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13 Apr 2016, 9:59 am
* * *After some cities saw a rise in crime last year, police chiefs and even the head of the FBI suggested that the United States was experiencing a "Ferguson effect": Police officers sensitive to public scrutiny in the wake of protests over the 2014 police killing of Michael… [read post]
6 Apr 2016, 8:26 am
Not only Ferguson, Missouri, but in similar cities and suburbs, with similar pressures, as currently exist throughout our nation. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 11:37 am
In their recent article entitled "What does science tells us about the so-called Ferguson effect", Professors Scott Wolfe, Scott Decker and David Pyrooz explain how their rigorous study of the recent crime spike in large cities actually means nothing. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 11:58 am
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] and the city of Ferguson, Missouri, filed a settlement agreement [text, PDF] on Thursday to conclude a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] brought by the federal government last month. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 2:46 pm
" Some of the their findings:The researchers found that in the 12 months before Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri--the event that catalyzed the Black Lives Matter movement--major felony crime, averaged across all 81 cities, was going down. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 7:28 am
In February 2015, a class action complaint was filed against the City of Ferguson asserting that the city’s jails had become a “modern debtors’ prison scheme” that had “devastated the City’s poor, trapping them for years in a cycle of increased fees, debts, extortion, and cruel jailings. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 4:18 pm
Yesterday the Department of Justice sued Ferguson, Missouri, following the collapse of the settlement to overhaul that city's police department to remedy a long history of civil rights abuses. [read post]
11 Feb 2016, 8:49 am
US Attorney General Loretta Lynch [official website] on Wednesday announced [press release] that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] against the city of Ferguson, Missouri, for alleged unjust policing. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 8:57 am
The announcement came after the the city council in Ferguson, Missouri, voted [press release] Tuesday to unilaterally amend the agreement reached in January after a DOJ investigation found the Ferguson Police Department's actions were rooted in discriminatory policies [statement]. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 6:22 am
”“In the post-Ferguson (Missouri) environment,” Loewy said, “I think jurors are much more open to the idea that police brutalize people. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 8:30 am
But these issues didn’t just face residents of Ferguson, Missouri, or other newsworthy places; they face residents of Arizona cities too. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 6:00 am
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military technologies and tactics authorities have adopted over the past decade. [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 10:53 am
His comment was admidetly based on his empirical view of changes in homicide rates in select cities. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 7:27 am
During the disruption following the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a police officer in Elgin, Illinois posted two entries concerning the dispute. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 3:30 am
” Michael Brown’s body—killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 and subsequently left on the street for hours—has come to literally embody American contempt for black life. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 8:53 am
The city has a goal of outfitting every LAPD officer with a body camera. [read post]
25 Aug 2015, 12:28 pm
[JURIST] A new Municipal Court judge in Ferguson, Missouri, on Tuesday ordered [press release] sweeping reforms of courtroom practices following a damning federal report of racial bias. [read post]
14 Aug 2015, 11:15 am
This past weekend marked one year since Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:39 am
More Arrests Amid Ferguson Chaos: As of Monday night in Ferguson, Missouri, the fourth consecutive night of demonstrations marking the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death, at least 23 people were arrested after peaceful protests spiraled into chaos following Sunday evening gunfire. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 9:22 am
Two days ago was the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a black suburb of St. [read post]
