Scott Shackford | October 2, 2018 | Policing
For decades, California has kept police misconduct records exempt from public records requests, denying citizens (and even prosecutors and defense attorneys in court cases) easy access to information about law enforcement behavior. Now that secrecy is coming to an...
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...
Barry Friedman | June 26, 2018 | Policing
Barry F. Friedman A New York Times op-ed piece discusses the recent U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Carpenter v. United States, which ruled that the government must now have probable cause and a warrant to access cellphone location records. This decision coincides with...
Brandon Garrett | June 7, 2018 | Policing
In November 2017, a state appellate court did something almost unprecedented: It held that a trial judge made an error by admitting testimony on latent fingerprinting. In State v. McPhaul, the North Carolina appellate panel found error in admitting expert testimony,...
Kate Levine and Stephen Rushin | May 29, 2018 | Policing
This piece will appear in a forthcoming issue of the University of Illinois Law Review. Over the past several years there has been increased focus on the way police are treated by the criminal justice system and their own internal disciplinary mechanisms. Scholars and...
Sean Emery | April 4, 2018 | Policing
The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that authorities are legally entitled to collect DNA from suspected felons when they are booked into local lockups, overturning a lower court ruling that questioned the constitutionality of the practice. In its 4-3 ruling, the...
