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Article • August 1, 2025 • from CLN August, 2025
Beyond the City Limits: How Rural Sheriff’s Departments Are Driving the Spike in Police Killings by David Kim A teenager fatally shot by a deputy on a roadway in New Mexico during the previous summer represents part of an escalating pattern of such incidents. While driving across the plains of …
SCOTUS Announces Rejection of ‘Moment-of-Threat Doctrine’ Because It Improperly Narrows Required ‘Totality of the Circumstances’ Analysis for Fourth Amendment Excessive-Force Claims by David Kim The Supreme Court of the United States held that courts may not apply the “moment-of-threat” doctrine when evaluating the reasonableness of police officers’ use of deadly …
Article • November 1, 2024 • from CLN November, 2024
ICE’s Deadly Force Problem: A Culture of Impunity by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott To no one’s surprise, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) documents about use of force incidents over the six years from 2015 to 2021 were not readily available to the public. ICE leans heavily on …
Brief • 2024
Gilliam v. City of Aurora, CO, Settlement, Excessive Force, 2024 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE OF ALL CLAIMS I. Parties The Parties to this Settlement Agreement and Release of All Claims ("Agreement") are: A. B. II. The CITY OF AURORA, COLORADO, and its present and past employees, including elected officials, appointees, …
Article • March 15, 2024 • from CLN March, 2024
Improvements to Decertification Procedure for Law Enforcement Officers Guilty of Excessive Force Urgently Needed by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In April 2023, Myles Cosgrove was hired by the Carroll County Sheriff’s Department in Kentucky. But about three years earlier, Cosgrove was fired by the Louisville Police Department (“LPD”). Cosgrove …
Harris County, Texas, Settles Civil Rights Case for $1.5 Million Brought by Innocent Man Shot in His Home Five Times by Trigger-Happy Deputy by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott On December 19, 2023, the Harris County Texas Commissioners Court approved a $1.5 million settlement in Joshua Coucke’s case …
Article • February 15, 2024 • from CLN February, 2024
Evidence Shows When Researchers Work Alongside Cops in the Field, De-escalation Training Is Implemented and Effective by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney Traditionally, police officers are taught to take control of a volatile encounter, ensuring the safety of all officers present by approaching an unstable situation with weapons drawn. The …
Brief • December 28, 2023
Waid v. County of Leon, USA, Amicus Brief, Excessive Deadly Force, 2023 No. 22-15382 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT FREDRICK WAID, et al., Plaintiffs–Appellants, v. COUNTY OF LYON, et al., Defendants–Appellees. On Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada …
Article • December 15, 2023 • from CLN December, 2023
Dangerous Encounters: Interactions Between Autistic Individuals and Law Enforcement by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian “Having an encounter with police … is an unsettling encounter for anybody, but for someone with autism, it can be extremely distressing.” — Helen Lyons, Metropolitan Police Detective Superintendent, Adults Neglected, Vulnerable and Abused …
Article • November 1, 2023 • from CLN November, 2023
Sheep and Sheepdogs: Use and Abuse of Non-Lethal Crowd Control Weapons by Benjamin Tschirhart by Benjamin Tschirhart   To understand the true gap between the role of the police as understood by the public (to protect and serve) and as understood by the police themselves, one need look no further than …
Brief • October 10, 2023
Santos v. The U.S.A., NY, Stipulation and Order of Settlement and Dismissal, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 7:21-cv-08009-PMH Document 106 Filed 10/10/23 Page 1 of 6 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ARFHY SANTOS, Plaintiff, -againstTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SPECIAL AGENT WILLIAM SHEEHAN, Individually, 21 Civ. 8009 …
Publication • September 26, 2023
International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement-Sept 2023 A/HRC/54/CRP.7 26 September 2023 English only Human Rights Council Fifty-fourth session International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement Visit to the United States of …
‘Silos’ Can Keep Police Departments From Knowledge of Extent of Police Abuse and Consequences of That Abuse by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Around two decades ago, UCLA law professor Joanna Stewart was a civil rights attorney working on a large class-action lawsuit against the New York City Department of …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Martinez v. City of New York, NY, Memo and Order, Excessive Force, 2023 Case 1:16-cv-00079-NRM-CLP Document 261 Filed 07/19/23 Page 1 of 56 PageID #: 4609 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------x ROSIE MARTINEZ Plaintiff, -against- MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 16-CV-79 (NRM) (CLP) CITY OF NEW YORK, …
Brief • July 19, 2023
Martinez v. City of New York, NY Memorandum and Order, Assault and Battery, 2023 Case 1:16-cv-00079-NRM-CLP Document 261 Filed 07/19/23 Page 1 of 56 PageID #: 4609 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ------------------------------------------------------------------x ROSIE MARTINEZ Plaintiff, -against- MEMORANDUM AND ORDER 16-CV-79 (NRM) (CLP) CITY OF NEW …
Brief • June 27, 2023
Snowden v. Henning, IL, Opinion, Excessive Force, 2023 In the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ____________________ No. 21-1463 DONALD V. SNOWDEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEREMY HENNING, Defendant-Appellee. ____________________ Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. No. 3:19-cv-01322-JPG — J. Phil Gilbert, …
Article • June 21, 2023
L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Who Sued Over Presence of ‘The Executioners’ Deputy Gang Is Member of Another Deputy Gang Called ‘The Gladiators’ by The Los Angeles Times reported that a police officer with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department revealed a suspicious tattoo in court during a civil trial. The …
Cops Aren’t Just Murdering People With Impunity – They Also Conduct Bogus Traffic Stops by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso Police are tasked with upholding the law, but current case law has created a system where officers are actually incentivized to break the law by making bogus traffic stops. …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from CLN July, 2023
Civilian Police With Military Equipment by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon During late May through the first of June 1989, citizens peacefully demonstrated for freedom in China’s Tiananmen Square. On June 4, the government’s response was to authorize a bloody rout of these peaceful protesters using soldiers, tanks, and other …
Article • June 15, 2023 • from CLN July, 2023
‘Contagion Effect’ Spreads Brutality Among Police Officers by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm The case of Tyre Nichols, beaten to death by five police officers during two encounters, has raised the question of how law enforcement officers could possibly commit such a brutal and heinous act. Laurence Miller, researcher …
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