Writing in the National Review on November 22, 2016 David French says there is a double standard when it comes to outrage about deaths of police officers. (excerpt) “Where is the progressive outrage when police officers are murdered? “Last weekend, four police officers were shot on a “bloody Sunday” for our nation’s law enforcement, three of them in what appeared to be … Read More
Consent Decree, Community Perception Survey and Monitor Reports- Seattle Police Department 2015
Seattle Police Monitor Reports and Website http://www.seattlemonitor.com/reports-resources Basic Documents DOJ Findings Letter (December 2011) Consent Decree Memorandum of Understanding Order Approving Merrick Bobb as Federal Monitor Assessments of Community Perceptions Community Perception Survey (October 2013) Executive Summary (by Anzalone Liszt Grove Research) Purpose Statement + Key Findings This research was commissioned by the federal monitoring team to assess community perceptions … Read More
DOJ Civil Rights Division Investigation of the Ferguson Police Dept.
REPORT SUMMARY Investigation reveals a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department that violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law. Notwithstanding our findings about Ferguson’s approach to law enforcement and the policing culture it creates, we found many Ferguson police officers and other City employees to be … Read More
Report: Black Men, Boys Shot Most By Chicago Police
Chicago: Police shootings declined from more than 100 in 2011 to 44 in 2015. There were 435 police shootings from 2010 through 2015, in which officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others. The vast majority of those hit were black men or boys. August 27, 2016 CHICAGO (AP) — After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained Police … Read More
Report: The Science of Justice – Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force – Center for Policing Equity
Analyses of 12 law enforcement departments from geographically and demographically diverse locations revealed that racial disparities in police use of force persist even when controlling for racial distribution of local arrest rates. – Center for Policing Equity Executive Summary Despite the importance of understanding how race intersects with police use of force, little research has used police administrative data to … Read More
Report: This Is Not Your Grandparents’ Prejudice: The Implications of the Modern Science of Bias for Police Training – Lorie Fridell
Bias starts with our automatic tendency to categorize individuals. We categorize individuals and objects to make sense of the world, which includes categorizing people we don’t know according to group membership. We then attribute to these individuals the stereotypes associated with their group. This does not require animus; it requires only knowledge of the stereotype. Implicit bias, like explicit bias, … Read More
Biased Based Policing – NYC Settles Daniels vs. New York, 2013 (Racial Profiling)
Biased Based Policing – NYC Settles Daniels vs. New York, 2013 (Racial Profiling)
Biased Based Policing – Floyd vs. NYC, 2013 (Stop & Frisk)
Biased Based Policing – Floyd vs. NYC, 2013 (Stop & Frisk)
Biased Based Policing – Floyd vs. NYC, 2013 (Stop & Frisk) New York Bar Association Report
Biased Based Policing – Floyd vs. NYC, 2013 (Stop & Frisk) New York Bar Association Report
Biased Based Policing – Daniels vs. New York, 2013 (Racial Profiling)
Biased Based Policing – Daniels vs. New York, 2013 (Racial Profiling)
Boston Public Integrity Policy – 1995
Biased Based Policing – Public Integrity Policy – Boston, MA 1995
Biased Based Policing – Profiling – Albuquerque, NM 2016
Biased Based Policing – Profiling – Albuquerque, NM 2016
Strengthening the Relationship between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color
Report: Strengthening the Relationship between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color – COPS, 2014 Two competing and destructive narratives that have emerged between police and communities of color: Many in the African-American community feel that most cops are dishonest and out to get them. . . . On the other hand, the cops will say the community is complicit, that … Read More
Landmark Decision: Floyd v. City of New York – Federal Judge Rules NYPD Stop and Frisk Practices Unconstitutional, Racially Discriminatory
August 12, 2013, New York – In a landmark decision, a federal court found the New York City Police Department’s highly controversial stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutional. In her thorough, 198-page ruling, Judge Shira Scheindlin found the NYPD’s practices to violate New Yorkers’ Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures and also found that the practices were racially … Read More
Report: Debunks Claim That Black Teens Are “Vastly More Likely” To Be Killed By Police
A 2014 Report of the Crime Prevention Research Center analyzes and debunks claims that black teens are vastly more likely to be killed by police than white teens. According to the report: “Sometimes racial discrimination is occurring and should be pointed out, but sometimes false information is being used to unjustifiably inflame concerns. The claims being put forward by Slate … Read More