There are more than 3,000 county jails in the United States. They house more than 650,000 inmates on any given day. Roughly 70 percent of these inmates are pretrial detainees in jail pending trial because they do not have the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform
July30
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Junk Science
With so many television crime drama shows relying on forensic evidence to capture the guilty party, it is understandable why there is a broad misconception in the general public about the value of forensic evidence.
In actuality, flawed forensic evidence …
July30
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Qualified Immunity
Pasadena, Texas, population 152,000, is a suburban community in Harris County that falls on the outskirts of the greater Houston metropolitan area.
In the early morning of March 28, 2019, Pasadena police arrested 32-year-old Jamal Ali Shaw for public intoxication…
July04
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: bail reform | Criminal Justice Reform
In the late 1960s and into the early 1970s, federal courts across the country suddenly faced an increasing number of lawsuits from state prisoners seeking application and/or adjudication of a wide range of new constitutional rights extended in a number…
July04
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The term “rogue prosecutor” was coined to refer to unethical, even criminal prosecutors who lie, cheat, and engage in every stripe of professional misconduct to secure criminal convictions.
The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively given its constitutional blessing to this…
June03
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct | terrorism
The new Netflix docuseries, American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing, released in anticipation of the first decade anniversary of the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon terrorist bombing by two deranged brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, will undoubtedly reawaken and stoke…
June03
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Police Misconduct
Bad prosecutors are not a new phenomenon. They have existed since the Founders envisioned an adversarial judicial process when forming the United States of America. For more than 230 years, bad prosecutors have displayed a propensity to lie, embellish, suppress…
Mar.19
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Brutality | Police Misconduct
On January 11, 2019, a 19-year-old African American teenager named Jacob Harris was gunned down by law enforcement officers with the Phoenix Police Department (PhxPD). Two officers, in particular, repeatedly fired their pistol and an AR-15 assault rifle at the…
Mar.18
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
THE LOUISVILLE METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: A ROGUE, OUT-OF-CONTROL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
The circumstances of the tragic March 13, 2020, shooting death of Breonna Taylor by the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department (LMPD) signaled that the department was a rogue, out-of-control law…
Feb.25
2023
2023
Posted By: John Floyd
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Domestic Terrorism
It seems that hate, and the violence it spawns, are everywhere in American society today: its schools, places of worship, political institutions, and the family network.
Some of the nation’s largest cities—New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and even…
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