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24 Aug 2016, 6:09 pm by Samuel Goldberg
Activists had called for this program for a while, since  the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, two years ago. [read post]
22 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
After Michael Brown, a Black teenager, was shot dead by police in Ferguson, Missouri, Sarsour traveled there to join the Black Lives Matter protests. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 8:00 am
THE POLICE SHOOTING AND KILLING of an unarmed Black teenager named Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, sparked civil unrest in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 4:21 pm by CJLF Staff
" Hint to the media: He was referring to black children in those cities, such as the ten children under the age of ten killed in Baltimore last year; the nine-year-old girl fatally shot while doing homework on her mother's bed in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2015; and the nine-year-old boy in Chicago lured into an alley and killed by his father's gang enemies in November 2015, writes MacDonald. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 3:00 am by SOG Staff
Missouri City Settles Suit Alleging Unconstitutional Incarceration. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 3:00 am by SOG Staff
Missouri City Settles Suit Alleging Unconstitutional Incarceration. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 1:01 pm by CJLF Staff
  Under a May 2015 executive order, military equipment like helmets, grenades and tracked armor vehicles were banned amid public outcry of their use during protests in cities such as Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
16 Jul 2016, 4:22 pm by Eugene Volokh
The reason is what Heather Mac Donald first identified nationally as the “Ferguson effect”: Since the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, officers have been backing off of proactive policing, and criminals are becoming emboldened. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 10:45 am
In addition to Baton Rouge and New Orleans, he will visit Baltimore, Ferguson, Jackson, New York City, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. [read post]
12 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, during 2014, many people pointed to the police use of tanks and other weapons and tactics of warfare as a serious problem facing the country.There are at least three concerns with respect to militarization. [read post]
10 Jul 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Matthew Feeney on Baton Rouge shooting of Alton Sterling [Cato Daily Podcast] People who aren’t cops don’t get a day off before a shooting investigation [Jonathan Blanks, PoliceMisconduct.net] LEOBRs aside, “Police union contracts in 72 of 81 cities reviewed make it harder to hold police accountable” [Anthony Fisher, Reason] Missouri judge strikes down post-Ferguson state law limiting how much municipalities can keep from fines and fees [St. [read post]
24 May 2016, 7:26 am by Bill Otis
Even the liberal website Vox has grudgingly concluded that "the Ferguson effect theory is narrowly correct, at least in some cities. [read post]
21 May 2016, 6:34 pm by Tom Smith
" Like many academic criminologists, he had pooh-poohed charges that skyrocketing murder rates in many cities in 2015 and 2016 result from a "Ferguson effect" -- a skittering back from proactive policing for fear of accusations of racism like those that followed the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014. [read post]
19 May 2016, 2:56 pm by CJLF Staff
Louis criminologist Richard Rosenfeld admitting that, after looking over 2015 data from 56 large cities and noting that homicides jumped 17% and as much as 33% in some cities from 2014, "[t]he only explanation that gets the timing right is a version of the Ferguson effect. [read post]
19 May 2016, 7:45 am
 — to help reestablish public trust after the 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the long list of other unarmed black men killed by cops in Anytown, USA. [read post]
13 May 2016, 1:26 pm by CJLF Staff
  He faces charges of first-degree murder, burglary and criminal action in the Missouri case, and Missouri prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The larger District of Louisiana was simultaneously renamed the Missouri Territory. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 10:35 am by Gwenyth Gamble
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri [official website] on Tuesday approved a settlement agreement [text, PDF] between the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] and the city of Ferguson, Missouri [official website]. [read post]