All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
The testimony of the Minneapolis Officers on the riots and lawlessness begins at the 1 hour 18 minute mark.
In the continuing investigation of the rioting and lawlessness following the death of George Floyd, the oversight committee reviews the highway protests and closures and hears from Minneapolis Police and Peace Officers Association.
As cellphone video documenting the last breaths of George Floyd spread across the internet, so did the collective outrage.
— Read on apnews.com/article/george-floyd-photo-gallery-dd52c4c5ca834e3e39d53276745082b0
Baltimore comptroller calls for a shift in priorities, reminding us that a city’s budget reflects its values. Prioritizing police over children is a problem.
— Read on afro.com/baltimore-prioritizes-police-youth/
Street protests have been a common feature of human society for many centuries. They often act as a driver of social changes but they may also disrupt everyday life and lead to considerable economic losses. Understanding of factors that may affect the duration of street protests and the number of participants is a problem of pivotal importance. Mathematical modelling is an efficient research approach to study this problem. Here we present a novel modelling framework that takes into account heterogeneity of protesters behaviour and the effect of policing. Using the 2018–2019 Yellow Vest Movement in France as a case study, we show that our model is in a very good agreement with data. We also show that a moderate increase in the efficiency of police actions on particular days may have a significant effect on protest’s intensity and duration. Our findings open a possibility for a more efficient protests management.
— Read on journals.plos.org/plosone/article
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals panel on Wednesday affirmed a record settlement resolving a federal class action over so-called “kettling” tactics used by New York City law enforcement to trap civil rights protesters.
A three-judge panel for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a summary order that the Police Benevolent Association, the largest of New York City’s five police unions, failed to demonstrate that it would suffer “legal prejudice” from upholding a lower court’s dismissal of the union’s intervenor claims against the massive settlement agreement and overhaul of NYPD protest policing tactics.
A Manhattan federal district court judge previously rejected the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York’s objections to the settlement as a third-party intervenor, and on appeal, the Second Circuit affirmed the lower court tossing out the union’s safety objections on a motion to dismiss.
— Read on www.courthousenews.com/nypd-union-cant-overturn-record-police-brutality-settlement/
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
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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
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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