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Kyle M. Wood Taking Shelter under the Fourth Amendment: the Constitutionality of Policing Methods at State-sponsored Natural Disaster Shelters 60 William and Mary Law Review 1071 (February, 2019) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 1072 I. The Fourth Amendment's Proscription Against Unreasonable Seizures. 1076 A. What Is a Seizure?. 1077 B. What Is an Unreasonable Seizure?. 1078 C. Checkpoints as Constitutional (or Unconstitutional) Seizures. 1079 II. The Constitutionality of Warrant Checkpoints at Natural Disaster Shelters. 1082 A; Search Snippet: ...Note TAKING SHELTER UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF POLICING METHODS AT STATE-SPONSORED NATURAL DISASTER SHELTERS Kyle M. Wood... 2019
Michael Sierra-Arévalo Technological Innovation and Police Officers' Understanding and Use of Force 53 Law and Society Review 420 (June, 2019) Today, the TASER is a ubiquitous less-than-lethal force technology lauded for its ability to curb police officers' use of excessive and lethal force. Although less injurious than other weapons, concerns exist that the TASER can still be misused by police officers. This article uses ethnographic observations and unstructured interviews across three; Search Snippet: ...Law and Society Review June, 2019 Article TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND POLICE OFFICERS' UNDERSTANDING AND USE OF FORCE Michael Sierra-Arévalo [FNa1... 2019
Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D. The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice 15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Liberties 1 (February, 2019) Introduction. 1 I. The Narrative of Implicit Bias. 3 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 4 B. Implicit Bias is Everyone's Problem. 7 C. Implicit Bias Marginalizes Racism. 8 D. Implicit Bias Consigns Racism to the Dustbin of History. 9 II. A Social Inflection Point?. 12 III. A Legal Inflection Point. 15 A. Revisiting and Revising Jody Armour's Reasonable... 2019
Jonathan Kahn, J.D., Ph.D. The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice 15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (February, 2019) Introduction. 1 I. The Narrative of Implicit Bias. 3 A. What is Implicit Bias?. 4 B. Implicit Bias is Everyone's Problem. 7 C. Implicit Bias Marginalizes Racism. 8 D. Implicit Bias Consigns Racism to the Dustbin of History. 9 II. A Social Inflection Point?. 12 III. A Legal Inflection Point. 15 A. Revisiting and Revising Jody Armour's Reasonable; Search Snippet: ...Civil Rights & Civil Liberties February, 2019 Article THE 911 COVENANT: POLICING BLACK BODIES IN WHITE SPACES AND THE LIMITS OF IMPLICIT BIAS AS A TOOL OF RACIAL JUSTICE Jonathan Kahn , J.D., Ph.D. [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by the... 2019
David Thacher The Aspiration of Scientific Policing 44 Law and Social Inquiry 273 (February, 2019) Weisburd, David, and Malay Majmundar, eds. Proactive Policing: Effects on Crime and Communities. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2018. Over the past three decades, policing scholars have increasingly emphasized research that investigates the impact of well-defined policing strategies on crime, trust, and other community outcomes. The... 2019
Elizabeth E. Joh The Consequences of Automating and Deskilling the Police 67 UCLA Law Review Discourse 134 (2019) Discussions of automation in the workplace typically omit policing. This is a mistake. The increasing combination of artificial intelligence and robotics will provide us with social benefits, but it will also create new problems as automation replaces human labor. Mass unemployment may be one consequence. Another is deskilling, the loss of the... 2019
Osagie K. Obasogie , Zachary Newman The Endogenous Fourth Amendment: an Empirical Assessment of How Police Understandings of Excessive Force Become Constitutional Law 104 Cornell Law Review 1281 (July, 2019) If the Fourth Amendment is designed to protect citizens from law enforcement abusing its powers, why are so many unarmed Americans killed? Traditional understandings of the Fourth Amendment suggest that it has an exogenous effect on police use of force, i.e., that the Fourth Amendment provides the ground rules for how and when law enforcement can... 2019
Rick Trinkner, Erin M. Kerrison, Phillip Atiba Goff, Arizona State University, University of California, Berkeley, John Jay College of Criminal Justice The Force of Fear: Police Stereotype Threat, Self-legitimacy, and Support for Excessive Force 43 Law and Human Behavior 421 (October, 2019) Researchers have linked police officers' concerns with appearing racist--a kind of stereotype threat--to racial disparities in the use of force. This study presents the first empirical test of the hypothesized psychological mechanism linking stereotype threat to police support for violence. We hypothesized that stereotype threat undermines... 2019
