“Get on the Ground!”: Policing, Poverty, and Racial Inequality in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Category: Police
Congressional Hearing Testimony on Policing Veered Sharply From the Truth.
Congressional Hearing Testimony on Policing Veered Sharply From the Truth.
Heather MacDonald was railroaded in this hearing. The committee had no intent to use her testimony. MacDonald was never called upon after her introduction and then a few minute defense of it after a panelist next to Heather attacked her opening statement which was very unusual.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/police-shootings-racial-bias
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/
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/
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.
WANU Stop and Frisk webpage
TV station WANU has a webpage dedicated to DC Police Stop and Frisk. Access it HERE
DC Police data page HERE
Gatekeepers: The Role of Police in Ending Mass Incarceration | Vera Institute
Police in America arrest millions of people each year, and the likelihood that arrest will lead to jail incarceration has increased steadily. Ending mass…
— Read on www.vera.org/publications/gatekeepers-police-and-mass-incarceration
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police’s 64th National Biennial Conference | OPA | Department of Justice
Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks at the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police’s 64th National Biennial Conference | OPA | Department of Justice
— Read on www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-william-p-barr-delivers-remarks-grand-lodge-fraternal-order-polices-64th
Future of Policing 