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Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
St. Louis Police Department Fighting Prosecution Exclusion List by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has a list of 28 of the city’s police department officers whose cases her office will no longer accept, citing credibility issues. Already Gardner’s office has refused the prosecution of …
Article • December 30, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Global Voice Recognition Database Alarms Privacy Groups by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Human rights watchdog organizations are alarmed over the new Speaker Identification Integrated Project (“SiiP”), a voice biometric database utilized by Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization, for law enforcement purposes. Created by Verint, a multinational biometrics company, …
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
New Hampshire’s Secret List of Problematic Cops Gets Worse by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell New Hampshire’s secret list of corrupt and problem cops just got worse. On April 30, Governor Chris Sununu and Attorney General Gordon MacDonald announced that individual cops won’t be placed on the list prior to …
Article • December 29, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Report: NYPD Assisted in Creating Facial Recognition Technology by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss IBM and the New York Police Department (“NYPD”) collaborated on the development of the computer giant’s facial recognition technology, The Intercept has revealed. The program began in 2008 when IBM used the threat of possible terrorist …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Civil Rights Groups Urge Ending Use of Pretrial Bail Risk Assessment Tools by Steve Horn by Steve Horn More than 100 civil rights organizations have signed a statement to denounce the use of pretrial bail risk assessment algorithm tools meant to determine conditions of bail and, in many cases, jail. …
Article • December 28, 2018 • from CLN January, 2019
Illinois: Chicago Police Misconduct Outed in Database 2.0 Version by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On August 16, 2018, a new era of transparency in Chicago police misconduct dawned. An updated version of a public database called the Citizens Police Data Project 2.0 (“CPDP”) makes available disciplinary records of Chicago …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Increase in Crime Registries Nationwide Not a Benefit to Society by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss New crime registries have been launched around the country, but their value remains to be seen. Research suggests their detriments outweigh their benefits, reveals Jessica Pishko’s article, “Expert: Crime Registries Turn People into Pariahs …
Article • December 5, 2018 • from CLN December, 2018
Orlando Police Continue to Test Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software Despite Privacy Concerns by The Orlando Police Department in Florida announced that it will continue to test facial recognition software developed by Amazon, despite concerns of abuse by police—and privacy issues. Amazon’s facial recognition program, called Rekognition, was designed to allow …
New York City Gang Database Increases 70 Percent Since 2014 by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Concerns are being raised about a 70 percent increase in the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) gang database revealed in a recent public records request by CUNY School of Law professor Babe Howell. …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Biased Facial Recognition Systems Are Coming to a Law Enforcement Agency Near You by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) has revealed some disturbing facts about facial recognition systems, which are becoming very popular law enforcement investigative tools. According to the February …
Article • July 21, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
FBI Data Reveal ‘War on Cops’ is Nonexistent by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell Where is the “war on cops” claimed by the country’s leaders? According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s annual report on law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty across the country, 93 cops died …
Article • July 20, 2018 • from CLN August, 2018
Risk Assessment Software: Biased and No Better Than Human Behavior Prediction by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Risk assessment software is all the rage in criminal justice circles. Programs such as COMPAS — Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions — are hailed as the ideal method for answering the …
Article • June 17, 2018 • from CLN July, 2018
Web-Based Database Exposes Depth and Breadth of Police Criminality by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The launch of the Henry A. Wallace Police Crime Database in September of 2017 puts at the public’s disposal, through a simple web search, all crimes committed by non-federal sworn police officers. The database contains …
Victory: Virginia Supreme Court Delivers Blow to Police Use of License Plate Reader Technology to Track Drivers, Surveil Citizens by On The Front Lines by The Rutherford Institute RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Supreme Court has delivered a blow to the police’s use of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to …
Officer-Involved Shooting Data? Hard to Find! by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis How often do police officers shoot Americans? How many people do they kill? What color were victims of police shootings? Were they armed? It would seem reasonable that an informed citizenry that employs an enormous paramilitary police force …
Article • March 12, 2018
Most American Indian Tribes Oppose Death Penalty, Regardless of Crime by by Dale Chappell Most American Indian tribes believe the criminal justice system does not work, at least "not in a sufficient way that they would opt into the [federal] death penalty," says Melissa Tatum, a research professor at the …
U.S. Murder Clearance Rates Among Lowest in the World by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Statistically, U.S. law enforcement agencies are the worst crime solvers in the Western world. According to official data, there are arrests for about one-eighth of burglaries, about one-third of rapes, and about two-thirds of murders. …
Article • January 19, 2018 • from CLN February, 2018
More Than Half of 2015 Police Killings Not Properly Documented in Government Data by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis A new study from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has found that over half of all police killings in 2015 were not properly documented as such in official …
Article • December 19, 2017 • from CLN January, 2018
New York City Quietly Assembling Massive Unregulated DNA Database by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Add overly aggressive collection of DNA samples from often unwitting individuals to the list of questionable police tactics in New York City with which criminal defense attorneys and the general public must now deal. Operating …
Publication • December 1, 2017
The Effects of Aging on Recidivism Among Federal Offenders The Effects of Aging on Recidivism Among Federal Offenders U N I T E D S TAT E S S E N T E NC I NG COM M I S S ION United States Sentencing Commission One Columbus Circle, N.E. …
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