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...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Rachel A. Harmon, Tracey L. Meares, Christopher Slobogin and Jennifer Morinigo | May 15, 2019 | Policing
Principles of the Law, PolicingThe following entry is the Black Letter and Comments of Tentative Draft No. 2, 11.02. Recording of Police Questioning.The full draft contains Reporters’ Notes. This draft will be presented to membership at the 2019 Annual Meeting for...
Barry Friedman, Brandon Garrett, Rachel A. Harmon, Tracey L. Meares, Christopher Slobogin and Jennifer Morinigo | May 10, 2019 | Policing
Principles of the Law, Policing The following entry contains the Black Letter, Comments, and Reporters’ Notes from Tentative Draft No. 2, Section 10.01. General Principles for Eyewitness Identification Procedures. This draft will be presented to membership at...
Lauren Klosinski | April 18, 2019 | Policing
In the aftermath of the death of Sacramento resident Stephon Clark, California is considering changes to its police use-of-force standard. A recent Washington Post article reflects on the history of California’s use-of-force statute and discusses the future of the...
John Malcolm, Sherrilyn Ifill and Barry Friedman | April 9, 2019 | Policing
In Part Two of this two-part episode of Reasonably Speaking, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Barry Friedman, New York University Law professor and director of NYU’s Policing Project, and John Malcolm of the Heritage...