Policing Posts

While hardly immune from the various problems that plague modern policing, research has largely overlooked the thousands of small departments that serve rural areas and small towns. This paper begins to fill this gap by blending together empirical analysis with in-depth case studies that add much-needed texture to the patterns that the data reveal.

In “Secrets & Suspicionless Policing: A Fundamentally Anti-Democratic Mix”, Catherine M. Grosso cites Chapter 5 of ALI’s Principles of the Law, Policing, when exploring the scope of police investigations without individualized suspicion or particularized evidence.

The Lawfare Podcast recently featured Christopher Slobogin to discuss his new book, Virtual Searches, Regulating the Covert World of Technological Policing.

Policing agencies in the United States are engaging in mass collection of personal data, building a vast architecture of surveillance. This growing network of surveillance is almost entirely unregulated. It is, in short, lawless. In the face of growing concern over such surveillance, this Article argues there is a constitutional solution sitting in plain view.

Michele Bratcher Goodwin of UC Irvine School of Law has published a three-part series on what we can learn from officer-involved killings. The articles look at police violence as symptomatic of broader social and cultural injustice, racism, and anti-Blackness, including in one of America’s most liberal communities.