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Policing
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Legal Theory Blog
Lewis & Usmani on a Structural Theory of the Carceral State
Christopher Lewis (Harvard Law School; Harvard Society of Fellows) & Adaner Usmani (Harvard University) have posted Abolition of What? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article defends a structural…
TortsProf Blog
Swan on Public Duties for the New City
Sarah Swan has posted to SSRN Public Duties for the New City. The abstract provides:The first job of a government is to protect its people, and, in the United States, the…
Law Times News
Information and Privacy Commissioner calls for retention of public input in Policing Act amendments
The repeal would undermine the principles of transparency and accountability: IPC
Criminal
“The Verdict on Private Criminal Justice”
The title of this post is the title of this book chapter now available via SSRN which is the final chapter of the book Private Criminal Justice authored by my…
Criminal
The Sentencing Project releases latest report on racial disparities, “One in Five: Disparities in Crime and Policing”
As noted in this post last month, The Sentencing Project has announced that it is "producing a series of four reports examining both the narrowing and persistence of racial injustice…
Human Rights at Home Blog
Event 10/5: Human Rights Approaches to Reimagining Policing and Community Safety in the United States
On October 5, 2023, from 12:00PM to 1:30PM EDT, join the ACLU and UNARC for a webinar discussion with the Human Rights Council on two reports written by the UN…
Simple Justice
The Streets of Oakland
For the most part, arguments about policing are based on statistics of crime rising or waning, punctuated by stories of horrific police abuse or horrific crimes. But the view from…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
Public Safety Video Briefing: Sir Robert Peel and Modern Policing – July 2023
By Paul D. Knothe, Guest Author
Our short Public Safety Video Briefings will tackle cutting-edge issues and core principles relevant to public safety employers. We hope you find these videos useful and thought-provoking. https://vimeo.com/842587534
Other
“Fighting Crime Requires More Police and Less Prosecution”
The title of this post is the headline of this notable new Bloomberg opinion piece by Justin Fox than is built around an interview with Jennifer Doleac (WaPo reprint here). …
The Right Coast
What Killed Tyre Nichols | City Journal
Is U.S. policing in a death spiral? Yes, as long as the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by five Memphis police officers is portrayed as a manifestation of racism. The…