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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom located at Broadway and West 165th Street in New York City. The assassination took place at 3:00 p.m. before Malcolm could deliver his speech to the Organization of…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Uncategorized
There was a time in this country when police misconduct was casually dismissed as “just a few bad apples.” It was widely believed that the police were professional people sworn to serve and protect the public. Communities of color, however,…
Category: Corruption | Police Misconduct | Uncategorized
Two icons of the 1960s used the term “by any means necessary”: the French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and Black Muslim activist Malcolm X.
Sartre first used the term in his 1963 play “Dirty Hands,” and Malcolm X used…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2018, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner established the Philadelphia Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) in his office—a unit set up by Krasner to investigate claims of innocence and wrongful convictions. Krasner’s CIU has exonerated twenty-two wrongfully convicted persons.
According to…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | SCOTUS
This past May, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee that white supremacists are “the greatest domestic security threat” in the United States.
That assertion is welcome but long overdue, given…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
The National Registry of Exonerations (“NRE”) is a combined project of the University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University College of Law, and the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science & Society. “The Registry collects, analyzes, and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Qualified immunity is a judicial doctrine created in 1967 by the U.S. Supreme Court. This doctrine provides public officials—most notably law enforcement officers—with a shield of protection from civil liability as long as their conduct does not violate a clearly…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Brutality | Police Misconduct
The Texas Legislature convened on January 12, 2021.
In a January 19, 2021 post, we pointed out that Rep. Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston) had authored House Bill 88, known as the George Floyd Act. The Texas GFA Act would severely curtail…
Category: Criminal Law | Police Misconduct | Qualified Immunity
The death of George Floyd took place in Minnesota, but it sent shockwaves across the country. In many places, its effects will redefine police roles in the community and consequences for crimes on duty.
In Texas, a bill called…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd both intentionally and negligently on May 25, 2020, so said the jury. The jury’s verdict finally confirmed what we all had seen with our own eyes.
Floyd’s horrific murder resulted from…
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