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Article • July 1, 2025 • from CLN July, 2025
California Court of Appeal Issues Writ of Mandate Directing Superior Court to Hold Evidentiary Hearing Under State’s Racial Justice Act, Ruling Defendant Provided Sufficient Evidence to Establish Prima Facie Claim of Implicit Bias by San Diego Police by Sagi Schwartzberg The California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, granted a …
Class Incarceration Has Become a Prominent Factor in Mass Incarceration by Charles "Keith" Wampler Although the issue is not even close to being resolved, the United States has, in recent years, made some noticeable progress on the issue of racial disparity in our criminal justice system. Regardless of what research …
Reining in Police Monitoring of Social Media by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Social media has revolutionized connectivity, allowing people to develop and maintain relationships well beyond what was possible just a generation earlier. The revolution has, however, enabled the joint planning, execution, and documentation of crimes. It is …
Computing Fear in Black and Brown Communities by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Over 50 years ago, fear of crime was even then associated in the minds of the governing bodies with Black and brown communities. An effort to combat crime based on that fear spurred the creation of …
Article • September 1, 2023 • from CLN September, 2023
Biased Algorithms Are Still a Problem by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson The reduction of biases in criminal justice is an ongoing problem that does not lend itself to easy solutions. Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) may one day be that solution, though Boston University associate professor of law and assistant …
Article • May 15, 2023 • from CLN June, 2023
Washington Supreme Court Announces Adoption of ‘Rule of Automatic Reversal’ When Prosecutor Flagrantly Appeals to Racial and Ethnic Bias During Voir Dire by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson The Supreme Court of Washington, sitting en banc, announced a new rule for situations involving flagrant appeals to racial and ethnic bias …
California Court of Appeal Announces ‘Plausible Justification’ as Standard for Claiming Entitlement to Discovery Under Racial Justice Act of 2020 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson In a case of first impression, the Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, vacated a trial court’s denial of a criminal defendant’s …
Article • April 15, 2023 • from CLN May, 2023
Computing Fear in Black and Brown Communities by Michael Thompson by Michael Dean Thompson Over 50 years ago, fear of crime was even then associated in the minds of governing bodies with Black and brown communities. An effort to combat crime based on that fear spurred the creation of software …
DNA-Based Computer-Generated Mugshots Put Entire Community on Wanted List by Eike Blohm, MD by Eike Blohm, MD Parabon NanoLabs uses DNA from crime scenes to predict the appearance of suspects. A computer-generated mugshot released by the Edmonton Police Service was so generic that thousands of young Black men fit the …
Article • February 15, 2023 • from CLN March, 2023
California Court of Appeal Affirms Grant of Suppression Motion Where Officer’s Pat Search of Defendant Based on High Crime Area, Baggy Clothes, Criminal Record, and Suspect in Separate Case by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Court of Appeal of California, First Appellate District, affirmed the Solano County Superior Court’s …
Article • November 15, 2022 • from CLN December, 2022
Predictive Policing Doesn’t Reduce Crime but Does Increase Targeting of Vulnerable Communities by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian Our society is increasingly reliant on data and technology in nearly every sector, both public and private. Law enforcement and public safety institutions are regular consumers of data offerings. Tech companies …
Article • July 15, 2022 • from CLN August, 2022
Drug Detection Dogs Are Unreliable and Reflect the Vicious Heritage of Their Slave-Hunting Dog and Police-Dog Predecessors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS OFTEN deploy trained dogs to detect drugs, but how accurate are the canine sniffs? Since the dog cannot testify, the courts have simply accepted …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Racially Disparate Sentencing Patterns Prevalent Amongst Federal Judges by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The existence of racial disparity in federal sentencing practices is a common, well-researched issue. The greatest proportion of studies focus on the aggregate disparity between the imposed sentence length of Black versus white defendants. Research …
Article • June 15, 2022 • from CLN July, 2022
Expert Forensic Testimony Flawed by Implicit Racial Bias by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian The unnecessary deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are examples of incidents that have raised public awareness and hastened conversations about racial bias in the criminal justice system. Reforms in policing have received the …
Publication • 2022
State of NY OIG -Racial Disparities in the Admin of Discipline in NY State Prisons-Nov. 2022 State of New York Offices of the Inspector General Racial Disparities in the Administration of Discipline in New York State Prisons November 2022 Lucy Lang Inspector General EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The myriad manifestations of systemic …
Article • November 15, 2021 • from CLN December, 2021
Racist Police Violence Reconsidered by John McWhorter by John McWhorter, Quillette.com Tony Timpa was 32 years old when he died at the hands of the Dallas police in August 2016. He suffered from mental health difficulties and was unarmed. He wasn’t resisting arrest. He had called the cops from a …
Article • October 15, 2021 • from CLN November, 2021
The Real Minority Report Predictive Policing Algorithms Reflect Racial Bias Present in Corrupted Historic Databases by Matthew Clarke 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. …
Publication • 2021
Struggle for Power - the Ongoing Persecution of Black Movement by the US Government, 2021 STRU R E W O P R O F E L GG LACK B F ON O I T ENT U M C N E VER ERS O P G G . U.S GOIN E …
Article • February 15, 2021 • from CLN March, 2021
North Carolina Supreme Court: Superior Court Abused Discretion by Flatly Prohibiting Questions on Racial Bias During Voir Dire by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The Supreme Court of North Carolina held that a superior court abused its discretion when it flatly prohibited the defense’s questions during voir dire regarding racial …
Article • January 15, 2021 • from CLN February, 2021
Staggering Injustice by Derek Gilna Experts Say Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification Errors Are Widespread and Contribute to Thousands of Wrongful Convictions by Derek Gilna In a time where much of the American criminal justice system is justifiably under intense pressure to eliminate potential racial bias, there is at least one issue …
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