Lauren Klosinski | December 17, 2020 | Policing
A recent article from Law360 Access to Justice explores the First Circuit decision to recognize a carve-out exception to qualified immunity protections for government officials. The doctrine allows a woman to pursue claims that two detectives’ mishandling of her...
Aya Gruber | September 4, 2020 | Policing
This article was originally published by California Law Review in Sept. 2020. The following is the introduction. On May 25, 2020, a video went viral depicting Amy Cooper, a White woman, calling the cops on Christian Cooper, a Black man, to tell them that an...
Kea Wilson | August 27, 2020 | Policing
But advocates say it’s important we remain vigilant about what replaces it.The California city of Berkeley will become the first in the United States to take police officers out of traffic enforcement and replace them with unarmed employees of a newly formed...
Lauren Klosinski | August 13, 2020 | Policing
On Aug. 17, the Center for Policing Equity, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and UC Irvine School of Law are hosting a virtual event “From Police Reform to a New Public Safety Model.”The event will feature discussion on a number of important topics relating...
Duke University School of Law | July 29, 2020 | Policing
On July 9, Dean Kerry Abrams hosted a conversation with Duke Law faculty members on the current state of policing throughout the United States, with an emphasis on how policies and biases impact communities of color. Panelists discussed the history of policing in the...
