The Policing Project 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...
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...
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,...
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...
Orin S. Kerr | March 23, 2018 | Policing
ABSTRACTThis Article considers whether government agents can conduct searches or seizures to enforce a different government’s law. For example, can federal officers make stops based on state traffic violations? Can state police search for evidence of federal...
