This has examples of police policies and standards. Spend some time to examine the different resources that are available on the website.
Ohio Collaborative
— Read on www.ocjs.ohio.gov/ohiocollaborative/standards.html
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Traffic Without the Police by Jordan Blair Woods :: SSRN
This is part of an agenda drive movement to eliminate the police. Very dangerous thinking! There is no circumstance where citizens would be safer without police. Here is the other side. Choose for yourself.
We are at a watershed moment in which growing national protest and public outcry over police injustice and brutality, especially against people of color, are an
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
Firm proposes 64 recommendations to Tacoma police policy, including use of force rules
Structural Reform Team Recommendations » Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee
Police Reform: Equal Treatment of Black Americans
— Read on indygipc.org/initiatives/race-and-the-legal-process-working-group/structural-reform-team-recommendations/
Report to Strengthen UMPD Alignment with UMN Expectations
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (“UMN”) seeks to provide a safe and secure environment for students, faculty, staff and administration through the University of Minnesota Department of Public Safety (“DPS”) and University of Minnesota Police Department (“UMPD”). For many university stakeholders, crime is a growing concern on and near the campus. The breakdown in relationships between the UMPD and the UMN campus community is also a significant concern.
Death by the State – Police Killings and Jail Deaths in St. Louis
This report has an interesting format from how other reports of this type are published.
ArchCity Defenders identified at least 179 people who were killed by police or who died in jail custody between 2009 to 2019 in the St. Louis Region.
Get the report HERE
The NYPD Files – Still Can’t Breathe
This is an article by ProPublica that explores the use of chokeholds by NYPD officers.
How NYPD officers continue to use chokeholds — which can be deadly and are explicitly prohibited by the department — on civilians, while officers with substantiated claims of abuse go without any meaningful punishment.
Read the article HERE
Forensic Science
REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods
“Forensic science” has been defined as the application of scientific or technical practices to the recognition, collection, analysis, and interpretation of evidence for criminal and civil law or regulatory issues. Developments over the past two decades—including the exoneration of defendants who had been wrongfully convicted based in part on forensic-science evidence, a variety of studies of the scientific underpinnings of the forensic disciplines, reviews of expert testimony based on forensic findings, and scandals in state crime laboratories—have called increasing attention to the question of the validity and reliability of some important forms of forensic evidence and of testimony based upon them. Get a copy of the report HERE
Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
The Senate Report also sets forth the charge to the Forensic Science Committee, instructing it to:
- assess the present and future resource needs of the forensic science community, to include State and local crime labs, medical examin-ers, and coroners;
- make recommendations for maximizing the use of forensic tech-nologies and techniques to solve crimes, investigate deaths, and protect the public;
- identify potential scientific advances that may assist law enforce-ment in using forensic technologies and techniques to protect the public;
- make recommendations for programs that will increase the number of qualified forensic scientists and medical examiners available to work in public crime laboratories;
- disseminate best practices and guidelines concerning the collection and analysis of forensic evidence to help ensure quality and con-sistency in the use of forensic technologies and techniques to solve crimes, investigate deaths, and protect the public;
- examine the role of the forensic community in the homeland secu-rity mission;
- [examine] interoperability of Automated Fingerprint Information Systems [AFIS]; and
- examine additional issues pertaining to forensic science as deter-mined by the Committee.
Get the Senate report HERE
Consent Decree Monitoring Team for Baltimore City
The Baltimore Police Monitoring Team oversees the implementation of a Consent Decree—a judicially-enforceable agreement—between the City of Baltimore and the United States. The Consent Decree requires the Baltimore City Police Department to adopt a number of specific reforms aimed at ensuring effective, safe, and constitutional policing.
Access it HERE
Chasing Justice – Addressing Police Violence and Corruption in Maryland | ACLU of Maryland
Between 2015 and 2019, there were 13,392 complaints of misconduct filed against 1,826 Baltimore City police officers and 22,884 use of force incidents in Baltimore. Among the many disturbing facts that the report, “Chasing Justice: Addressing Police Violence and Corruption in Maryland,” uncovers are that 91 percent of those who the police targeted with use of force were Black
— Read on www.aclu-md.org/en/publications/chasing-justice-addressing-police-violence-and-corruption-maryland
Future of Policing 