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Article • December 17, 2019 • from CLN January, 2020
Filed under: Police
Insurance Companies Are Paying Cops To Investigate Their Own Customers by Kendall Taggart A cozy alliance between insurers and law enforcement has turned the justice system into the industry’s hired gun and left innocent customers facing prison. by Kendall Taggart, BuzzFeed News Reporter, August 15, 2019 When police showed up …
Article • November 23, 2019
Filed under: Police
NYPD Creating Petty Crimes to Lock People Up by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell What would you do if you found an “abandoned” bag containing valuables and cash? Would you pick it up? Back in 2006, at least 220 people did just that and found themselves arrested on charges of …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Shootings, Police
$750,000 Settlement for St. Louis County Cops Shooting Dog by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins They put me and my son on our knees to watch her die. The officer squatted over her while she was dying with the search warrant, and he said, ‘You know why we’re here?’ and …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
Filed under: Police Searches, Police
New York City Cops Can Always Tell by Just the Smell by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon As far as marijuana is concerned, the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) has little need for a canine corps. The city’s two-legged, blue-clad human-type cops seem to have the best olfactory sense …
Article • November 19, 2019 • from CLN December, 2019
New Law Makes It Harder for California’s Cops to Get Away with Killing People by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Beginning January 1, 2020, cops in California will be allowed to use deadly force only when the “officer reasonably believes ... that deadly force is necessary to defend against an …
Article • October 19, 2019
Failure to Identify Specific Evidence Sought in Telephone Search Violates Oregon Constitution by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Oregon Court of Appeals held that a warrant to search a criminal defendant’s phone violated the Oregon Constitution because it was insufficiently particular, and therefore invalid. During a traffic stop, police …
Article • October 19, 2019
Oregon Identity Theft Convictions Merge Into Aggravated Identity Theft by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson  The Oregon Supreme Court held that the Legislature intended that if the state aggregates multiple identity thefts to serve as the basis for an aggravated identity theft, the identity thefts are lesser-included offenses of the …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Police
Kansas Supreme Court: Expired License Plate Doesn’t Attenuate Evidence from Illegal Seizure by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of Kansas ruled that an officer’s discovery of an expired license plate subsequent to an illegal seizure did not attenuate the evidence obtained as a result of the illegal …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Defendant’s Flight From Police’s Illegal Frisk Doesn’t Render Improperly Obtained Evidence Admissible in Maryland by Anthony Accurso by Anthony Accurso  The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that a defendant’s flight during an illegal stop and frisk did not attenuate the link between the officers’ misconduct and the discovery of …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Big Brother, Big Business, Big Law Enforcement by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  The word ring has traditionally been used as a verb to describe what a bell does, whether it is mounted on a steeple or on the wall inside a residence. A product innovation by Amazon converts it …
Article • October 16, 2019 • from CLN November, 2019
Filed under: Police
Safe Interactions Between Police and Citizens by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon  Human nature being what it is, since the need for an organized law enforcement body arose, police have generally been a necessary evil. Judging from the seemingly countless articles detailing officer misconduct in Prison Legal News and Criminal …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Study: Brazen Cops Posting Racist, Vitriolic Comments on the Internet by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon There is a time-worn, yet usually quite-accurate saying that states: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” Thanks in great part to Philadelphia attorney Emily Baker-White’s efforts as leader of The Plain View Project (“PVP”), a …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Chicago PD Creating Files, Background Checks on Citizens Who Speak at Police Disciplinary Meetings by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A public records request by the Chicago Tribune found that the Chicago Police Department has been doing background checks and creating files on citizens who speak at weekly meetings of …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Arrest for Shouting ‘F—k You’ to Arkansas Trooper Violates First and Fourth Amendments Rights, Eighth Circuit Rules by Michael Berk by Michael Berk An Arkansas state trooper violated a motorist’s First and Fourth Amendment rights when he arrested him for yelling “F--k you,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Filed under: Money/Property, Police
New North Dakota Law Arrests Cops’ Ability to Seize Property by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Republican Governor Doug Burgum of North Dakota recently signed House Bill 1286, “which seriously curtails law enforcement agencies’ ability to arrest somebody, take his or her property, and attempt to keep what they seized …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Black Drivers in Missouri 91 Percent More Likely to Be Stopped Than White Drivers by Bill Barton by Bill Barton A report by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt reveals that black motorists in that state are 91 percent more likely to be pulled over than whites. The 2018 report illuminating …
Article • September 17, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
The Power of Sheriffs: An Explainer by Jessica Brand  by Jessica Brand, The Appeal This Explainer was produced by The Appeal, a nonprofit criminal justice news site. In our Explainer series, Justice Collaborative lawyers and other legal experts help unpack some of the most complicated issues in the criminal justice …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Oregon Supreme Court Announces State Constitution Prohibits Cops From Digging Through Residents’ Trash Without a Warrant by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson Departing from 50 years of precedent, the Supreme Court of Oregon held that Oregonians retain a constitutionally protected privacy interest in garbage that they leave at the curb …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Tracking Phones: Google as a Dragnet for the Police by Bill Barton by Bill Barton The Google Sensorvault database has been used by law enforcement agencies on multiple occasions to obtain what are being called “geofence” warrants, which specify an area and period of time and require Google to provide …
Article • September 16, 2019 • from CLN October, 2019
Who Inflicts the Most Gun Violence in America? The U.S. Government and Its Police Forces by John W. Whitehead by John W. Whitehead, Commentary, The Rutherford Institute “It is often the case that police shootings, incidents where law enforcement officers pull the trigger on civilians, are left out of the …
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