| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Christopher M. Bellas |
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE JURY VERDICTS IN POLICE USE OF FORCE CASES |
73 Case Western Reserve Law Review 895 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 895 I. Police Use of Force. 896 II. Cases Involving Police Use of Force. 898 III. Race and Police Use of Force: Community Attitudes. 904 IV. Juror Decision Making and Police Use of Force in Criminal Cases. 908 V. Empathy. 910 VI. Empathy and the Criminal Justice System. 912 VII. Juror Attitudes in Police Use of Force... |
2023 |
| Nathan S. Chapman |
FAIR NOTICE, THE RULE OF LAW, AND REFORMING QUALIFIED IMMUNITY |
75 Florida Law Review 1 (January, 2023) |
After a series of highly publicized incidents of police violence, a growing number of courts, scholars, and politicians have demanded the abolition of qualified immunity. The doctrine requires courts to dismiss damages actions against officials for violating the plaintiff's constitutional rights unless a reasonable officer would have known that the... |
2023 |
| Julie A. Sacks, Esq., Attorney at Law, Providence |
FEAR OF GOING VIRAL: RESTRICTING PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' TROUBLING OFF-DUTY FACEBOOK POSTS |
71-APR Rhode Island Bar Journal 9 (March/April, 2023) |
Unlike private sector employees, public sector employees enjoy speech rights under the First Amendment that protect them from discharge or discipline based on the content of their speech when they speak privately as a citizen. However, across the country, police officers, correctional officers, firefighters, and other public employees of... |
2023 |
| Michael D. Makowsky , Patrick L. Warren , Clemson University, Clemson University |
FIREARMS AND LYNCHING |
66 Journal of Law & Economics 259 (May, 2023) |
We assess firearms as a means of Black residents' self-defense in the Jim Crow South. We infer access to firearms by race and place by measuring the fraction of suicides committed with a firearm. Corroborating anecdotal accounts and historical claims, state bans on pistols and increases in White law enforcement personnel served as mechanisms to... |
2023 |
| Noah Smith-Drelich |
FUNDING THE POLICE |
84 Ohio State Law Journal 717 (2023) |
For all the discussion of defunding the police, far less attention has been given to how the police are funded. This Article shines a light on the wide range of sources, public and private, from which police draw their funding. This examination complicates the widely accepted notion of police as locally controlled and wholly public entities. Even... |
2023 |
| Ben Mordechai-Strongin |
GIVING THE FOURTH AMENDMENT MEANING: CREATING AN ADVERSARIAL WARRANT PROCEEDING TO PROTECT FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES |
56 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 951 (Spring, 2023) |
For at least the past 40 years, police and prosecutors have had free reign in conducting illegal searches and seizures nominally barred by the Fourth Amendment. The breadth of exceptions to the warrant requirement, the lax interpretation of probable cause, and especially the good faith doctrine announced in U.S. v. Leon have led to severe... |
2023 |
| Rashmi Goel |
GRANDMA GOT ARRESTED: POLICE, EXCESSIVE FORCE, AND PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA |
57 University of Richmond Law Review 335 (Winter, 2023) |
Recent events have shone a light on the particular vulnerability of people with dementia to police violence. Police are arresting people with dementia and using excessive force to do it--drawing their firearms, deploying tasers, and breaking bones. To date, little attention has been paid to the burgeoning number of people with dementia, one of... |
2023 |
| Kiricka Yarbough Smith, Maura Reinbrecht |
HOW ANTI-SEX TRAFFICKING EFFORTS SHOULD ALIGN WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM |
38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 158 (2023) |
Current law enforcement practices--including efforts to address sex trafficking--disproportionately harm Black people. This Article proposes that front-end criminal justice reforms to reduce the criminalization of poverty, reform racially biased police practices, and increase police accountability could mitigate the disparate impact that policing... |
2023 |
| Patrick K. Lin |
HOW TO SAVE FACE & THE FOURTH AMENDMENT: DEVELOPING AN ALGORITHMIC AUDITING AND ACCOUNTABILITY INDUSTRY FOR FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IN LAW ENFORCEMENT |
