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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…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Most opponents of “police reform” use the tattered and by now the thoroughly discredited argument that police misconduct is the byproduct of “just a few bad apples” among the ranks of the police who are committed to the “protect and…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Racial discrimination in policy and policing has been a consistent problem in Texas since its inception. In a nod to this historical reality, Texas took the small step of putting laws on its books requiring law enforcement agencies to report…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The Texas Legislature has a significant piece of legislation pending before it calling for meaningful police reform. The failure to address the merits of the proposed Texas George Floyd Act will result in continued unjustified police misconduct, abuse, and homicides…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On May 25, 2020, as the nation was coming to grips with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, a cellphone video emerged documenting Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin suffocating the life out of George Floyd during a brutal chokehold that lasted eight-minute…
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