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Police Misconduct
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Australian Emergency Law
Appeal in case of police assault on mental health patient
By M. Eburn
I have previously reported on the case of Ms Music – see NSW liable for excessive use of force by police acting under the Mental Health Act (November 27, 2025). There were appeals…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
Coalition renews call for community supervision over surveillance tech
Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document. By Alexandria Staubach Wisconsin Justice Initiative has joined a new 45-organization coalition led by the ACLU…
The Justice Gap
Super complaint launches over police ‘revenge porn’ failures
A police super complaint has been launched over forces’ ‘systemic failures’ to police image-based sex crimes.The challenge draws on testimony from over 100 survivors, police data from across England and…
JURIST
Family of Minneapolis woman killed by ICE agents files two federal lawsuits
The family of Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis mother of three who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in January, filed two federal civil…
Legal History Blog
Cilli on the NAACP and Police Aggression in 1939
By Dan Ernst
Adam Lee Cilli, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, has published Confronting Police Aggression: The NAACP's Legal Advocacy Work during the Great Migration in Freedom A Journal of Research in Africana…
Jotwell
Leviathan Twisted: The Supreme Court’s Legitimation of Police Violence
Alice Ristroph is one of our foremost philosophers of police violence. She has provided important clarity about the physical nature of “force” and its effect on human bodies, and painstakingly…
Kirakosian Law Blog
How Do You Prove Police Intended to Violate Your Rights Under California’s Bane Act?
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies told my client, on body camera, that he brought his own arrest on himself. “You ruined it.” “That’s what happens when you want to…
Kirakosian Law Blog
What Is Reasonable Suspicion? Understanding Your Rights During Police Stops
Reasonable suspicion is the legal standard that allows a police officer to briefly stop and question you, based on specific, articulable facts suggesting that criminal activity may be occurring. It…
California Appellate Report
Medrano v. Acosta (9th Cir. – Sept. 25, 2026)
By Shaun Martin
District Judge Frimpong held that officers were potentially liable if they indeed did what Alex Medrano said they did, so denied their motion for qualified immunity. On appeal, Judges Callahan…
Kirakosian Law Blog
Can Police Arrest You for Asking If They Have Reasonable Suspicion?
Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies had already agreed my client was free to go to his room and sleep. Then he asked them one lawful question: “Do you have…