Mitchell Zamoff | February 19, 2021 | Policing
Mitch Zamoff of the University of Minnesota Law School has written the article “Assessing the Impact of Police Body Camera Evidence on the Litigation of Excessive Force Cases” (Georgia Law Review). The following is the introduction. In the wake of several...
Tracey L. Meares and Gwen Prowse | February 17, 2021 | Policing
Tracey L. Meares of Yale University Law School and Gwen Prowse of Yale University have posted “Policing as a Public Good: Reflecting on the Term ‘To Protect and Serve’ As Dialogues of Abolition” (University of Florida Levin College of Law...
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...