33 Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology 189 (2022-2023) |
[S]omething merciless that carried a printed list and a gun, that moved machine-like through the flat, bureaucratic job of killing. A thing without emotions, or even a face; a thing that if killed got replaced immediately by another resembling it. And so on, until everyone real and alive had been shot. L1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 190 I.... |
2023 |
| Kevin Salazar |
INDEPENDENT COUNSEL: THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE DEMANDS NEUTRAL PROSECUTION IN LOCAL AFFAIRS |
32-SPG Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 123 (Spring, 2023) |
You understand we are accusing you of raping women and coercing women into giving false testimony, some of the grossest acts of corruption a police officer can commit, right? a lawyer asked Roger Golubski during a November 2020 deposition. This Roger Golubski was the same person who worked for the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department (KCKPD)... |
2023 |
| Kekek Jason Stark |
INDIAN POLICING: AGENTS OF ASSIMILATION |
73 Case Western Reserve Law Review 683 (Spring, 2023) |
[T]he police force is a perpetual educator. It is a power entirely independent of the chiefs. It weakens, and will finally destroy, the power of tribes and bands . where the Indians themselves are the recognized agents for the enforcement of the law, they will more readily learn to be obedient of its requirements. --Report of the Commissioner of... |
2023 |
| Nadia Rossbach |
INNOCENT UNTIL PREDICTED GUILTY: HOW PREMATURE PREDICTIVE POLICING CAN LEAD TO A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY |
75 Florida Law Review 167 (January, 2023) |
Predictive policing is an innovative, evolving approach to crime prevention that law enforcement has recently embraced. These programs are designed to detect crime patterns by employing machine-learned algorithms to identify high-crime areas as well as likely offenders. In doing so, law enforcement hopes to implement a proactive approach in which... |
2023 |
| Adam M. Gershowitz , Caroline E. Lewis |
LAUNDERING POLICE LIES |
2023 Wisconsin Law Review 1187 (2023) |
Police officers--like ordinary people--are regularly dishonest. Officers lie under oath (testilying), on police reports (reportilying), and in a myriad of other situations. Despite decades of evidence about police lies, the U.S. Supreme Court regularly believes police stories that are utterly implausible. Either because the Court is gullible,... |
2023 |
| Rachel Harmon |
LAW AND ORDERS |
123 Columbia Law Review 943 (May, 2023) |
Coercive policing is conducted mostly by means of commands, and officers usually cannot use force unless they have first issued an order. Yet, despite widespread concern about force and coercion in policing, commands are both underregulated and misunderstood. Officers have no clear legal authority to give many common commands, almost no... |
2023 |
| Allie Schiele |
LEARNING FROM LEADERS: USING CARPENTER TO PROHIBIT LAW ENFORCEMENT USE OF MASS AERIAL SURVEILLANCE |
91 George Washington Law Review Arguendo 14 (March, 2023) |
In 2020, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) resurrected its dragnet aerial surveillance initiative--the Aerial Investigation Research (AIR) program. Using a plane outfitted with high-definition cameras, BPD was able to observe the daily movements of hundreds of thousands of Baltimore residents. Sophisticated technology such as the AIR... |
2023 |
| Bobbi Taylor |
LEGALIZED THEFT: AN ANALYSIS OF CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE AND REFORM IN NEW JERSEY |
53 Seton Hall Law Review 1413 (4/28/2023) |
What if I told you that law enforcement took more stuff from Americans than burglars? And that it was all legal? This is absolutely true, and there are many examples. As recently as September 2021, Nevada state troopers pulled over Stephen Lara, a thirty-nine-year-old former U.S. Marine, while on his way to see his daughters with $87,000 of cash... |
2023 |
| Caleb Linton |
LIKE PUTTING LIPSTICK ON A PIG: WHY THE HISTORY OF CRIME CONTROL SHOULD COMPEL THE PROHIBITION OF INCENTIVIZED WITNESS TESTIMONY UNDER FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS PRINCIPLES |
113 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 391 (Spring, 2023) |
Among Western nations, American courts remain uniquely permissive to the routine law enforcement practice of offering witnesses incentives to testify for the State in criminal trials. Despite laws and ethical rules roundly prohibiting the practice and recurrent skepticism of incentivized testimony in the English common law tradition, American... |
