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
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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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Just as Ku Klux Klan members used white hoods to conceal their identities and terrorize their targets, modern activists are using keffiyehs, Guy Fawkes masks, balaclavas, and other inherently intimidating face coverings. Indeed, face-masking is pervasive among participants in demonstrations that are growing in frequency and disruptiveness. Most recently, the pro-Hamas “protests” that have proliferated […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/model-legislation-to-modernize-anti-kkk-masking-laws-for-intimidating-protesters
Just as Ku Klux Klan members used white hoods to conceal their identities and terrorize their targets, modern activists are using keffiyehs, Guy Fawkes masks, balaclavas, and other inherently intimidating face coverings. Indeed, face-masking is pervasive among participants in demonstrations that are growing in frequency and disruptiveness. Most recently, the pro-Hamas “protests” that have proliferated […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/model-legislation-to-modernize-anti-kkk-masking-laws-for-intimidating-protesters
To clear universities of student protesters, administrators and police borrowed from a ready-made political playbook: sweeping the homeless.
— Read on newrepublic.com/article/185368/gaza-student-protests-homeless-encampments-police
After all that violence, we face the choice that confronted Cameron and Thatcher: to seek real explanations or move blindly forward, says criminologist Tim Newburn
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/04/riots-racism-poverty-drink-social-media-southport
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