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And that, in turn, would have profound implications for efforts to ensure fair and unbiased policing in places like Ferguson and New York City and throughout the country. [read post]
5 Jan 2015, 11:57 am by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law The actions - - - or inaction - - - of the grand jury that did not indict police officer Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown... [read post]
22 Mar 2013, 12:25 pm by Kirk Jenkins
Ferguson arose from an apparent award to a former City employee of a sole-source contract without going through the normal competitive process. [read post]
13 Nov 2014, 11:00 am by David Kravets
 Major cities in the US and abroad are continuing to look to Taser to provide secure and cost-effective solutions," CEO Patrick Smith said when announcing earnings last week. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 11:58 am by Bill Otis
The "Hands up, don't shoot" narrative that fueled the rioting in Ferguson and elsewhere, and the murders of two policemen in New York City, was fake. [read post]
30 May 2015, 10:03 am by Kent Scheidegger
The main victims of growing violence will be the inner-city poor. [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 4:04 pm
Ferguson, a city contractor, were accused of using Kilpatrick's position as mayor to enrich their own lives for several years through kickbacks, shakedowns, and bid-rigging schemes, according to prosecutors. [read post]
15 Jan 2022, 9:22 am by Tom Smith
Louis (which is near Ferguson), and on a month-to-month level in 60 big cities. [read post]
20 Mar 2015, 3:00 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Heather MacDonald has this article in the Weekly Standard on the two USDoJ reports on Ferguson, Missouri. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 6:25 pm by Ruthann Robson
Professor Ruthann Robson, City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law Writing exam questions that engage with current controversies can themselves cause controversy. [read post]
30 Apr 2015, 3:00 am by Ruth Carter
It’s ironic that Phoenix, a desert city, is so spread out. [read post]
8 Sep 2015, 5:20 am by SHG
Kelly also attributed the rise in homicides in other cities to a backlash to the killing last year of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 7:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
23 Aug 2016, 5:00 am by Melissa Jacoby
  Some cities with systemic police practice problems - Ferguson, Chicago - also are known to have pervasive financial difficulties. [read post]
16 Jul 2016, 4:22 pm by Eugene Volokh
Homicides jumped nearly 17 percent in 2015 in the largest 50 cities, the biggest one-year increase since 1993. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 2:00 am by Jeff Welty
It hits hard, including this statement from the summary: Ferguson’s law enforcement practices are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 3:44 pm by Howard Wasserman
City of Birmingham, in which the Court held that the Collateral Bar Doctrine applied even to the First Amendment and even as to a blatantly unconstitutional injunction. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 9:26 am by Howard Wasserman
Two completely unrelated items, in one post. 1) The Ferguson City Council reversed itself, voting 6-0 to accept all the provisions of the proposed DOJ consent decree. [read post]
3 Jan 2015, 5:00 am by Paul Gowder
As a follow-up to yesterday's post, I'd like to say a little bit more about what seems wrong, to me, with pervasive small-fry/penny-ante policing, both in the form of “broken windows” and “stop and frisk” policies like those associated with post-Giuliani New York City, and with more naked attempts to use the petty criminal justice system for revenue purposes like we've seen in Ferguson and like critics of red light cameras and similar devices… [read post]
14 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Oh, no: “Ferguson to Increase Police Ticketing to Close City’s Budget Gap,” because three arrest warrants per household is still too low [Bloomberg News via Zach Weissmuller (& thanks for quote), earlier] In years 2011/12 alone, one Buffalo officer “killed as many dogs in the line of duty as the entire NYPD. [read post]