After 25 Years, These Regulatory Regimes Are Proven to Be Misguided, Dysfunctional, and Excessively Punitive. It’s Time to Replace Fear With Function.
by Casey J. Bastian
The term “sex offender registry” (“SOR”) is known to nearly every person in America. It evokes fantastic visions of human monsters, offenders who have committed ...
In Louisiana, law enforcement agencies have been accused of targeting Hispanic drivers in traffic stops and identifying them as white on tickets. Misidentification makes it impossible to track racial bias, experts say.
by Richard A. Webster, ProPublica
When sheriff’s deputies in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, pulled over Octavio Lopez for an expired ...
The tool is the product of a growing industry whose work
is usually kept from the public and utilized by police.
by Michael Kwet, originally published by The Intercept, September 21, 2021
A Michigan State Police contract, obtained by The Intercept, sheds new light on the growing use of little-known ...
by Matt Clarke
In Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movie, Minority Report, police armed with nebulously sourced predictions of people who are supposedly going to commit murder before they can actually do so. Troublingly, only a few years after the film’s 2002 release, a real-world version of predictive policing was ...
by Anthony W. Accurso
Technology companies and prosecutors are working together to assert the right of the companies to protect their intellectual property in ways that deny criminal defendants their right to challenge the reliability of forensic evidence in criminal proceedings. This assertion of intellectual property rights is done in ...
