If Police Kill Because Citizens Are Afraid, That's a Problem
Fatal shootings in Portland and Brooklyn demonstrate how fear pushes officers to escalate encounters.
Fatal shootings in Portland and Brooklyn demonstrate how fear pushes officers to escalate encounters.
"We want people to come here and have a good time and to feel safe."
Law enforcement is already resisting.
The ruling allows a civil suit against Backpage to proceed for one of the case's three plaintiffs.
This is not how you rebuild those community ties.
Lawmakers have tried to counter the powerful law enforcement lobby and failed.
Some additional thoughts about how a 2015 ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department contributed to the 2016 homicide spike--responding to tweets from Professor John Pfaff and to comments from the ACLU.
After an ACLU consent decree with the Chicago Police Department dramatically reduced the number of stop and frisks, homicides significantly increased as a result.
County attorney blames uncooperative police for the delay.
A new plan would release footage in cases of officer-involved shootings and use of force.
He "let the American people down and also the citizens of Florida," according to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
New data show roadblocks in the county occur twice as often in black neighborhoods as white ones.
The foul ups by the Broward County Sheriff's Office don't inspire confidence.
Our best hope is that commercial and cultural change will overcome the tendency to force top-down, one-size-fits-all solutions onto complicated problems.
Canvassing the legal problems and practical effects of qualified immunity from constitutional lawsuits
Disney allegedly lobbied against the bill behind the scenes.
School resource officer Scot Peterson didn't pay his dues. To unions, that's what matters.
Watch sociologist Emily Horowitz debate legal scholar Marci Hamilton at the Soho Forum.
Israel: "If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, O.J. Simpson would still be in the record books."
"Time is truly of the essence here," said a lawyer for women imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail.
In California's Santa Rita Jail, pregnant inmates were pressured to have abortions, forced to go without food, and made to live in unsanitary conditions, a new lawsuit alleges.
Some pundits want school security to be as pointlessly intrusive as airport security.
Lawmakers are considering long-overdue civil asset forfeiture reform, and law enforcement leaders aren't happy.
"The termination of Stephen Mader was yet another incident exposing the toxic culture that infects far too many police departments in America."
Cop tech can facilitate better policing, but it urgently needs more oversight.
Meanwhile, drunk driving and vehicular assault by officers are not firing offenses in Hudson County.
Families should never consent to have school resource officers search kids' phones.
In a series of protests, strip club workers and their allies are pushing back against abusive policing.
Minneapolis is being transformed into a police state.
Gorsuch advances another property rights theory of the Fourth Amendment that Alito rejects.