In late March, I joined demonstrators to protest the Los Angeles Police Department’s clearing of a large homeless encampment in the Echo Park neighborhood.
— Read on www.post-gazette.com/news/insight/2021/05/30/California-gave-people-the-right-to-be-homeless-but-little-help-finding-homes/stories/202105300027
Tag: Police Community Relationships
Shifting Police Functions
PROBLEM-SOLVING PROBLEM-ORIENTED POLICING IN NEWPORT NEWS
This is one of the BEST criminal justice crime-fighting books! It is a Classic and is still pertinent today!!!
A .pdf version of the book can be downloaded from here: www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/111964NCJRS.pdf
Report: Southampton village police has ‘excessive expenses and few controls’ | Newsday
The Southampton Village Police Department has few controls on overtime spending and receives no “tangible impact” from the officer it assigned to a regional drug task force, according to a newly relea
— Read on www.newsday.com/long-island/towns/southampton-village-police-expenses-overtime-1.50243565
The Invisible Rules That Govern Use of Force by Ion Meyn :: SSRN
This is an interesting article about the rules that govern police use of force.
Abstract
Police departments reject the idea that use of force can be governed by hard and fast rules. Under this rule-resistant view, using rules to regulate use of force would be dangerous and in practice impossible, as officers must retain broad discretion to respond to ever-changing conditions in the field. Despite the prevalence of this view, the Article finds that, behind closed doors, departments are constructing hard and fast rules that limit officer discretion.
— Read on papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm
Vol. 46, No. 2: Civil Rights Reimagining Policing
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/
Fostering Public Trust in Law Enforcement in Michigan
Don’t Require Residency for City Cops | City Journal
The push to make police officers live where they work is unnecessary and unlikely to accomplish its objectives.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/residency-requirement-for-city-cops
How Mayors Can End The Cycle Of Police Violence – The Appeal
How Mayors Can End The Cycle Of Police Violence – The Appeal
— Read on theappeal.org/the-lab/explainers/how-mayors-can-end-the-cycle-of-police-violence/
Future of Policing 