All Articles tagged Law Enforcement

• Justice Commentaries
  September 02, 2022 EDT
  A Deadly Combination: Violent Police Training, Racial Bias, and Lenient Courts
  Elizabeth Harmon

  This Note explores how law enforcement training and culture fail officers so greatly that unjustified civilian deaths are inevitable, and the fault lies with the training and culture.

• Justice Commentaries
  September 27, 2020 EDT
  INDEPENDENT CRITICAL INCIDENT INVESTIGATION AGENCIES: A UNIQUE FORM OF POLICE OVERSIGHT
  Richard A. Rosenthal

  This article examines and compares the statutory framework for these agencies and examines theoretical best practices in this unique area of police oversight.

• New York Appeals
  September 13, 2019 EDT
  LET’S BE REASONABLE: WHY NEW YORK COURTS NEED TO EMBRACE THE FEDERAL STANDARD FOR ANALYZING POLICE-CIVILIAN ENCOUNTERS
  Yuval Simchi-Levi

  Under the Fourth Amendment, federal courts and many other state courts have determined that whether police officers acted lawfully hinges on whether the officers’ conduct was reasonable—plain and simple.

• Justice Commentaries
  May 28, 2019 EDT
  UNDER THE HOOD: BRENDAN DASSEY, LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS, AND JUDICIAL IGNORANCE
  Michele LaVigne

  This article analyzes the interrogations of Brendan Dassey and explains why the behavior of law enforcement in the face of Brendan’s communication deficits contributed to an involuntary, unreliable confession.

• Justice Commentaries
  November 08, 2017 EDT
  A MATTER OF DUE REGARD: POLICE MISCONDUCT, THE NEW YORK STATE COURTS, AND THE EMPTINESS OF THEORETICAL JUSTICE
  Felicia A. Reid

  This article argues that judicial accountability, in both civil and criminal courts, for police misconduct does not exist.

• Justice Commentaries
  December 17, 2016 EDT
  CONFRONTING THE ELEPHANTS IN THE COURTROOM THROUGH PROSECUTOR LED DIVERSION EFFORTS
  Erica McWhorterDavid LaBahn

  This article examines how prosecutor use of pretrial intervention efforts are useful for achieving public safety.

• State Constitutional Commentary
  December 02, 2015 EDT
  TO SNIFF OR NOT TO SNIFF: MAKING SENSE OF PAST AND RECENT STATE AND FEDERAL DECISIONS IN CONNECTION WITH DRUG-DETECTION DOGS—WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
  Linsay N. Zanello

  This note seeks to explore and reconcile the conflicts regarding the courts’ various decisions involving drug-detection dogs.

• General
  August 08, 2009 EDT
  LA MIGRA IN THE MIRROR: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, RACIAL PROFILING, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ONE MEXICAN CHASING AFTER ANOTHER
  Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez

  Symposium remarks

• General
  May 08, 2009 EDT
  JUDICIAL ACTIVISM AND PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION: A STEP TOWARDS DECREASING HATE ATTACKS
  Kathleen A. Bantley

  This Article focuses on the impact that judicial decisions and legislative acts increasing the rights of gays and lesbians have on “hate crimes.”