All Articles tagged police

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  Police Reform: Training Officers to Reduce Improper Threat Detection, Which is Present in Many Unjust Killings and Worsened by PTSD, Cumulative Stress, and Implicit Racial Bias
  Philip J. Silverman

  This note discusses three major factors in police killings: inability to regulate stress, PTSD, and implicit racial biases and offers several solutions to prevent future police killings.

• Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  Protecting the Miranda Rights of Vulnerable Suspects: The Hidden Disability of Language Impairment
  Lindsay L. Miller

  This article discusses the effect a language impairment has on vulnerable suspects and proposes a practical assessment tool in order to provide greater protections.

• Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  Ears in the Sky: How the Technology of ShotSpotter is Eroding Fourth Amendment Protections
  Gage Righter

  This note explores the constitutional implications of the emerging technology, ShotSpotter, on individual rights and communities as a whole. Is the sound of a gun shot reasonable suspicion?

• Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
  November 13, 2022 EDT
  A Blueprint for Municipal Police Reform
  Christina Hambleton

  This note outlines one blueprint for police reform that can liberate neighborhoods from police violence and discrimination.

• Civil Rights
  August 23, 2018 EDT
  A Public Concern: The Effect of Ohio’s Confidential Law Enforcement Investigatory Exception on Public-Records Requests of Police Body Camera Footage
  Marcus Miller

  The recent epidemic of fatal shootings by police officers has brought police-worn body cameras (PWBCs) to the forefront of public policy discussions around the nation.

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