Katherine A. Heil The Fuzz(y) Lines of Consent: Police Sexual Misconduct with Detainees 70 South Carolina Law Review 941 (Summer, 2019) I. Introduction. 942 II. Background. 945 A. Sexual Misconduct by Staff in Correctional Facilities. 945 B. Consent in the Context of Correctional Facilities. 948 III. The Presence of The Law Enforcement Consent Loophole. 951 A. Consent in Police Custody Compared to Consent in Correctional Facilities. 951 B. The Consent Loophole Creates Significant... 2019
Alexandra Natapoff The High Stakes of Low-level Criminal Justice: Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing by Issa Kohler-hausmann Princeton University Press, 2018 128 Yale Law Journal 1648 (April, 2019) The low-level misdemeanor process is a powerful socio-legal institution that both regulates and generates inequality. At the same time, misdemeanor legal processing often ignores many foundational criminal justice values such as due process, evidence, and even individual guilt. These features are linked: the erosion of the rule of law is one of the... 2019
Drew Ruzanski The Open Public Records Act: the People's Bastion Against Police Misconduct in New Jersey 16 Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy 83 (Spring, 2019) In the United States of America, police brutality and overreach have been and continue to be insidious problems. Protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, after the shooting death of an unarmed African-American teenager at the hands of a Ferguson police officer. A subsequent United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) investigation into the... 2019
Emani Walks The Paradox of Policing as Protection: a Harm Reduction Approach to Prostitution Using Safe Injection Sites as a Guide 26 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 157 (Spring, 2019) N.H.I. No humans involved. That was the acronym Los Angeles police officers reportedly used in the files for murders of drug addicts and sex workers in the mid-1980s. The lack of police response to these killings might be the reason why one of L.A.'s most notorious serial killers walked free for almost thirty years. Lonnie Franklin Jr., also known... 2019
Caitlin Cavanagh , Elizabeth Cauffman , Michigan State University, University of California, Irvine The Role of Rearrests in Juvenile Offenders' and Their Mothers' Attitudes Toward Police 43 Law and Human Behavior 220 (June, 2019) Both personal experience and parental attitudes shape youths' attitudes toward the justice system. The present study tested the influence of (a) youth rearrests and (b) parents' attitudes toward police on trajectories of youthful offenders' attitudes toward police over 3 years. Among a sample of 317 first-time male juvenile offenders and their; Search Snippet: ...OF REARRESTS IN JUVENILE OFFENDERS' AND THEIR MOTHERS' ATTITUDES TOWARD POLICE [FNd1] Caitlin Cavanagh [FNa1] Michigan State University Elizabeth Cauffman [FNa1... 2019
Suzanne Barth The Terry Dilemma: a Game Theoretic Analysis of Qualified Immunity for Police Officers 28 Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 87 (Winter, 2019) I. Introduction. 87 II. Legal Background. 88 A. The Birth of the Terry Stop. 88 B. The Civil Action for Damages. 90 C. Qualified Immunity. 91 D. Thomas v. Dillard. 96 III. Economic Background. 99 IV. Model 1: The Terry Dilemma. 101 A. The Suspect's Considerations: Criminal Liability, Physical Safety, and the Fourth Amendment. 102 B. The Police... 2019
Flint Taylor The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago 13 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 1 (Winter 2019) The Center for Public Interest Law and National Lawyers Guild are pleased to welcome Flint Taylor, to discuss his book, The Torture Machine. Flint Taylor is a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago where they have been dedicated to litigating civil rights issues, government misconduct, and police violence cases for over 50 years. He; Search Snippet: ...Social Justice Winter 2019 December 2019 Discussion THE TORTURE MACHINE: RACISM AND POLICE VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO Flint Taylor Copyright © 2019 by DePaul University... 2019
Ayesha Bell Hardaway Time Is Not on Our Side: Why Specious Claims of Collective Bargaining Rights Should Not Be Allowed to Delay Police Reform Efforts 15 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 137 (June, 2019) Many view the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 as the best chance for police departments to make meaningful and lasting improvements. That legislation provides the federal government with the authority to investigate and sue local law enforcement agencies for engaging in a pattern or practice of policing that violates the... 2019