2023 |
| David A. Harris |
LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: TO REDUCE AND RESOLVE RACIAL PROFILING, CONSTRAIN POLICE DISCRETION |
50 Northern Kentucky Law Review 159 (2023) |
As we approach the three-decade mark since the first lawsuits and scholarly work challenging racial profiling on the nation's roads and highways, several conclusions emerge concerning those first efforts to confront the problem. First, that work served the essential purpose of bringing these practices to the notice of the American public and... |
2023 |
| Adam Crepelle |
MAKING RED LIVES MATTER: PUBLIC CHOICE THEORY AND INDIAN COUNTRY CRIME |
27 Lewis & Clark Law Review 769 (2023) |
American Indians are victims of violence at higher rates than members of any other racial group. Nevertheless, Indian victims receive little media attention. Aside from the prevalence of violence against Indians, the violence is unique because of the rules governing Indian country law enforcement. Tribes, absent compliance with federally mandated... |
2023 |
| Michal Buchhandler-Raphael |
MAPPING ALTERNATIVE FIRST RESPONDER MODELS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE |
30 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 15 (Spring, 2023) |
Introduction. 16 I. Problems in Punitive and Carceral Responses DV. 17 II. AFR to DV Typologies. 20 A. An Internal Model: Integrate LCSWs into Police Departments. 22 B. An External Alternative Government Agency Model. 23 C. An External Non-Government Community-Led Model. 24 D. A Collaborative Model: Police and Social Service Providers as... |
2023 |
| Allison E. Lloyd, Erika N. Fountain, Psychology Department, University of Maryland |
MEASURING TRANS YOUTHS' PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE AND POLICE BIAS: EXPLORING THE USE OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE SCALE |
29 Psychology, Public Policy, and Law 336 (August, 2023) |
Recently there have been record-breaking increases in policies prohibiting, and even some proposals to criminalize, normative behavior of gender-diverse youth. These policies inherently expand law enforcement's surveillance of trans and gender-expansive youth. Despite this, we know very little about how trans and gender-expansive youth perceive the... |
2023 |
| Brooklynn K. Hitchens , Jeaneé C. Miller , Yasser Arafat Payne , Ivan Y. Sun , Isabella Castillo |
MORE THAN RACE? INTRAGROUP DIFFERENCES BY GENDER AND AGE IN PERCEPTIONS OF POLICE AMONG STREET-IDENTIFIED BLACK MEN AND WOMEN |
47 Law and Human Behavior 634 (December, 2023) |
Objective: Whereas studies have documented racial differences in attitudes toward police between White and Black Americans, relatively little is known about the intragroup, gender-based variations among urban Black residents involved in criminal activity (i.e., street-identified men and women). Hypotheses: We hypothesized Black women would be more... |
2023 |
| Ani Boyadjian |
MOVING TOWARD POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY: BEYOND SENATE BILL 2 |
56 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1355 (Fall, 2023) |
On September 30, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 2 (SB 2), creat[ing] a system to investigate and revoke or suspend peace officer certification for serious misconduct, as well as establishing the Peace Officer Standards Accountability Division and the Peace Standards Accountability Advisory Board, which will be... |
2023 |
| Alexandria Howell |
NO CHOICE BUT TO COMPLY: IMAGINING AN ALTERNATIVE HOLDING WHERE ATTEMPTED & TOUCHLESS SEIZURES IMPLICATE THE FOURTH AMENDMENT |
98 New York University Law Review 848 (June, 2023) |
Torres v. Madrid is a seminal Supreme Court decision that was decided during the 2021 Supreme Court term. Torres centered on whether a woman who was shot in the back by the police but managed to escape was seized under the Fourth Amendment. This was a decision that garnered widespread attention because it was decided during a national reckoning... |
2023 |
| Hayley Bork |
NO NEED FOR SPEED: THE INHERENT UNREASONABLENESS OF HIGH-SPEED POLICE CHASES AND A NEW APPROACH TO EXCESSIVE FORCE LITIGATION |
88 Brooklyn Law Review 649 (Winter, 2023) |
But all our phrasing--race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy--serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that... |
2023 |
