Tag: Criminal Justice System

“Impacts of Successive Drug Legislation Shifts: Qualitative Observation” Portland Measure 110 year one

This report provides the initial findings of Year 1 of a multi year project to understand the effects of successive drug policy efforts in Oregon, with special focus given to Ballot Measure 110 (M110).
Related Reports:Key Points in Preparation for Oregon Legislative Session (2024): Examining the Multifaceted Impacts of Drug Decriminalization on Public Safety, Law Enforcement, and Prosecutorial Discretion (December 2023)
An Additive Model of Engagement: Considering The Role of Front-End Criminal Justice Agencies in Treatment Provisions [Interim Report: Year Two]
— Read on pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/ccj_fac/114/

Report: Portland Measure 110 had little impact on law enforcement | kgw.com

A second report from Portland State University researchers looked at Measure 110’s impact on police stops, searches and arrests — finding little link to a decline.
— Read on www.kgw.com/article/ news/local/the-story/measure-110-oregon-psu-drug-crime-report-study/283-fec1e85b-f68d-440f-a267-83107aa2bebb

Get the 2nd year report here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MsT3hgYZb9schz3FDs3yzxzBNB_rjR-H/view?usp=drivesdk

Rethinking the Crime of Rioting lawreview – Minnesota Law Review

By Nick Robinson. Full Text. The fear of riots has long loomed large in the public imagination. This fear is at least partly justified. Riots can present unique challenges, both in the harm they can cause and in the government’s ability to control them. However, from the American colonies to the Civil Rights era, there lawreview – Minnesota Law Review
— Read on minnesotalawreview.org/article/rethinking-the-crime-of-rioting/

How police misconduct is protected through ‘qualified immunity’ – WDET 101.9 FM

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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/

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/