Meghan Racklin Title Ix and Criminal Law on Campus: Against Mandatory Police Involvement in Campus Sexual Assault Cases 94 New York University Law Review 982 (October, 2019) This Note argues that policy proposals mandating law enforcement involvement in campus sexual assault cases are harmful to survivors of sexual assault and are inconsistent with Title IX. Title IX's gender-equality goals require schools to address sexual assault as a civil rights issue, with a focus on its impact on survivors' continued access to... 2019
Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann, Alex Tabarrok To Serve and Collect: the Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement 48 Journal of Legal Studies 189 (January, 2019) We exploit local deficits and state-level differences in police revenue retention from civil asset forfeitures to estimate how incentives to raise revenue influence policing. In a national sample, we find that local fine and forfeiture revenue increases faster with drug arrests than arrests for violent crimes. Revenues also increase faster with... 2019
Jeffrey S. Adler 'To Stay the Murderer's Hand and the Rapist's Passions, and for the Safety and Security of Civil Society': the Emergence of Racial Disparities in Capital Punishment in Jim Crow New Orleans 59 American Journal of Legal History 297 (September, 2019) This essay examines capital punishment in New Orleans between 1920 and 1945. Building on a quantitative analysis of case-level data culled from police, court, and prison records, it explores the emergence of racial disparities in death-penalty sentencing and charts the increasing use of capital punishment as a mechanism of racial control. The paper... 2019
Whitney Benns Unholy Union: St. Louis Prosecutors and Police Unionize to Maintain Racist State Power 35 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal 39 (Spring, 2019) In late December 2018, St. Louis County prosecutors voted to unionize and join the St. Louis Police Officer Association (SLPOA), the infamous St. Louis City police union that represents many of the city's white police officers. This vote came on the heels of former St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch--whose almost three-decade... 2019
Abby Riffee Victim-offender Mediation: an Alternative Accountability Method in Police Brutality Cases 34 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution 777 (2019) I. Introduction II. High-Profile Case Studies: Police Shootings of Unarmed Black Men A. Michael Brown B. Freddie Gray C. Sylville Smith D. Anthony Lamar Smith III. Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Mediation: An Overview A. History and Evolution B. Restorative Justice Principles 1. Victim-Offender Mediation Programs 2. Does Victim-Offender; Search Snippet: ...2019 Note VICTIM-OFFENDER MEDIATION: AN ALTERNATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY METHOD IN POLICE BRUTALITY CASES Abby Riffee Copyright © 2019 by the Ohio State... 2019
Michelle Burrell What Can the Child Welfare System Learn in the Wake of the Floyd Decision?: a Comparison of Stop-and-frisk Policing and Child Welfare Investigations 22 CUNY Law Review 124 (Winter, 2019) Introduction. 125 I. The History of Stop-and-Frisk in New York. 128 II. Parallels Between Use of Stop-and-Frisk and CPS Investigations. 130 A. Low Burden of Proof. 130 B. Disproportionate Effects on People of Color in Low Income Communities. 133 C. The Impact on Community. 134 D. Lack of Recourse for Rogue Police Officers and Rogue Caseworkers. 135... 2019
Alexis Karteron When Stop and Frisk Comes Home: Policing Public and Patrolled Housing 69 Case Western Reserve Law Review 669 (Spring, 2019) In response to programmatic stop-and-frisk, police killings, and other recent controversies in American policing, many have called for smart policing--the evidence-based deployment of police resources. An often-heralded example of smart policing is hot spots policing, which involves directing police attention to locations where crime and disorder... 2019
Sarah Lamdan When Westlaw Fuels Ice Surveillance: Legal Ethics in the Era of Big Data Policing 43 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 255 (2019) Legal research companies are selling surveillance data and services to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other law enforcement agencies. This Article discusses ethical issues that arise when lawyers buy and use legal research services sold by the same vendors responsible for building ICE's surveillance systems. As the legal... 2019