| Allison R. Gilbert, Reah Siegel, Michele M. Easter, Meret S. Hofer, Josie Caves Sivaraman, Deniz Ariturk, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin Swartz, Ruth Wygle, Grace Feng |
NORTH CAROLINA LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTED DIVERSION (LEAD): CONSIDERATIONS FOR OPTIMIZING ELIGIBILITY AND REFERRAL |
86 Law and Contemporary Problems 73 (2023) |
In 2011, a diverse group of stakeholders in Seattle, Washington, developed an alternative to repeated arrests and incarceration of people whose low-level unlawful conduct stemmed from unmet behavioral health needs, launching a new model called Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD). Centered at the intersection of public health, public safety,... |
2023 |
| Aliza Hochman Bloom |
OBJECTIVE ENOUGH: RACE IS RELEVANT TO THE REASONABLE PERSON IN CRIMINAL PROCEDURE |
19 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 1 (April, 2023) |
There is overwhelming evidence that an individual's race affects how police treat them during a police encounter, and that Black Americans have substantial cause to worry about the consequences of ignoring or walking away from law enforcement. Accordingly, when courts determine whether a reasonable person feels free to decline, leave, or end an... |
2023 |
| Madison Sykes |
PATROLLING FOR POLICE DISGUISED AS CULTURAL EXPERTS: CALIFORNIA'S OPPORTUNITY TO DISSOLVE THE EXPERT ADMISSIBILITY DOUBLE STANDARD AND RESTORE DUE PROCESS |
55 University of the Pacific Law Review 129 (November, 2023) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Introduction. 130 II. Development of the Double Standard of Admissible Expert Testimony. 133 A. Opinion Testimony in the California Evidence Code. 134 B. The Judicial Gatekeeping Standard and Evidentiary Decisions Expanding Expert Testimony. 134 C. Limiting Expert Testimony in California. 136 D. Fourteenth Amendment... |
2023 |
| Nora G. McNeil |
PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE BIASES IN THE UPTAKE OF POLICE BODY-WORN CAMERA FOOTAGE: IMPLICATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR INTRODUCTION OF VIDEO EVIDENCE AT TRIAL |
41 Quinnipiac Law Review 499 (2023) |
I. Introduction. 500 II. Perceptual and Cognitive Biases. 504 A. Camera Perspective Bias. 505 1. Camera Perspective Bias: Foundational Research and Principles. 506 2. Illusory Causation. 509 3. Salience. 511 4. Attention. 513 5. Memory-Based and Perceptual-Based Cognition. 518 6. Self-Imagery. 521 B. The Effect of Movement and Motion Blur. 524 C.... |
2023 |
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PESSIMISTIC POLICE ABOLITION |
136 Harvard Law Review 1156 (February, 2023) |
The movement for police abolition seeks to eliminate, or massively downsize, American policing. Mariame Kaba's Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police marks the movement's new life in the mainstream. Featured prominently in the New York Times, Kaba's article presents the two premises that build to abolition. First, the police suppress[]... |
2023 |
| Kelly Recker |
POCKET POLICE: THE PLAIN FEEL DOCTRINE THIRTY YEARS LATER |
121 Michigan Law Review 845 (March, 2023) |
The idea that a police officer can park in a low-income neighborhood, pull someone over because of their race, frisk everyone in the car, let them go if their pockets are empty, and do the whole thing over and over again until the officer finds something illegal seems deeply upsetting and violative, to say the least. And yet, pretextual traffic... |
2023 |
| Falco Anthony Muscante II |
POLICE BRUTALITY & UNIONS: COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IS THE PROBLEM, NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT |
13 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 24 (Spring, 2023) |
When Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes, and when Jason Van Dyke fired sixteen rounds at Laquan McDonald who was walking away from the responding officers, were Chauvin and Van Dyke acting exclusively of their own volition, or were their actions indicative of a deeper, systemic issue? Nearly 60% of law enforcement... |
2023 |
| Nadia Banteka |
POLICE BRUTALITY AS TORTURE |
70 UCLA Law Review 470 (August, 2023) |
Racial justice is one of the most pressing issues in America today, and police brutality is its flashpoint. Incident after incident of police brutality confirm that police harm with impunity those whom they have a duty to protect. Existing criminal statutes are filled with discretionary standards that give officers deference, while civil remedies... |
2023 |
