All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
A new report released by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in part questions whether the school could have pursued alternative responses to a heavy police presence during campus protests of the war in Gaza last year.
— Read on www.wbur.org/news/2025/01/17/massachusetts-college-encampment-protest-gaza
Get the report HERE
After the Senate failed in 2021 to pass a bipartisan package of law enforcement reforms — the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act — the Biden administration sought to implement as much of the legislation as possible through executive order. Signed May 2022 on the second anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, the action aimed “to promote safe and accountable policing” in myriad ways.
— Read on www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/trump-reverses-biden-directive-policing-reforms
In Balogh v. Virginia, the court held police have no duty to intervene to protect protesters from third-party violence during a rally
— Read on www.police1.com/legal/police-not-liable-for-failure-to-intervene-against-counter-protesters
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Fourteen current and former MPD officers say they believe MPD Assistant Chief Katie Blackwell perjured herself during Derek Chauvin’s trial.
— Read on alphanews.org/over-a-dozen-current-and-former-officers-say-they-believe-mpds-katie-blackwell-perjured-herself-during-derek-chauvin-trial/
Seattle’s Community Police Commission was created to amplify the voices of communities affected by policing and weigh in on police reform. But internal conflicts, vacancies, and turnover have frustrated that mission in recent years, according to an outside review.
Now members say they’re trying to move forward in time to influence the city’s latest ordinance governing crowd management and less-lethal weapons.
Seattle’s Community Police Commission was created as part of the city’s 2012 consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department, after federal officials found a pattern of unconstitutional excessive force by police.
— Read on www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-community-police-commission-seeks-to-regroup-from-internal-turmoil
The ACLU of Kentucky, on behalf of itself and 14 other community organizations, on Friday filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of the negotiated consent decree the US Department of Justice entered with Louisville Metro Government last month.
— Read on www.aclu-ky.org/en/press-releases/aclu-ky-files-brief-supporting-us-doj-consent-decree
This is an interesting and straightforward discussion on Procedural Justice. More of an overview on Procedural Justice. The host Dr. Scott Phillips is a great guy that I know personally. The guest Dr. Justin Nix is a excellent professor that I follow on Twitter. Check out Nix’s website.
Procedural Justice is more than a simple buzzword. It is related to police legitimacy, de-escalation, hot spots policing, and organizational justice.This week we talk with Dr. Justin Nix, a Distinguished Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University…
— Read on www.buzzsprout.com/2413505/episodes/16416693-episode-5-procedural-justice
The themed section featuring a series of articles by contributors who consider the background of, and offer a narrative about, the riots that took place in August 2011.
— Read on www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/publications/cjm/edition/cjm-87-august-2011-riots
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