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The War on Marijuana in Black and White
Publisher: American Civil Liberties UnionThis report is the first to examine marijuana possession arrest rates by race for all 50 states (and the District of Columbia) and their respective counties from...
View ArticleNYC Agrees to Settle “Central Park 5” Suit for $40 Million
Five men, who were exonerated in 2002 after being convicted and imprisoned for a highly sensationalized crime, agreed to a settlement of $40 million from New York City to resolve a long-fought civil...
View ArticleFederal Jury Awards $5.5M in Killing of Cleveland Man by Off-Duty Officer
On Tuesday, September 8, 2015, a federal jury awarded $5.5 million to the family of Kenneth Smith, a 20-year old hiphop musician who was shot in the head by an off-duty Cleveland police officer in...
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"They Have All the Power": Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago's South Side
Author: Craig Futterman, Chaclyn Hunt and Jamie KalvenPublisher: University of Chicago Law SchoolPublic conversations about urban police practices tend to exclude the perspectives and experiences of...
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Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department (USDOJ Civil Rights...
Author: U.S. Department of JusticePublisher: Civil Rights DivisionThe United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division issues its August 10, 2016 report on the Baltimore Police Department's...
View ArticleMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court: Flight from Police "Not Necessarily...
Jimmy Warren was arrested on December 18th, 2011 by Massachusetts police investigating a Roxbury break-in. When an officer later saw Warren and another man walking in an area park, they fled. Warren...
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Collaborative Reform Initiative: An Assessment of the San Francisco Police...
Author: U.S. Department of JusticePublisher: Community Oriented Policing ServicesOn Wednesday, October 12th 2016, the Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services released a...
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Handschu v. Police Department of the City of New York, et al. [Decision]
“A federal judge has rejected the settlement of a lawsuit stemming from the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslims, saying the proposed deal does not provide enough oversight of an agency...
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Investigation of the Chicago Police Department
Author: United States Department of Justice Civil Rights DivisionPublisher: United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division"The pattern of unlawful force we found resulted from a collection...
View Article$885K Settlement in Hartford, CT Police Shooting of Family Dog
In February 2017, the city of Hartford, Connecticut agreed to pay the family of Glen Harris $885,000 in settlement for the 2006 city police shooting of their 3-year-old Saint Bernard dog. Hartford...
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