Cathy Shufro | February 9, 2018 | Policing
Professor Tracey Meares has sandwiched this trip to Chicago between two teaching days at the Yale Law School, timing it for when her kids are out of the house. On this cool Thursday morning in May 2017, she’s back in her favorite city, where she lived for almost 20...
Howard Fischer | January 8, 2018 | Policing
Police cannot put a GPS device onto a vehicle to track its movements without first getting a warrant, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. In a precedent-setting decision, a majority of the justices said people in vehicles have a “reasonable expectation” of...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher | July 21, 2017 | American Indian Law
Here is the opinion in Bishop Paiute Tribe v. Inyo County. An excerpt: The Bishop Paiute Tribe (the “Tribe”) seeks a declaration that they have the right to “investigate violations of tribal, state, and federal law, detain, and transport or deliver a non-Indian...
Max Isaacs | June 15, 2017 | Policing
Few controversies in policing are as fraught as the use of Terry stops—temporary detentions made by officers upon reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, often accompanied by protective pat-down searches known as “frisks.” Studies have shown that racial minorities...
Kate Mather | March 30, 2017 | Policing
The Los Angeles Police Commission on Thursday launched its latest effort to answer one of the biggest questions facing law enforcement today, one that has increasingly tested the LAPD and other agencies as video consistently inspires fresh scrutiny of policing: When...
