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Scott Greenfield, over at Simple Justice, put up a post yesterday about an incident in Broward County Florida where a plain-clothes police officer was accused of assaulting and falsely arresting a homeless man and the alleged incident was captured on video while also corroborated by a witness. One of the questions about this incident that sparked [...] I thought I would try something new this month and devote an article to various reports that covered police accountability/transparency policy issues for the month. These reports generally don’t go into the statistical reports, but they do affect those statistics so I thought it would be a good idea to go over those reports each [...] In 2006, US Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia rendered an opinion in Hudson v Michigan concerning a Fourth Amendment violation case in which he heralded a previously unannounced age of “New Professionalism” for US law enforcement. This new age cited reforms in accountability that would remove the need for civil rights protections as police departments [...] An image to illustrate the current state of affairs in the battle against police misconduct… On the left a typical anti-misconduct protest and the image on the right is a police union protest against police accountability. In the comment section of our Worst Police Misconduct Videos of 2009 Reader’s Poll a commenter named Juliet [...] One of the things I try to keep aware of in the course of this project is that what I’m doing is not popular. So, while disappointing, it shouldn’t have been surprising that the NPMSRP was turned down for funding by the Open Society Institute’s Justice Fellowship and that the OSI has never awarded a [...] Just wanted to let everyone know I probably won’t get the chance to post up anything today and the news feed might be a bit slow to update because I’m swamped at work, sorry about that… However, one thing I did want to mention that I had noticed last night, but won’t include in the news [...] On the same day a study released a damning report finding that Chicago’s civil service review board overturns decisions to discipline police officers found to have committed acts of misconduct in a majority of cases and that officers found to have committed misconduct are rarely fired because of this… The city announced that they are moving [...] According to the DOJ/FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program there are 14,169 county and city law enforcement agencies that participate in their UCR statistics gathering project on crime rates in the US. We can estimate from there that there are, perhaps, at least 15,000 law enforcement agencies in the US since one state, West Virginia, [...] Labor unions exist, theoretically, to do little more than defend the interests of that union’s members against the interests of those that employ those members. On the face of it, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with this arrangement, in fact it should be viewed as necessary in some situations. But, there can be problems with the [...] |
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