The Policing Project at NYU School of Law and Stanford Computational Policy Lab | November 28, 2018 | Policing
The below report is published by The Policing Project from NYU Law School, in partnership with the Stanford Computational Policy Lab. The Policing Project, in partnership with the Stanford Computational Policy Lab, traveled to Nashville to release our assessment of...
Barry Friedman | October 31, 2018 | Policing
The Principles of the Law: Policing project is providing guidance to legislative bodies, courts, and policing issues where there is the most need, including where research, technology, and experience are rendering current approaches to policing obsolete. This project...
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,...