Courtney E. Lewis Where the Constitution Falls Short: Confession Admissibility and Police Regulation 123 Dickinson Law Review 551 (Winter, 2019) A confession presented at trial is one of the most damning pieces of evidence against a criminal defendant, which means that the rules governing its admissibility are critical. At the outset of confession admissibility in the United States, the judiciary focused on a confession's truthfulness. Culminating in the landmark case Miranda v. Arizona,; Search Snippet: ...2019 Comment WHERE THE CONSTITUTION FALLS SHORT: CONFESSION ADMISSIBILITY AND POLICE REGULATION Courtney E. Lewis [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by The Pennsylvania... 2019
Chan Tov McNamarah White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black 24 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 335 (Spring, 2019) Over the past year, reports to the police about Black persons engaged in innocuous behaviors have bombarded the American consciousness. What do we make of them? And, equally important, what are the consequences of such reports? This Article is the first to argue that the recent spike in calls to the police against Black persons who are simply... 2019
Ariana H. Aboulafia Who Ya Gonna Call? An Analysis of Paradigm Shifts and Social Harms as a Result of Hyper-viral Police Violence 10 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 2019) I. INTRODUCTION. 3 II. Ferguson is Everywhere -Why Good-Faith Individuals Are Reluctant to Call the Police. 4 (1) Adding Fuel to the Fire - Enhanced Fear of Calling Police in Minorities. 4 (1)(a) Changes in Policing. 6 (1)(b) Tough on Crime Policies that Target Minority Communities. 9 (1)(c) Hyper-Viral Police Violence, From Rodney King to... 2019
Ariana H. Aboulafia Who Ya Gonna Call? An Analysis of Paradigm Shifts and Social Harms as a Result of Hyper-viral Police Violence 10 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 1 (Fall, 2019) I. INTRODUCTION. 3 II. Ferguson is Everywhere -Why Good-Faith Individuals Are Reluctant to Call the Police. 4 (1) Adding Fuel to the Fire - Enhanced Fear of Calling Police in Minorities. 4 (1)(a) Changes in Policing. 6 (1)(b) Tough on Crime Policies that Target Minority Communities. 9 (1)(c) Hyper-Viral Police Violence, From Rodney King to; Search Snippet: ...SHIFTS AND SOCIAL HARMS AS A RESULT OF HYPER-VIRAL POLICE VIOLENCE Ariana H. Aboulafia [FNa1] Copyright © 2019 by the University... 2019
Alexis Holmes Zoning, Race, and Marijuana: the Unintended Consequences of Proposition 64 23 Lewis & Clark Law Review 939 (2019) This Article revisits the campaign to legalize cannabis in California with Proposition 64. It then dissects the localism within the new California regulations and how it conflicts with the social justice goals central to the spirit of Proposition 64's passage. With local governments retaining control over marijuana in their jurisdictions, land use... 2019
Bethany Krystek 9-1-1, What's Your Risk? Minimizing the Risk of Police Violence Through Computer-assisted Dispatch 70 Federal Communications Law Journal 373 (September, 2018) C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 375 II. Background. 376 A. The Development of Police Dispatch Technology. 376 1. The First Police Communication Systems. 376 2. The Creation of 9-1-1. 378 3. The Current Regime: Computer Aided Dispatch Systems. 379 B. The Rise in Police Use of Excessive Force. 380 C. The Psychology Behind Excessive Force. 384... 2018
Magda Boutros A Multidimensional View of Legal Cynicism: Perceptions of the Police among Anti-harassment Teams in Egypt 52 Law and Society Review 368 (June, 2018) In Egypt in 2012, several anti-harassment groups were established to respond to an increase in sexual violence in public spaces and to the failure of the state to tackle the issue. Anti-harassment groups organized patrol-type intervention teams that operated during demonstrations or public celebrations to stop sexual assaults. This article examines... 2018
Owen Doherty A Reform to Police Department Hiring: Preventing the Tragedy of Police Misconduct 68 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1259 (Summer, 2018) C1-2Contents Introduction. 1259 I. Police Misconduct Defined. 1266 A. Criminal Activity. 1267 B. Corruption. 1270 C. Unconstitutional Activities. 1272 D. Racial Profiling and Bias. 1275 II. The Challenges of Preventing Hiring Officers with Poor History. 1277 A. Confidentiality Agreements. 1278 B. Police Unions, Police Culture, and the Blue Wall of... 2018
Kelli L. Cover Baltimore City Schools Need Many Things - a Personal Police Force Is Not One of Them 48 University of Baltimore Law Forum 69 (Spring, 2018) When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison. This is one example through which Angela Davis explained the damaging impacts of systems that replicate the structures of prisons, particularly on poor communities of color.... 2018
