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 | January 30, 2020 | American Indian Law
On Jan. 29, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the first meeting of a White House task force to address the incidence of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. The following is the press release. The Department of...
Lauren Klosinski | October 31, 2019 | Policing
On Oct. 28, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing a pilot program that will allow federally deputized task force officers to use body-worn cameras while serving arrest warrants, or other planned arrest operations, and during the execution of...
The Policing Project NYU School of Law | October 25, 2019 | Policing
This post was originally posted by the Policing Project on October 23, 3019.In a new report produced by the Policing Project and released today, the Axon AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board is calling for increased regulation of Automated License Plate Readers by...
Scott Shackford | October 2, 2018 | Policing
For decades, California has kept police misconduct records exempt from public records requests, denying citizens (and even prosecutors and defense attorneys in court cases) easy access to information about law enforcement behavior. Now that secrecy is coming to an...