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Predictive policing encompasses the surveillance technologies, tools, and methods employed to visualize crime, target “at-risk” individuals and groups, map physical locations, track digital communications, and collect data on individuals and communities.
Wrongful convictions stemming from false confessions and a growing field of false confession research have paved the way for greater public understanding of factors that lead to false confessions. The authors explore the underlying causes of false confessions and the importance of state-level reform.
State laws should make it clear that allowing suspects to escape immediate apprehension for almost every crime is a more reasonable alternative than killing them. The use of deadly force should be reserved for instances when suspects are objectively an imminent danger to either a police officer or the public.
The mere act of recording an interrogation does not prevent someone from confessing to a crime he did not commit. To truly protect against false confessions, it is necessary to transform police interrogation methods so that they keep up with science and best-known practices. This article presents a framework to reduce police-induced false confessions.
Police interrogation, with its connotations of coercion and a confession-oriented approach, is a controversial part of policing in the United States. In the United Kingdom, however, coerced false confessions have become consigned to history. How did the UK do it?
This month Thomas J. Farrell reviews No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by Jan Haldipur.
This conversation examines the ways in which the chattel slavery system of America’s early history manifests itself in the variety of ways in which Black people are literally and symbolically policed today.
Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part I presented by Rahsaan D. Hall, Director, Racial Justice Program, American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts
Race Matters I: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice September 14-15, 2017 | Detroit, MI
Race Data Matters: Using Expert Testimony and Social Science Data about Discriminatory Policing to Win Pretrial Motions: Part II presented by Alison Siegler, Clinical Law Professor, University of Chicago Law School
See below for materials referenced during the Policing Black Bodies II: Race and Pretrial Practices program.
Racially biased policing takes many different forms, from elevated police presences in the neighborhoods of marginalized communities, to disproportionate street and vehicle stops and searches, to use of force, to outright expressions of racism within some police departments.
Presented by Professor Devon W. Carbado, Associate Vice Chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Race Matters II: The Impact of Race on Criminal Justice January 10-11, 2019 | Los Angeles, CA
NACDL's statement to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice regarding the need for more accountability and transparency in policing to effect meaningful, much-needed reforms.