Stacy L. Hawkins Batson for Judges, Police Officers & Teachers: Lessons in Democracy from the Jury Box 23 Michigan Journal of Race and Law L. 1 (2017-2018) In our representative democracy we guarantee equal participation for all, but we fall short of this promise in so many domains of our civic life. From the schoolhouse, to the jailhouse, to the courthouse, racial minorities are underrepresented among key public decision-makers, such as judges, police officers, and teachers. This gap between our... 2018
Stacy L. Hawkins Batson for Judges, Police Officers & Teachers: Lessons in Democracy from the Jury Box 23 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 1 (2017-2018) In our representative democracy we guarantee equal participation for all, but we fall short of this promise in so many domains of our civic life. From the schoolhouse, to the jailhouse, to the courthouse, racial minorities are underrepresented among key public decision-makers, such as judges, police officers, and teachers. This gap between our; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law 2017-2018 Article BATSON FOR JUDGES, POLICE OFFICERS & TEACHERS: LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY FROM THE JURY BOX Stacy... 2018
Franciska Coleman Between the "Facts and Norms" of Police Violence: Using Discourse Models to Improve Deliberations Around Law Enforcement 47 Hofstra Law Review 489 (Winter 2018) Police violence and protests of police violence have become a common feature of today's news cycles and have led to widespread critique and distrust of the law enforcement apparatus and police practice. States and municipalities have responded to the delegitimization of police practice with community-police dialogues. This Article argues that such... 2018
Kiel Brennan-Marquez Big Data Policing and the Redistribution of Anxiety 15 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 487 (Spring, 2018) By equipping police with data, what are we trying to accomplish? Certain answers ring familiar. For one thing, we are trying to make criminal justice decisions, plagued as they often are by inaccuracy and bias, more refined. For another, we are trying to boost the efficiency of governance institutions--police departments, prosecutor's offices,... 2018
Emmanuel Mauleón Black Twice: Policing Black Muslim Identities 65 UCLA Law Review 1326 (June, 2018) In a political moment that includes various iterations of a Muslim Ban, and a resurgent mainstreaming of white nationalism, race and religion clearly remain hotly contested in American life. And yet, in much of the recent scholarship and public debate on these issues, the intersecting experiences of Black Muslims are often elided, if not entirely... 2018
Dr. Bridgette Baldwin Black, White, and Blue: Bias, Profiling, and Policing in the Age of Black Lives Matter 40 Western New England Law Review 431 (2018) Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Benjamin Spock On July 17, 2014, in Staten Island, New York, Eric Garner lost his life to an illegal chokehold at the hands of police officer Daniel Pantaleo. With his last words, Garner uttered the... 2018
Timothy Zindel Blue: the Lapd and the Battle to Redeem American Policing by Joe Domanick Simon & Schuster (2016) 42-JUN Champion 59 (June, 2018) Blue is an excellent and readable account of efforts to reform Los Angeles policing after the Rodney King riots, which followed the state court acquittal in a cop-heavy white enclave of the four officers who beat King nearly to death. That beating differed from similar LAPD beatings in that it occurred under the watchful eye of George Holliday, who... 2018
Mary D. Fan Body Cameras, Big Data, and Police Accountability 43 Law and Social Inquiry 1236 (Fall, 2018) The increase in data from police-worn body cameras can illuminate formerly opaque practices. This article discusses using audiovisual big data from police-worn body cameras, citizen recordings, and other sources to address blind spots in police oversight. Based on body camera policies in America's largest cities, it discusses two possible... 2018
Thomas Gardiner , Patrick Molinari Body Cameras: a New Era in Policing 30 DCBA Brief 8 (May, 2018) The next time you are approached by an officer in Cook County, your eye may be drawn to a black, boxy attachment to the officer's chest. Despite its innocuous appearance, this new accessory (reminiscent of a 1980's pager) has become one of the most powerful tools in the officer's arsenal. Body worn cameras, colloquially referred to as police body; Search Snippet: ...Raleigh D. Kalbfleisch [FNa1] BODY CAMERAS: A NEW ERA IN POLICING Thomas Gardiner [FNa2] Patrick Molinari [FNa3] Copyright © 2018 by DCBA... 2018
