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  • April 23, 2018
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    USA Today: Local Police Acquiring Less Military Gear from Feds
    … the latest evidence that much of the pro‐​police rhetoric and actions of the Trump Administration are less about improving police efficacy than they are about promoting the administration’s hollow posturing. Recall that local police aren’t always jazzed …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • November 16, 2017
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    Courts Should Police Sweetheart Settlements Where Only the Lawyers Benefit
    … class members in exchange for hefty attorney fees. Because of these potential conflicts of interest, courts are called upon to police class actions to a far greater extent than they are in the course of other litigation. Amy Yang is …
    By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, and Reilly Stephens
  • August 29, 2017
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    Militarization Makes Police More Violent
    … certain military equipment (such as tracked vehicles, camouflage uniforms, high‐​powered rifles, bayonets, and grenade launchers), he dismissed concerns about police militarization as “superficial.” The evidence suggests otherwise: militarization makes police more violent. Earlier this year, a study conducted by …
    By Adam Bates
  • August 14, 2017
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    How Do Police View The Neo-Nazi/White Supremacist Threat?
    How Do Police View The Neo-Nazi/White Supremacist Threat?
    Two years ago, researchers at Duke University, drawing on a survey they conducted with police departments around the country through the Police Executive Research Forum, published a study on police perceptions of the domestic terrorist threat. It’s worth recounting …
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • July 28, 2017
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    President Trump Endorses Police Brutality
    President Trump Endorses Police Brutality
    In a speech about criminal gangs before police officers on Long Island, New York today, the President of the United States openly encouraged police officers to abuse people they arrest and take into custody. Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • July 26, 2017
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    When Police Misread Tea Leaves They Violate the Fourth Amendment
    When Police Misread Tea Leaves They Violate the Fourth Amendment
    … t find any drugs, lest we forget — into a training exercise. After the district court granted summary judgment for the police, the Hartes appealed and Cato filed an amicus brief. We argued that the police violated an important Fourth Amendment …
    By Ilya Shapiro
  • June 29, 2017
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    The Right to Record and Police Accountability
    The Right to Record and Police Accountability
    … by 2014 B. Kenneth Simon Lecturer Judge Diane Sykes. You can read my 2015 USCCR testimony on police transparency and the use of force here. Finally, you can check out the 2014 panel we hosted on recording the police here.
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • June 14, 2017
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    Miami-Dade Police Abandon Aerial Surveillance Plans
    Miami-Dade Police Abandon Aerial Surveillance Plans
    … whether it is attached to manned or unmanned aircraft. Thanks to a handful of Supreme Court cases from the 1980s, police do not need a warrant to observe your property from the air. PSS and Baltimore police relied on these …
    By Matthew Feeney
  • May 3, 2017
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    Police Shootings
    Police Shootings
    … a completely separate police department or the state attorneys general office, rather than the federal government. Another best practice for police shootings involves transparency. Police departments should identify the shooter and disclose his or her record, such as previous involvement …
    By Tim Lynch
  • April 4, 2017
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    Sessions to Review Federal Monitoring of Local Police Agencies
    Sessions to Review Federal Monitoring of Local Police Agencies
    Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of existing federal consent decrees with respect to troubled police departments. Sessions’s legal memorandum is right that primary responsibility for dysfunctional police agencies resides with local officials–mayors, police chiefs, and …
    By Tim Lynch
  • February 10, 2017
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    Police Executive Order Invites Overfederalization
    Police Executive Order Invites Overfederalization
    … law enforcement protection of LGBTQ communities and the prosecution of their attackers, one would be hard-pressed to find a police agency or prosecutor’s office that looks the other way when there is violence against police. Federal criminal law …
    By Jonathan Blanks
  • February 3, 2017
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    Stingray: A New Frontier in Police Surveillance
    Stingray: A New Frontier in Police Surveillance
    … I’ve put together a policy analysis detailing the past history, present issues, and future prospects of stingray devices and police surveillance more generally. From the executive summary: Police agencies around the United States are using a powerful surveillance tool …
    By Adam Bates
  • January 30, 2017
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    Trump Looking to Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
    Trump Looking to Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
    An expansion of “task force agreements” under §287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act will result in worsened police-community relations, a growth in federal government power, and local and state police officers siphoning resources towards immigration enforcement.
    By Matthew Feeney
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