House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Policing Practices | C-SPAN.org

The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on the oversight of policing practices. This is an very interesting and telling hearing. This was a far left agenda on policing. Listen to all the legislative bills that the legislature is planning to introduce on policing. It’s crazy. Why is new FEDERAL legislation needed for local policing? I think the federal government is overreaching. It will be a nightmare for policing if the legislative bills proposed pass. I don’t see a need for the federal government to interfere with local policing.

— Read on www.c-span.org/video/

Study finds misconduct spreads among police officers like contagion | NOVA | PBS | NOVA | PBS

According to new research, reassigning police officers with a history of misconduct makes it more likely that their new peers will also misbehave.
— Read on www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/police-misconduct-peer-effects/

Looking to quell downtown disorder, Seattle and King County announce plan for repeat offenders | The Seattle Times

Businesses have been pushing local leaders to find a solution for repeat offenders for almost a year. On Thursday, Seattle and King County leaders announced the first steps.
— Read on www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/homeless/looking-to-quell-downtown-disorder-seattle-and-king-county-announce-plan-for-repeat-offenders/

Study of 100 reoffenders HERE

RACIST POLICING PERSISTS 5 years & over 6,000 cases later | PROP court monitoring report

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Biased and Abusive: The harmful effects of everyday NYPD practices | by PROP

This report serves as another reminder that every day that NYC’s political leaders sidestep this issue, our so-called criminal justice system continues its abusive and discriminatory practices. It is a painful irony that the people targeted by “broken windows” policing make up the very constituency representing the political base of the city’s leaders proud to call themselves progressives……

www.policereformorganizingproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PROP-Summer-Fall-2018-Report.pdf

When Prosecutors Bury Police Lies – The Appeal

Court records and interviews with former prosecutors show that internal assessments of police dishonesty are rarely memorialized, potentially violating the rights of people charged in criminal cases and sometimes keeping the records of bad cops clean.
— Read on theappeal.org/prosecutors-police-lies/

A field experiment on community policing and police legitimacy | PNAS

A field experiment on community policing and police legitimacy | PNAS
— Read on www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/09/10/1910157116/tab-article-info

Dozens of Philadelphia police were reinstated after top brass tried to fire them. Once-secret records show how it keeps happening

The records reveal how the police arbitration system overturned the firings or discipline of more than 100 questionable Philadelphia cops.
— Read on www.inquirer.com/news/a/philadelphia-police-problem-union-misconduct-secret-20190912.html

D.C. Police Release Long-Delayed Stop-And-Frisk Data, Showing Racial Disparities In Stops | WAMU

Long-awaited data on police stops shows that 70% of those stopped by D.C. police are African American, but Chief Peter Newsham says it’s too early to draw conclusions on police practices.

There are several interesting links in this news report.

— Read on wamu.org/story/19/09/10/d-c-police-release-long-delayed-stop-and-frisk-data-showing-racial-disparities-in-stops/