How America talks about police violence five years after Michael Brown – Vox

Brown’s death made America more aware of police violence. But police reform is still a work in progress.
— Read on www.vox.com/identities/2019/8/9/20798921/michael-brown-ferguson-uprising-police-violence-reform

Trade secrets vs. due process | Modern Policing

This article discusses the conflict that arises when evidence against a defendant is rooted in privately developed technology or software. Examples include probabilistic DNA typing, algorithms, breathalyzers, and stingray cell-site simulators. Defense efforts to challenge the validity of evidence derived from these technologies are often stymied by refusals to reveal key details about how they…
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2019/08/05/trade-secrets-vs-due-process/

Video: LEOs TASER knife-wielding man attempting suicide by cop inside stationhouse

“The government is f—ing with me. I want you to shoot me,” he blurted out
— Read on www.policeone.com/edged-weapons/articles/484549006-video-leos-taser-knife-wielding-man-attempting-suicide-by-cop-inside-stationhouse/

Police Data Initiative

This is supposed to be a partnership on supplying and analyzing police data. There may be some accessible and useful data for criminal justice projects.

Home – Police Data Initiative
— Read on www.policedatainitiative.org/

Ferguson: As It Unfolded

This is an interesting article to outline how the events in Ferguson unfolded.

The killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer on a Ferguson street was the spark that ignited years of frustration, distrust and anger. Protests, fueled by social media, spread; new issues emerged. Here, from the epicenter, is the story of Ferguson.
— Read on graphics.stltoday.com/ferguson/

More…….

Ferguson diagnosed a national illness. But five years later, it hasn’t been cured.

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ferguson-diagnosed-a-national-illness-but-five-years-later-it/article_c9971e95-c856-5b76-8db4-750e1e0a31aa.html

3 Arrested in New York City Water Bucket Attacks – Patrol – POLICE Magazine

Attempting to drown police officers with water has become some of the most recent viral videos. This is dangerous for the police and the public. Note this is not the same as squirting your favorite uncle at the family reunion.

This is dangerous because the H2O attackers have interfered with arrests, sprayed an unknown liquid on officers, hit officers with squirt guns and plastic buckets, grabbed onto officers, and damaged property.

Hopefully with police making an arrest this won’t become a growing trend.

Police in New York City have arrested three men in connection with the water bucket attacks in which police officers were doused with water in videos that were posted to social media on Monday.
— Read on www.policemag.com/519156/3-arrested-in-new-york-city-water-bucket-attacks

Union reaction to the initial attack

https://www.nycpba.org/press-releases/2019/statement-on-water-bucket-attacks/

Guidance Memo NYPD

https://twitter.com/nyscanner/status/1153701198903611392?s=21

HERE is an alternative view.

New legislation to protect police

How to fight gun violence in American cities – Vox

This is a nice article that outlines Abt’s book “Bleeding Out”. It has links to other useful and interesting publications.

Urban gun violence is a big problem. Thomas Abt’s new book, Bleeding Out, offers a solution.
— Read on www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/7/12/20679091/thomas-abt-bleeding-out-urban-gun-violence-book-review

Kerner Report Resources

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/8073NCJRS.pdf

Summary report http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/kerner.pdf

The Haas Institute has a conference about the 50th anniversary of The Kerner Report. There is a publication (listed below) and videos from the conference at there website. They lean far left.

The Haas Institute

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/

Several Links here. Links to the conference videos.

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/road-not-taken

PUBLICATION:

The Road Not Taken: Housing and Criminal Justice 50 Years After the Kerner Commission Report

https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/haas_institute_road_not_taken_kerner_publish_may_2019.pdf

The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/rsf.4.issue-6?refreqid=excelsior%3Abeb9e7f8723ec6ba3edae780c80156b1

What together we can do A forty year update of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders

https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/events/materials/kernerexecutivesummary.pdf

The Kerner Commission Report Fifty Years Later: Revisiting the American Dream