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Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
An unprecedented 95 percent of Americans favor criminal justice reforms that include police reforms. The National Opinion Research Center (“NORC”) at the University of Chicago found in its report released on June 23, 2020, that Americans support having specific standards…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
For over a decade, we have written about the “epidemic” of police misconduct and the devastating impact of systemic racism inside the criminal justice system. It was just another voice in the proverbial wilderness. Today, however, things are different. In…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Criminal Law | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr, claim there is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the conservative Republican group, the Lincoln Project, recently called Trump the “second president” of the…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
The murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota has brought demands for racial justice to a pitched boil after generations of racial profiling, police violence, and failed promises for reform in the criminal justice system. Mr. Floyd’s murder is…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
In July 2017, President Donald J. Trump, as the nation’s “chief law enforcement officer” as he likes to call himself, implored police across the country not to be “too nice” when making an arrest. The President was speaking to a…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
Two white men, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son, Travis, are under arrest for the February 23, 2020 shooting death of an unarmed African-American named Ahmaud Arbery, as he jogged through the predominantly white neighborhood in which the Travis’…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
How much should a state be required to pay a person it wrongfully convicts and keeps in prison for 43 years?
The State of Florida wrongfully convicted Nathan Meyers and his uncle, Clifford Williams, for a 1976 murder they…
Category: Police Misconduct | terrorism
In the wake of 9/11, the federal government’s intelligence and law enforcement agencies, particularly the FBI, have targeted Muslim communities for “domestic surveillance” as likely hotbeds for terrorism, generally without any suspicion that a crime has occurred or is likely…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct | Prosecutorial Misconduct
In 2003, three men were indicted for capital murder in connection with the April 3rd murders of two people during an attempted robbery of a Harris County business, ACE America’s Cash Express. One of the victims was an employee at…
Category: Criminal Justice Reform | Police Misconduct
On August 28, 2018, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in a police excessive force case that will not please the law enforcement community.
Given today’s divisive political climate, the political makeup of the three-judge panel…
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