Court has continued to expand the reach of the... |
2013 |
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| Tracey L. Meares |
The Good Cop: Knowing the Difference Between Lawful or Effective Policing and Rightful Policing-and Why it Matters |
54 William and Mary Law Review 1865 (May, 2013) |
There are two dominant ways to evaluate the police. The first is whether their conduct comports with the law. The second approach assesses whether they are effective crime fighters. The legal domain is the province of lawyers and law professors. Their briefs and scholarly writings depend usually on interpretations of constitutional law and... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Heather Mac Donald |
The Purpose of Policing: Why Stop and Frisk Matters |
19 CITYLAW L. 1 (January/February, 2013) |
Since the early 1990s, New York City has experienced the longest and deepest crime drop on record--anywhere. Felonies have fallen 80% over two decades, something that was beyond anyone's previous imagining. In 1990, when homicides had reached 2,245, anyone who had predicted that they ever could drop to less than 500 a year would have been deemed... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Heather Mac Donald |
The Purpose of Policing: Why Stop and Frisk Matters |
19 CITYLAW 1 (January/February, 2013) |
Since the early 1990s, New York City has experienced the longest and deepest crime drop on record--anywhere. Felonies have fallen 80% over two decades, something that was beyond anyone's previous imagining. In 1990, when homicides had reached 2,245, anyone who had predicted that they ever could drop to less than 500 a year would have been deemed; Search Snippet: ...637201 CITYLAW January/February, 2013 THE PURPOSE OF POLICING: WHY STOP AND FRISK MATTERS Heather Mac Donald [FNa1... |
2013 |
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| Eda Katharine Tinto |
Undercover Policing, Overstated Culpability |
34 Cardozo Law Review 1401 (April, 2013) |
This Article examines the legal doctrine of sentencing manipulation, a claim, raised at the time of sentencing, in which the defendant argues that undercover police officers purposefully encouraged him to commit particular criminal conduct in order to expose him to a longer, and often mandatory, prison sentence. Currently, the claim of sentencing... |
2013 |
Yes |
| David Murphy |
V.i.p. Videographer Intimidation Protection: How the Government Should Protect Citizens Who Videotape the Police |
43 Seton Hall Law Review 319 (2013) |
With each passing day, more incidents involving police officers, private citizens, and video cameras are emerging on the Internet, making the news, and sometimes appearing on civil and criminal dockets. When individuals bring these incidents to public attention, more people seek to record police activity, which creates more opportunities for police... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Rebecca G. Van Tassell |
Walking a Thin Blue Line: Balancing the Citizen's Right to Record Police Officers Against Officer Privacy |
2013 Brigham Young University Law Review 183 (2013) |
One bystander with a cell phone can change an individual's encounter with law enforcement from an unprovable allegation of abuse to a media sensation. Audio and video recording, a capability in nearly every American's pocket, has changed the way that citizens interact with police officers. Today, the technology that immortalized the police beating... |
2013 |
Yes |
| Rachel Harmon |
Why Do We (Still) Lack Data on Policing? |
96 Marquette Law Review 1119 (Summer, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 1119 II. The Role of Information in Shaping Police Conduct. 1122 III. Policymakers, Incentives, and Information. 1128 III. Federal Law and Information About the Police. 1132 IV. Conclusion. 1145 |
2013 |
Yes |
| Lenese Herbert |
Why Properly Policing a Movement Matters: a Response to Alafair Burke's Policing, Protestors, and Discretion |
40 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1023 (March, 2013) |
Introduction. 1023 I. Police Use of Force and Fourth Amendment Reasonableness . 1031 II. Protestors' Expressive Conduct and the First Amendment. 1033 III. How Police See What Occupy Is Saying. 1035 Conclusion. 1041 |
2013 |
Yes |
| Jeremy Kaplan-Lyman |
A Punitive Bind: Policing, Poverty, and Neoliberalism in New York City |
15 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 177 (2012) |