| Rachel Moran, School of Law, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; email: rmoran@stthomas.edu |
POLICE GO TO COURT: POLICE OFFICERS AS WITNESSES/DEFENDANTS |
19 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 93 (2023) |
police, police accountability, law enforcement, perjury, Brady evidence, qualified immunity Police officers regularly serve as government witnesses in criminal cases. In recent years, they have also increasingly found themselves as defendants facing criminal charges, civil lawsuits, or both. This article surveys scholarly literature on police... |
2023 |
| Zachary D. Kaufman |
POLICE POLICING POLICE |
91 George Washington Law Review 353 (April, 2023) |
Police killings of George Floyd and at least 2,218 other Black Americans since 2015 amplified a racial reckoning and intensified demands for meaningful, overdue police reform. This Article is the first legal scholarship to argue that Congress and state legislatures across the United States should enact criminal laws creating a law enforcement... |
2023 |
| Christina Koningisor |
POLICE SECRECY EXCEPTIONALISM |
123 Columbia Law Review 615 (April, 2023) |
Every state has a set of transparency statutes that bind state and local governments. In theory, these statutes apply with equal force to every agency. Yet, in practice, law enforcement agencies enjoy a wide variety of unique secrecy protections denied to other government entities. Legislators write police-specific exemptions into public records... |
2023 |
| Elif M. Babül, Mount Holyoke College |
POLICE, PROVOCATION, POLITICS: COUNTERINSURGENCY IN ISTANBUL DENIZ YONUCU (ITHACA AND LONDON: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2022) |
46 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 1 (May, 2023) |
Deniz Yonucu's remarkable book traces the history of politics and policing in one of Istanbul's predominantly Alevi, working class, dissident neighborhoods, which she calls Devrimova. Following philosopher Jacques Ranciere, Yonucu takes politics and policing as antithetical to one another, both with the goal to transform populations. She asserts... |
2023 |
| I. Bennett Capers |
POLICING "BAD" MOTHERS: THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS. BY JESSAMINE CHAN. NEW YORK, N.Y.: SIMON & SCHUSTER. 2022. PP. 324. $17.99. TORN APART: HOW THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM DESTROYS BLACK FAMILIES--AND HOW ABOLITION CAN BUILD A SAFER WORLD. BY DOROTHY ROBERT |
136 Harvard Law Review 2044 (June, 2023) |
Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers is not a great book. I don't mean that in the sense the writer Judith Newman did when she wrote in the New York Times Book Review one Mother's Day: No subject offers a greater opportunity for terrible writing than motherhood. Rather, I simply mean The School for Good Mothers isn't great literature. I... |
2023 |
| Steven Arrigg Koh |
POLICING & THE PROBLEM OF PHYSICAL RESTRAINT |
64 Boston College Law Review 309 (February, 2023) |
Introduction. 311 I. The Problem of Physical Restraint. 316 A. The Case of Rayshard Brooks. 317 B. The Body Mechanics Gap. 320 II. An Inevitable Problem: Police Reformism and Abolitionism. 323 III. Physical Restraint in Law and the Political Economy of Policing. 326 A. Capacious Constitutional Law. 327 1. Fourth Amendment Seizures. 329 2. Three... |
2023 |
| Jeffrey W. Swanson , Marvin S. Swartz , Brandon Garrett |
POLICING AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONDITIONS |
86 Law and Contemporary Problems I (2023) |
When police officers address public safety, they increasingly encounter individuals with behavioral health care needs. We do not ordinarily think of police as frontline mental health care workers; they are not trained as treatment providers. And yet, many of the people that police routinely detain, question, search, and arrest are acutely in need... |
2023 |
| Ndjuoh MehChu |
POLICING AS ASSAULT |
111 California Law Review 865 (June, 2023) |
From ending qualified immunity, to establishing community control over policing, to eradicating the institution of policing altogether, proposals to remedy the issue of police violence are on everyone's lips. But, in the deep reservoir of proposals, the meaning of police violence has received relatively little attention. How should we think... |
2023 |
| Julia Doherty |
POLICING FOR PROFIT: A CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF WASHINGTON STATE'S CIVIL FORFEITURE LAWS |
