Month: October 2025

Hennepin County Attorney’s Office introduces new strategy, comment period on prosecutions stemming from non-public safety traffic stops | Hennepin County

The Hennepin County Attorney’s Office unveiled a new strategy on its prosecutions of cases emanating from a non-public safety traffic stop, also known as a “pretext” stop.

Read the entire Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy here.

The Non-Public Safety Traffic Stop Policy is scheduled to be implemented on October 15, 2025, after a period to allow feedback from system and community partners
— Read on www.hennepinattorney.org/news/news/2025/september/nps-traffic-stop-policy

Generalized Stop and Frisk is Not the Answer: Improved Strategies for Violent Street Crime Reduction – National Policing Institute

A recent article on stops and searches by the Metropolitan Police in London has reignited debate about the use of stop, question, and frisk (SQF) in the United States. Piquero and Sherman (2025)1 analyzed 15 years of stop and search data from the Metropolitan Police and found a correlation between increases and decreases in stop and search encounters (SSE) and subsequent rates of serious injuries and homicides in London, primarily from knife attacks. In short, knife-related assaults and deaths went down when British police stopped and searched more people in public, and they went up when police stopped and searched fewer people. What do these findings mean for U.S. law enforcement? Should police in America stop and frisk more people as a strategy to reduce violent street crime, crimes that in the U.S. usually involve guns rather than knives?
— Read on www.policinginstitute.org/onpolicing/stop-and-frisk-alternatives-violent-crime-reduction/

Former OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong’s whistleblower lawsuit rejected again

Armstrong’s claims against the city over his firing by Sheng Thao “do not rise to the level” of legal violations, a state judge ruled last week.
— Read on oaklandside.org/2025/10/21/oakland-police-chief-leronne-armstrongs-whistleblower-lawsuit-dismissed/

Check out these two other articles:

Former Police Chief Armstrong sues Oakland, mayor, wants job back ….. and …..

Federal judge rules against former Oakland police chief

Court hears arguments on when police may enter a home without a warrant – SCOTUSblog

Court hears arguments on when police may enter a home without a warrant – SCOTUSblog
— Read on www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/court-hears-arguments-on-when-police-may-enter-a-home-without-a-warrant/

No. 24-624 William Trevor Case, Petitioner v. Montana

See all court documents, especially Amicus Briefs HERE

Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will — ProPublica

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.
— Read on www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will

Now is Not the Time to “Moderate” on the Police

Prominent mayoral candidates are distancing themselves from “defund” and instead offering “cops and more” public safety plans. But that approach neglects the victims of police brutality and risks further entrenching police legitimacy and power.
— Read on www.currentaffairs.org/news/now-is-not-the-time-to-moderate-on-the-police