Something interesting caught my eye the other day as I was reading Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice blog. Apparently, FoxNews ran a piece the other day in which a professor from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice suggested that police are being targeted and that sites like this one are to blame because we [...]
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In the years that I’ve been monitoring and researching the issue of police misconduct I’ve noticed some prevalent, and quite successful, arguments used by those who feel there is no need for improved police accountability and transparency and that police misconduct isn’t a problem worthy of attention. However, the statistics generated by the NPMSRP [...] URGENT UPDATE! -04/13/10 21:36PST Folks, congress is apparently trying to push this one through on a fast track. Last night Senator Harry Reid introduced Senate bill 3194 that has nearly identical wording as S.1611 and HR 413 in a way that will force it to the Senate floor for a vote tomorrow which [...] The King County Washington Sheriff’s Office announced yesterday that they want to create a specialized multi-agency task force to identify and track people they suspect of showing risky or threatening tendencies towards law enforcement and is seeking federal funding to use this as a pilot project for law enforcement agencies across the US. [...] Washington state suffered a larger number of police officer deaths in 2009 due to two highly publicized shooting incidents where police officers were randomly targeted by individuals with a grudge. In response to this, the Washington state legislature and governor have been working hard to find ways to show that they care about law [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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