Lauren Klosinski | October 22, 2019 | Children and the Law, Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations, Policing, Property, Sexual Assault, Student Sexual Misconduct
At its meeting in New York City on October 17 and 18, 2019, the Council reviewed and approved drafts of seven projects.*Children and the Law: The Council approved § 2.22 from Chapter 2, State Intervention for Abuse and Neglect; § 4.10 from Chapter 4, Emancipation of...
Amna Nawaz and Seth Stoughton | October 18, 2019 | Policing
Amna Nawaz of PBS News Hour and Seth Stoughton of the University of South Carolina discuss police training, race, and use of force. In the news segment, they examine the case of Atatianna Jefferson, who “was playing video games with her nephew when police...
The Policing Project NYU School of Law | September 4, 2019 | Policing
This post was originally posted by the Policing Project on August 21, 2019. Today, the Camden County Police Department announced adoption of its innovative, revised use of force policy drafted with the help of the Policing Project.The revised use of force policy goes...
Pauline Toboulidis | August 20, 2019 | Policing
On August 19, California’s Office of the Governor issued a press release announcing that Governor Newsom signed AB 392 into law. The bill enacts one of the strongest use-of-force laws in the country. The following is from the press release:Today, Governor Gavin...
Michael Gentithes | July 29, 2019 | Policing
ABSTRACTYoung minority men in high-crime neighborhoods are surrounded by poverty and crime, yet distrustful of the police that frequently stop, frisk, and arrest them and their friends. Every encounter with the police carries the potential for a new arrest or...
Barry Friedman and Kate Mather | July 10, 2019 | Policing
The following was originally posted on JustSecurity.org. Just Security is based at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law.There are two huge problems with American policing today: We don’t know nearly enough about what works in a...
