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2 Jul 2020, 3:48 pm by Tom Smith
Today’s violent-crime increase—call it Ferguson Effect 2.0 or the Minneapolis Effect—has come on with a speed and magnitude that make Ferguson 1.0 seem tranquil. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 12:43 pm by Emelina Perez
[JURIST] Ferguson, Missouri, Mayor James Knowles reportedly fired [Reuters report] three city employees on Thursday after an investigation by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] exposed racist e-mails and racially disparate police practices in the city. [read post]
– DOJ Ferguson Report, pg. 3 The Justice Department also found that the courts in Ferguson target lower classes to pay fines that further the city's financial interests. [read post]
18 Aug 2014, 7:40 am by Jeff Welty
According to the New York Times, the governor of Missouri is now deploying the National Guard in an “effort[] to quell unrest” resulting from a white police officer’s shooting of a black teenager in the city of Ferguson. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 11:58 am by Alexis Wheeler
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]
11 Feb 2015, 10:58 am by Michael Lowe
The City of Ferguson issues more arrest warrants per capita than any other city in Missouri larger than 10,000 residents. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 8:57 am by Miracle Jones
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]
23 Apr 2015, 2:27 pm by Laura DeGeer
In addition to the city of Ferguson, the complaint also names former police chief Thomas Jackson, and former police officer Darren Wilson as defendants in the suit. [read post]
7 Oct 2016, 9:23 am by Susanna Leighton
A $40 million civil rights lawsuit filed by protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, against the city’s police force has been dismissed by a federal judge. [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 5:15 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Here is the abstract: City infrastructure is getting smarter. [read post]
10 Mar 2015, 7:52 am by Sarah Klein
  This month the Justice Department called on Ferguson, Mo., to “overhaul its criminal justice system, declaring that the city had engaged in so many constitutional violations that they could be corrected ... [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]
18 Aug 2014, 7:40 am by Jeff Welty
According to the New York Times, the governor of Missouri is now deploying the National Guard in an “effort[] to quell unrest” resulting from a white police officer’s shooting of a black teenager in the city of Ferguson. [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 9:01 am by Howard Wasserman
Thursday, I am in a roundtable session titled Ferguson's Fault Lines Transcend Ferguson, along with other contributing authors to the book of the similar name. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 7:23 am by Julie Deisher
Louis County Police Department, which trains city police officers in the county, through the Department's... [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 7:00 am by Walter Olson
In a Cato post yesterday, I note that court fees are the second biggest source of revenue for the small city, and that the Ferguson municipal court last year issued three arrest warrants and presided over 1.5 cases per household. [read post]
11 Mar 2015, 3:10 pm by Jeralyn
In the latest fallout from DOJ's Ferguson report, Ferguson city officials announced that Police Chief Thomas Jackson is resigned today. [read post]
12 Aug 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
And has anything changed about local politics in the last year such that Ferguson and cities like it will not resume their predation of the majority? [read post]