46 Seattle University Law Review 773 (Spring, 2023) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 773 I. History of Civil Asset Forfeiture. 775 A. Historical Origins. 776 B. Modern Forfeiture. 776 C. Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act. 777 D. Contemporary Discussions. 778 II. Civil Forfeiture in Washington State. 779 III. Due Process Concerns Demands Change in Washington State. 781 A. Constitutional Protections from... |
2023 |
| Abigail Nieves Delgado |
POLICING IN CRYPTORACIAL SOCIETIES: THE CASE OF MEXICO |
46 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 114 (May, 2023) |
In 2013, the Official Journal of the Federation of Mexico listed the key challenges facing Mexico's judicial institutions: a lack of public trust due to widespread corruption and systematic failure to prosecute and convict criminals (DOF, 2014). A plan to address these issues ensued. Written by the National Conference on the Administration and... |
2023 |
| Valena E. Beety , Jennifer D. Oliva |
POLICING PREGNANCY "CRIMES" |
98 New York University Law Review Online 29 (March, 2023) |
The Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization held that there is no right to abortion healthcare under the United States Constitution. This Essay details how states prosecuted pregnant people for pregnancy behaviors and speculative fetal harms prior to the Dobbs decision. In this connection, it also identifies two,... |
2023 |
| Jenny E. Carroll |
POLICING PROTEST: SPEECH, SPACE, CRIME, AND THE JURY |
133 Yale Law Journal 175 (October, 2023) |
Speech is more than just an individual right--it can serve as a catalyst for democratically driven revolution and reform, particularly for minority or marginalized positions. In the past decade, the nation has experienced a rise in mass protests. However, dissent and disobedience in the form of such protests is not without consequences. While the... |
2023 |
| Avlana K. Eisenberg |
POLICING THE DANGER NARRATIVE |
113 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 473 (Summer, 2023) |
The clamor for police reform in the United States has reached a fever pitch. The current debate has mainly centered around questions of police function: What functions should police perform, and how should they perform them to avoid injustice and unnecessary harm? This Article, in contrast, focuses on a central aspect of police culture--namely, how... |
2023 |
| Michael Brewster |
POLICING THE POLICE: UTILIZING THE RIGHT TO RECORD AND CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT BOARDS TO MONITOR POLICE ACTIVITY IN THE UNITED STATES |
88 Brooklyn Law Review 993 (Spring, 2023) |
If the broad light of day could be let in upon men's actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects.--Louis D. Brandeis On June 25, 2021, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to twenty-two and a half years in prison for the murder of George Floyd, which was caught on film. Bystander video footage captured former... |
2023 |
| Zachary R.M. Outzen |
POLICING VETERANS: WHAT THE VETERANS AFFAIRS POLICE CAN ILLUSTRATE ABOUT THE POLICING OF DISABILITY IN AMERICA |
21 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 423 (Winter, 2023) |
Hospitals are for making sick people healthy. Guns are for killing people. The Department of Veterans Affairs Police (VA Police), a federal law enforcement agency tasked with law enforcement on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) properties, has a shocking record of misconduct and brutality against veterans. Because the VA is the largest... |
2023 |
| Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Justin Murray, Maybell Romero |
PREFACE: NEW DIRECTIONS IN PROSECUTORIAL REFORM |
60 American Criminal Law Review 1369 (Fall, 2023) |
This Preface, which introduces the American Criminal Law Review's Symposium Issue on Reform-Minded Prosecution, begins by describing the power that prosecutors hold in the criminal legal system, which has historically gone unchecked and unquestioned. As mass incarceration, police violence, and wrongful convictions began to permeate the public... |
2023 |
| Osagie K. Obasogie , Peyton Provenzano |
RACE, RACISM, AND POLICE USE OF FORCE IN 21ST CENTURY CRIMINOLOGY: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION |
69 UCLA Law Review 1206 (January, 2023) |
Race scholars have voiced concerns about the field of c riminology and how it examines issues pertaining to race, racism, and racial difference. Various critiques have been made, from the field's overly positivist approach that privileges white logics that obscure the nuance of race relations to methodological critiques on how the field... |
2023 |