Author: Moskos

“Today, no police departmentshould be surprised by what the Department of Justice is looking for,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which has extensively studied such investigations. I’m not a lawyer and don’t think like one, so I’m a bit slow in realizing how the DOJ goes about its business.…
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Update: The links have changed (oops!) since these were first published. Here are links to all my August 2016 posts on the DOJ report on the BPD. 1 https://qualitypolicing.com/initial-thoughts-on-doj-report-on-2/ 2 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-wrong-1-2/ 3 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-dojs-war-on-broken-window-2/ 4 https://qualitypolicing.com/cant-you-take-joke-2/ 5 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-wrong-2-n-word-2/ 6 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-wrong-3-that-damn-kid-on-2/ 7 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-wrong-4-on-diggs-dig-2/ 8 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-right-1-2/ 9 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-right-2-actual-department-is-2/ 10 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-right-3-actual-department-is-2/ 11 https://qualitypolicing.com/the-doj-is-right-4-actual-department-is-2/ There’s a lot of good in…
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Again from someone else. This is a former Baltimore Police Officer: What did you make the of the discussion on pp.25-26? [concerning massive number of stops] I happen to agree that lots of Terry stops go unreported. That citizen contact form is a pain to fill out. But in arguing that many Terry stops go…
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