This issue of Human Rights magazine focuses on policing in America. The horrific events of 2020 have brought heightened attention to a longstanding problem of policing in America.
— Read on www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/civil-rights-reimagining-policing/
Tag: Criminal Justice System
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition | The New Yorker
Mariame Kaba, a New York City-based activist and organizer, is at the center of an effort to “build up another world.”
— Read on www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-emerging-movement-for-police-and-prison-abolition
Public Health Violence Prevention: Supporting Law Enforcement | USU
As frustrations over inequalities in policing and law enforcement continue despite attempted reforms (Beckett, 2016), many are asking for a more effective approach. A 2018 issue statement from the American Public Health Association
(2018) highlights that violence is a public health issue that will not go away without the influence of a public health approach. The integrated biological-psychological-social model of health recognizes the complexity in the ways individuals are influenced by their situations, with violence as the unfortunate result of the wrong mix of circumstances. The public health approach to violence focuses on prevention as part of the solution.
— Read on extension.usu.edu/heart/research/violence-prevention-supporting-law-enforcement
Decentering Police to Improve Public Safety
Huntsville Police Review – Independent Counsel
The Huntsville City Council authorized the Huntsville Police Citizens Advisory Council “[t]o fully review the protests and demonstrations which began on or about May 30, 2020, especially those which occurred on June 1 and 3, 2020, as to the interactions between the protestors and demonstrators and the Huntsville Police Department . . . .” HPCAC retained Liz Huntley and Jack Sharman of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC as independent counsel to assist with HPCAC’s review.
— Read on huntsvillepolicereview.com/
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
This is an interesting resource to help keep track of some of the codified changes to policing.
Tracking Police Reform
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
— Read on www.ncsl.org/research/civil-and-criminal-justice/legislative-responses-for-policing.aspx
REIMAGINING SAFETY Northampton Policing Review Commmission Report
National Registry of Exonerations
About the Registry
The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the Newkirk Center for Science & Society at University of California Irvine, the University of Michigan Law School and Michigan State University College of Law. It was founded in 2012 in conjunction with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The Registry provides detailed information about every known exoneration in the United States since 1989—cases in which a person was wrongly convicted of a crime and later cleared of all the charges based on new evidence of innocence. The Registry also maintains a more limited database of known exonerations prior to 1989.
The website for the National Registry of Exonerations is HERE
National Registry of Exonerations 2020 Annual Report is HERE
The New York State Trial Penalty: The Constitutional Right to Trial Under Attack
The ‘trial penalty’ refers to the substantial difference between the sentence offered in a plea offer prior to trial versus the sentence a defendant receives after trial. This penalty is now so severe and pervasive that it has virtually eliminated the constitutional right to a trial. To avoid the penalty, accused persons must surrender many other fundamental rights which are essential to a fair justice system.
Read on here …….
Get the publication HERE
Social Fabric: A New Model for Public Safety and Vital Neighborhoods
Overview
Should the police own safety? For the past forty years, localities across the country have responded with a resounding “yes,” as the primary response to crime has been to call upon the police and criminal justice system. That approach has come with harms, long understood in communities of color and further underscored last summer by the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death. These harms undermine the trust that should be the very foundation of any system of justice.
This paper argues that there is a different and more durable model, based on the oldest of ideas and eminently doable, especially in this moment of pandemic-straitened budgets: tight-knit communities, where residents are brought together through local institutions and have access to basic civic resources, are the places where safety thrives.
Find the FULL report and Executive Summary HERE
Future of Policing 