Narrowly conceived, neoliberalism is a system of economic ideas and policy initiatives that emphasize small government and market-based solutions to social and economic problems. Adopted in response to the fiscal, welfare and racial crises of the Keynesian state, neoliberalism has become the dominant governing principle in the United States over... |
2012 |
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| Josh Segal |
All of the Mysticism of Police Expertise: Legalizing Stop-and-frisk in New York, 1961-1968 |
47 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 573 (Summer 2012) |
I. Disciplinary in Character: Police Professionalization. 578 II. To Render Evidence So Obtained Legally Obtained: Mapp v. Ohio and the Origins and Structure of the Stop-and-Frisk Statute. 582 A. Hamstrung Police: Responding to Mapp v. Ohio. 582 B. Legislative Confidence in the Judgment of the Police Officer: Police Expertise in Statute.... |
2012 |
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| David G. Barrie |
Anglicization and Autonomy: Scottish Policing, Governance and the State, 1833 to 1885 |
30 Law and History Review 449 (May, 2012) |
As with other pillars of the Scottish criminal justice system, the distinctiveness of the Scottish police model from its English counterpart has been widely acknowledged. Its historical development, institutional structure, and level of community support have been portrayed as unique in the United Kingdom. Although rarely heralded as a symbol of; Search Snippet: ...and History Review May, 2012 Article ANGLICIZATION AND AUTONOMY: SCOTTISH POLICING, GOVERNANCE AND THE STATE, 1833 TO 1885 David G. Barrie... |
2012 |
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| Michelle K. Wolf |
Anti-wiretapping Statutes: Disregarding Legislative Purpose and the Constitutional Pitfalls of Using Anti-wiretapping Statutes to Prevent the Recording of On-duty Police Officers |
15 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 165 (Winter 2012) |
The law struggles to keep pace with the modern age of media, electronic communication, and social networking websites. Both the United States Supreme Court and Congress have attempted to adapt the Fourth Amendment to changing technology. In 1968, Congress enacted a federal statute that regulated wiretapping procedures in order to comply with the... |
2012 |
Yes |
| Dustin F. Robinson |
Bad Footage: Surveillance Laws, Police Misconduct, and the Internet |
100 Georgetown Law Journal 1399 (April, 2012) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1400 I. Adjusting the Focus: The Genesis of Surveillance Law. 1402 II. A Law Is Worth a Thousand Interpretations: Individual State Approaches to Surveillance Laws. 1404 A. WASHINGTON'S PRACTICALITY. 1405 B. MASSACHUSETTS'S LITERALISM. 1408 C. ILLINOIS'S CONVERSATION. 1410 III. Ready for the Close-Up: Police... |
2012 |
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| Marcia Johnson , Luckett Anthony Johnson |
Bail: Reforming Policies to Address Overcrowded Jails, the Impact of Race on Detention, and Community Revival in Harris County, Texas |
7 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 42 (Winter, 2012) |
Starting in the 1970s, the U.S. federal government and many state and local governments adopted get tough policies against crime. These new strict policy initiatives produced an explosion of incarceration in prisons throughout the country. They also impacted local jails as well, particularly in the numbers of persons detained pre-trial. This... |
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| Kristen Chambers |
Citizen-directed Police Reform: How Independent Investigations and Compelled Officer Testimony Can Increase Accountability |
16 Lewis & Clark Law Review 783 (Summer 2012) |
Police misconduct in the United States has spurred decades of police reform efforts, but change has been slow and not attributable to any particular method. One method that seems promising both to remedy individual harms and to help transform police culture is citizen oversight of the police. This Note argues that citizen oversight agencies can aid; Search Snippet: ...Lewis & Clark Law Review Summer 2012 Note & Comment CITIZEN-DIRECTED POLICE REFORM: HOW INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIONS AND COMPELLED OFFICER TESTIMONY CAN INCREASE... |
2012 |
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| César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández |
