“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/ One of the beliefs common to…
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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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From the DOJ report on Baltimore Police: This data reveals that certain Baltimore residents have repeated encounters with the police on public streets and sidewalks. Indeed, the data show that one African-American man was stopped 34 times during this period in the Central and Western Districts alone, and several hundred residents were stopped at least…
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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/ My take away is that the…
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Dan Rodricks in the Sun: Anticipating the Department of Justice’s release of its civil rights investigation, Davis clearly staked out a position as the man who is trying to fix the department’s broken relationship with large sectors of the community it serves. … Getting ahead of police reform is no easy task, but it’s much…
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Great (and thus rare) legal discussion by Whet Moser in Chicago Magazine: “Why It’s Legal for Police to Shoot at Someone During a Car Chase: CPD officers who shot at Paul O’Neal may have violated procedure, but Supreme Court decisions set a high barrier for legal liability”: Perhaps the law could evolve. Police departments are…
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Did you see the headline in today’s New York Counterfactual?: “NYPD Kills Unarmed Man in Bronx”: Protests erupted after police killed a hispanic man in a Bronx bodega. Efraim Guzman, 30, was unarmed when he was shot and killed by police. One round entering Guzman’s back. Police allege Guzman was engaged in a dispute at…
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Lois Beckett in the Guardian: But black Americans in neighborhoods that see constant gun violence do try to make their voices heard, in protests like the one Truehill helped organize: community led, often small and largely ignored by news organizations. Thirty people showed up on Friday, most of them black men and women in their…
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