Rick Trinkner, Jonathan Jackson, Tom R. Tyler, Arizona State University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Yale Law School Bounded Authority: Expanding "Appropriate" Police Behavior Beyond Procedural Justice 42 Law and Human Behavior 280 (June, 2018) This paper expands previous conceptualizations of appropriate police behavior beyond procedural justice. The focus of the current study is on the notion of bounded authority--that is, acting within the limits of one's rightful authority. According to work on legal socialization, U.S. citizens come to acquire three dimensions of values that; Search Snippet: ...Law and Human Behavior June, 2018 BOUNDED AUTHORITY: EXPANDING APPROPRIATE POLICE BEHAVIOR BEYOND PROCEDURAL JUSTICE [FNa1] Rick Trinkner Arizona State University... 2018
Emma O'Rourke-Friel Bring out the Bearcat! Reprioritizing the Transfer of Dod Property under the 1033 Program 48 Public Contract Law Journal 147 (Fall, 2018) C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction. 148 II. Background: Principles and Practices of the Federal Property Disposal Regime. 151 A. Defining the Mission: The Evolution of, and Property Available Under, the 1033 Program. 152 B. DoD's Disposal Process: An Overview, and Where 1033 Fits In. 157 III. Deprioritization: Realigning the 1033 Program with; Search Snippet: ...law enforcement agencies through the 1033 program. In October 2014, police in a small New Hampshire town confronted a drunken riot... 2018
Keegan Stephan Conspiracy: Contemporary Gang Policing and Prosecutions 40 Cardozo Law Review 991 (December, 2018) Surely gang members cannot be decreed to be outlaws, subject to the merest whim of the police as the rest of us are not. C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 992 I. Background: Gang Policing and the Law. 998 A. Gang Policing Before Morales. 998 B. Vagueness Doctrine. 1000 C. Morales. 1003 D. The Application of Morales. 1006 E. Vagueness Doctrine... 2018
Rachel Moran Contesting Police Credibility 93 Washington Law Review 1339 (October, 2018) Criminal cases often amount to credibility contests between two actors: the complainant, testifying for the government, and the defendant. In theory, the defendant's opportunity to attack the credibility of government witnesses should be equal to or greater than the government's opportunity to attack the credibility of the defendant,... 2018
James M. Binnall Cops and Convicts: an Exploratory Field Study of Jurymandering 16 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 221 (Fall, 2018) Since 1972, scholars have used the term jurymandering to describe jury selection procedures that eliminate classes of citizens from the adjudicative process. Today, the most prominent mass exclusion of prospective jurors targets the estimated nineteen million Americans with a felonious criminal history. Forty-nine states, the federal government,; Search Snippet: ...LAW Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law Fall, 2018 Commentary COPS AND CONVICTS: AN EXPLORATORY FIELD STUDY OF JURYMANDERING James M... 2018
Arthur H. Garrison Criminal Culpability, Civil Liability, and Police Created Danger: Why and How the Fourth Amendment Provides Very Limited Protection from Police Use of Deadly Force 28 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 241 (Summer, 2018) On November 22, 2014, two Cleveland, Ohio police officers received a call to investigate a guy with a gun outside a rec center. The caller told the 911 dispatcher the gunman was probably a juvenile and that the gun might not be real; however, dispatch did not communicate those points to the officers. The police were only told by the dispatcher; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Summer, 2018 Article CRIMINAL CULPABILITY, CIVIL LIABILITY, AND POLICE CREATED DANGER: WHY AND HOW THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PROVIDES VERY LIMITED PROTECTION FROM POLICE USE OF DEADLY FORCE [FNd1] Arthur H. Garrison [FNa1] Copyright... 2018
Bennett Capers Criminal Procedure, the Police, and the Wire as Dissent 2018 University of Chicago Legal Forum 65 (2018) The Wire is rich with metaphors. There is the physical wire in the opening credits, a metaphor for surveillance more generally. There is the metaphor of the wire in the sense of a modern tightrope--another filmic work, Man on a Wire, comes to mind--where any minute one can lose one's balance. There is even the metaphor of the wire in the sense that... 2018
Rachel Abanonu De-escalating Police-citizen Encounters 27 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 239 (Summer, 2018) C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION. 240 II. DE-ESCALATION TRAINING. 242 A. Background. 242 B. Basics of Police De-Escalation Training. 245 C. Comparing Police Department Training Programs. 248 1. New York. 249 2. Dallas. 249 3. Las Vegas. 250 4. Cincinnati. 251 5. Los Angeles. 252 6. Salt Lake City. 253 7; Search Snippet: ...Review of Law & Social Justice Summer, 2018 Note DE-ESCALATING POLICE-CITIZEN ENCOUNTERS Rachel Abanonu [FNa1] Copyright © 2018 by the University... 2018
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