Aya Gruber | September 4, 2020 | Policing
This article was originally published by California Law Review in Sept. 2020. The following is the introduction. On May 25, 2020, a video went viral depicting Amy Cooper, a White woman, calling the cops on Christian Cooper, a Black man, to tell them that an...
Brennan Center for Justice and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | November 21, 2019 | Policing
The Brennan Center for Justice and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund are holding a full-day symposium on “Policing Race and Technology” on Dec. 3, 2019. The symposium aims to center the racial justice issues raised by modern surveillance...
Josephine Ross | August 21, 2018 | Policing, Sexual Assault
ABSTRACT”What the #Metoo Campaign Teaches About Stop and Frisk” applies feminist tools to investigate current policing methods. Feminist tools exposed sexual harassment by listening to the stories of those affected, by a nuanced understanding of power...
Jeffrey A. Fagan | November 7, 2017 | Policing
Several observers credit nearly 25 years of declining crime rates to the “New Policing” and its emphasis on advanced statistical metrics, new forms of organizational accountability, and aggressive tactical enforcement of minor crimes. This model has been adopted in...
Max Isaacs | June 15, 2017 | Policing
Few controversies in policing are as fraught as the use of Terry stops—temporary detentions made by officers upon reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, often accompanied by protective pat-down searches known as “frisks.” Studies have shown that racial minorities...
