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Article • March 28, 2022
50 Years After Nixon’s Commission Declared Criminal Laws Were ‘Too Harsh’ on Pot Users, the Federal Ban Remains in Place by Brooke Kaufman By Brooke Kaufman March of 2022 marks 50 years since President Richard Nixon’s National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse issued its report, Marihuana: A Signal of …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Trial Court Did Not Abuse Discretion by Granting Rule 508 Motion to Dismiss Capital Murder Charge Where State Refused to Disclose Identity of Confidential Informant by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas reversed a judgment of the Court of …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Fear and Freedom Twenty Years Later: How Post 9/11 Security Measures Overstepped Privacy by Ashleigh Dye by Ashleigh N. Dye The threat of terrorism in America has gripped the hearts of Americans for the past two decades since the 9/11 attacks. This fear has, however, been monopolized by the U.S. …
Article • March 15, 2022 • from CLN April, 2022
Dangers of Data Gathering by Los Angeles Police Department by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon For decades, officers with California’s Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”) have utilized Field Information Cards (“FIC”) for reference whenever they interact with citizens. This contact may take the form of a traffic stop whether or …
FBI hiding an unpublished police use-of-force database from FOIA requesters by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman  For years, the FBI has been collecting information from police departments on their use of force. “Lackluster participation” from law enforcement, however, has prevented the agency from publishing public reports or statistics based on …
Article • March 7, 2022
App designed to Lower Incarceration Rate and Save Taxpayer Money, Too by Brooke Kaufman by Brooke Kaufman According to a recent article from Fox KTVU, Contra Costa County, California, has contracted with Uptrust, a private technology company, to put an end to the practice of jailing defendants who fail to …
Article • January 15, 2022 • from CLN February, 2022
Snitch Visas: A Pipe Dream by David Reutter by David M. Reutter When Nervin Coronado was charged in 2009 with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme, he faced more than just prison time. He faced deportation because he immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12 and never became …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: Statistics/Trends
Crime Rates Rise and Fall. The Police Mostly Have Nothing to Do With It. by Aya Gruber Policing expansions don’t do much to reduce crime. Instead, they manage people and communities to serve the interests of the powerful. by Aya Gruber Murder rates go down; people exalt policing. Murder rates go …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Cop Gets Money for Nothing, Awards for Free by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon In the early 20th century, unions were beneficial in that they pushed for safe working conditions and decent wages for the working class. The way our society has evolved, not all unions are what they seem. …
Article • December 15, 2021 • from CLN January, 2022
Filed under: Crime Labs, junk science
Microbiome: The Latest in Cutting Edge Forensics by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino One week after the attacks of September 11, 2001, letters containing anthrax were mailed to several news outlets, and to the offices of two U.S. Senators, forcing the FBI to seek new and innovative methods to …
Article • December 9, 2021
Policy Paper Cites Benefits of Eliminating Federal Marijuana Prohibition by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Data collected concerning the positive impact on federal incarceration rates and their cost if marijuana were to be decriminalized are impressive. Ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by $571.8 million …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Law of Unintended Consequences: How Defunding the Police Leads to Salary Increases by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The desire to implement significant reforms in American policing, particularly in metropolitan areas, is not new. However, the specific demand to literally defund the police is a nascent concept. Contemporary reform …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
DNA Standards Often Make the Difference Between Life and Death by Michael Fortino, Ph.D by Michael Fortino, Ph.D. DNA analysis standards can make the difference between misleading results and the truth behind a crime, so much so, that this highly sensitive analysis is often the deciding factor in ruling life …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
California Supreme Court: Furnishing Drugs Resulting in Overdose Death Does Not Automatically Trigger Great Bodily Injury Enhancement by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell The Supreme Court of California held that a conviction by itself for furnishing a controlled substance to someone who subsequently suffers injury from its use is insufficient, …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
Newark Police Didn’t Discharge a Single Firearm in 2020, and the Crime Rate Fell by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins Amidst the chaos of a global pandemic, social protests, and political upheaval, many people felt as if anything that could go wrong in 2020 went wrong. The avalanche of tumultuous …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
FBI Fails to Track Police Use of Force by Jayson Hawkins by Jayson Hawkins The summer of 2020 was a moment marked by extremes—vast populations around the world were quarantined in their homes for months, interrupted by an eruption of millions onto the streets to protest the killing of George …
Article • September 15, 2021 • from CLN October, 2021
Filed under: Drug Overdose, War on Drugs
The Legacy of Len Bias by Jayson Hawkins How death of basketball star helped launch unjust war on drugs by Jayson Hawkins On June 19, 1986, Len Bias died of cardiac arrhythmia caused by a cocaine overdose. Bias was a basketball superstar at the University of Maryland and had been …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Mississippi Supreme Court: Drug Buy Between Dealer and User Doesn’t Constitute Conspiracy to Distribute by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Mississippi reversed a defendant’s conviction after finding the State failed to prove he conspired with anyone to distribute methamphetamine. The Court’s en banc ruling was …
Article • August 15, 2021 • from CLN September, 2021
Police Target People of Color for Cannabis Crimes Despite Legalization by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Five more states joined the growing list of jurisdictions where cannabis has been legalized or decriminalized. But the new laws are a hodgepodge of regulation. Some states explicitly changed the laws to prevent …
Police Funding Reallocated to Community Programs Nationwide by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Defunding the police is not a new concept. The idea has just been largely ignored by lawmakers until recently. Advocacy groups have flooded city council meetings for years while making similar demands. Activist have been pushing …
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