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For decades, the doctrine of qualified immunity has protected law enforcement and other government officials from being held accountable when they violate individuals’ constitutional rights.
The rule specifically protects officials from personal consequences as long as they were acting in good faith.
The U.S. Supreme Court introduced the doctrine in 1967’s Pierson v. Ray to protect police officers from financial liability after they arrested 15 clergy members for breaching the peace after they attempted to use a segregated waiting room at a bus station.
The court revised and expanded the doctrine in 1982 by eliminating the requirement that officers must have acted in good faith and requiring that officers must have violated “clearly established law” to forgo immunity. However qualified immunity protections have developed over time to value precedent over good faith.
— Read on wdet.org/2024/07/09/how-police-misconduct-is-protected-through-qualified-immunity/
Category: CRJ302 Community & CJ
Police Reform Home Page | Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative
Plans from every New York police agency is available here. There are other resources at the website.
Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative
— Read on policereform.ny.gov/
Police Reform Home Page | Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative
Police Reform Home Page | Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative
— Read on policereform.ny.gov/
Vital City | The Golden Age of Crime Reduction Is Now
What makes cities great is what makes crime low.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-golden-age-of-crime-reduction-is-now
Wide variation in rates of police killings suggests unnecessary deaths
One in three police homicides could have been avoided without endangering police or the public, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Eight percent of all homicides of adult men in the United States are committed …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-wide-variation-police-unnecessary-deaths.html
Researcher finds police killings can discourage engagement with local government
Following police killings, residents of the surrounding community are less likely to engage with their local government, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher.
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-07-police-discourage-engagement-local.html
All of the Above: Prosecutors alone won’t end mass incarceration. But their interventions can mean the world to people staring down the many harms of criminalization.
I’m grateful to the five contributors who graciously wrote such thoughtful responses to the short essay by James Forman, Jr., Maria Hawilo, and me, adapted from our forthcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration. I’m encouraged that people with such depth of experience agree that taking apart our system of mass incarceration requires grappling with the question of progressive prosecutors, though we may disagree about exactly what that will mean about their role in the long term.
— Read on inquest.org/all-of-the-above/
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson – SCOTUSblog
Question
Does a city’s enforcement of public camping against involuntarily homeless people violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson – SCOTUSblog
— Read on www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/city-of-grants-pass-oregon-v-johnson/
See the decision here:
Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties – SCOTUSblog
Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties – SCOTUSblog
— Read on www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-uphold-laws-targeting-homelessness-with-criminal-penalties/
Investing in Sergeants and Supervisors
Agencies nationwide and internationally are reporting challenges in maintaining the staffing of both sworn and professional support staff. There is little, if any, debate among law enforcement executives that recruiting challenges today are a major concern for agencies. As agencies struggle to revise and retool decades-long recruiting strategies to meet demand, their daily expectations only increase. Advancements in technology, such as AI, offer as many threats as opportunities. Policing the dark web is a recognized challenge in the profession, necessitating the evolution of specialists among our ranks (PERF, 2019). In a time where agency leaders need to focus on evolving with the nature of crime and leveraging technology, most are swimming in the quicksand of a seemingly constant recruiting loop.
In the “business” side of policing, the majority of agencies are not getting a good return on investment (ROI) from recruiting. The investment in attracting, selecting, and training personnel is multi-faceted and includes the impact of the media and political coverage of events such as Ferguson and Minneapolis, Defund the Police, the retirement bubble, and the preferences and values of Gen Z, where work-life balance is not historically associated with police work.
Future of Policing 