Category: CRJ302 Community & CJ

Model Legislation to Modernize Anti-KKK Masking Laws for Intimidating Protesters | Manhattan Institute

Just as Ku Klux Klan members used white hoods to conceal their identities and terrorize their targets, modern activists are using keffiyehs, Guy Fawkes masks, balaclavas, and other inherently intimidating face coverings. Indeed, face-masking is pervasive among participants in demonstrations that are growing in frequency and disruptiveness. Most recently, the pro-Hamas “protests” that have proliferated […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/model-legislation-to-modernize-anti-kkk-masking-laws-for-intimidating-protesters

Autonomous, Not Untouchable: New Report Urges Canada to Rethink Police Accountability | Frontier Centre For Public Policy

Winnipeg, September 2024 – A new report from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy titled “They Must Not Become the Law Unto Themselves: Bringing Made-in-Canada Democratic Accountability to Autonomous Policing” argues that police independence in Canada is misunderstood, and this confusion is eroding public trust and creating dangerous policing inconsistencies.
The report, authored by Joseph Quesnel, Senior Research Fellow with the Frontier Centre, takes a hard look at the doctrine of police independence and its evolution, asserting that police should not be viewed as completely independent entities but as autonomous institutions accountable to elected officials and, ultimately, the Canadian public.
— Read on fcpp.org/2024/09/25/autonomous-not-untouchable-new-report-urges-canada-to-rethink-police-accountability/

Federal Efforts in Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities among Victims of Violent Crime | U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

This report aimed to understand federal efforts to evaluate racial disparities in crime victimization. The Commission examined crime data to reveal the disparate impacts of violent victimization on minority communities.
— Read on www.usccr.gov/reports/2024/federal-efforts-examining-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-among-victims-violent-crime

Tyreek Hill’s traffic stop can be a reminder of drivers’ constitutional rights | AP News

Below is a nice discussion about constitutional rights.

The question of one’s responsibility to comply with all instructions given by a law enforcement officer recently came up following a traffic stop involving Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
— Read on apnews.com/article/tyreek-hill-constitutional-rights-traffic-stop-6dd2ad077cecd176bea840ba77012d6a