Cluster Introduction - Immigrant Outsider, Alien Invader: Immigration Policing Today |
48 California Western Law Review 231 (Spring 2012) |
This is the story of immigration policing today. Sensors in the ground, high-intensity lights overhead, steel walls ten feet high, and drone aircraft in the air. Twenty-one thousand uniformed personnel armed with automatic weaponry, their might augmented by many thousands more from local law enforcement agencies. All tied together through massive... |
2012 |
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| L. Song Richardson |
Cognitive Bias, Police Character, and the Fourth Amendment |
44 Arizona State Law Journal 267 (Spring 2012) |
I. Introduction. 268 II. Cognitive Biases. 269 A. Fundamental Attribution Error. 269 B. Implicit Racial Bias. 271 1. Biased Interpretation of Ambiguous Behavior. 272 2. Acting with Aggression. 273 C. Malleability of Cognitive Biases. 274 III. Doctrinal Implications. 277 A. Jurisprudential Ignorance. 277 B. Exacerbating Psychological Biases. 279 C.... |
2012 |
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| Cynthia Jones |
Confronting Race in the Criminal Justice System |
27-SUM Criminal Justice 12 (Summer, 2012) |
The criminal justice system in the United States is not post-racial. Across the country, African Americans, Latinos, and other minorities are overrepresented at each stage in the adjudication process. It is not uncommon for some to dismiss these disparities with oversimplified explanations, such as Minorities just commit a disproportionate amount... |
2012 |
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| Brian J. Foley |
Contraband Immunity: Updating Amsterdam, Lafave, and White's "Use-exclusion" Proposal to Limit Police Pretext |
17 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 195 (Fall, 2012) |
For decades, legal scholars have struggled with the problem of pretextual searches and seizures. These are defined as police using their power to stop or search or arrest for one crime, usually a minor crime, as a means of triggering the ability to search, without probable cause, for evidence of other crimes. That is, police might stop a person in... |
2012 |
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Cop Killers |
48 Criminal Law Bulletin 1 (2012) |
Professor, California Western School of Law. A.B. Kenyon; J.D. Florida; LL.M Illinois; Search Snippet: ...Bulletin Volume 48, Issue 3 Summer 2012 Criminal Law Bulletin Cop Killers Daniel Yeager[ * Introduction The controlling purpose of... |
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| Udi Ofer |
Criminalizing the Classroom: the Rise of Aggressive Policing and Zero Tolerance Discipline in New York City Public Schools |
56 New York Law School Law Review 1373 (2011/2012) |
On February 1, 2010 school safety officers arrested twelve-year-old Alexa Gonzalez in front of her classmates and teachers. What did she do wrong? While waiting for her Junior High School Spanish teacher to distribute homework assignments, Alexa doodled on her desk with an erasable marker, I love my friends Abby and Faith. Lex was here. 2/1/10.... |
2012 |
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| Mark Lawrence McPhail , Rachel Lyon , David Harris |
Digital Divisions: Racial (In)justice and the Limits of Social Informatics in the State of Georgia Vs. Troy Anthony Davis |
39 Northern Kentucky Law Review 137 (2012) |
The recent decision by the Georgia State Board of Pardons to execute Troy Anthony Davis for the murder of police officer Mark McPhail raises a number of legal, social, and media issues that coalesce around questions of racial justice and reconciliation. The legal issues raised by the decision range from the unequal application of the death penalty... |
2012 |
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| Andrew J. Mathern |
Federal Civil Rights Lawsuits and Civil Gideon: a Solution to Disproportionate Police Force? |
15 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 353 (Spring 2012) |
On October 18, 2010, a seventeen-year-old Black male (Michael) entered a convenience store in downtown Seattle. Outside, unknown to Michael, a fight broke out between undercover cops and suspected drug dealers. Michael heard shouts down the street and stepped out of the convenience store to see what was happening. Seeing a plainclothes police... |
2012 |
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