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NACDL supports the videotaping of all law enforcement interrogations from beginning to end and calls upon Congress and state legislatures to pass legislation mandating this practice.

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.

Coalition letter from the NJ Coalition for Transparent Policing to the leadership of the New Jersey state legislature regarding proposed legislation to make law enforcement disciplinary records accessible to the public as government record (Senate Bill 2656).

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.

This application is designed to help NACDL assess the suitability of your jurisdiction/agency to participate in our Full Disclosure Project. Decisions regarding applications will be made based upon the information provided in this application. You are welcome to submit additional supporting documents that can further assist us in assessing the capacity and infrastructure your organization.

The Full Disclosure Project aims to disrupt the culture of secrecy that systematically and pervasively shields law enforcement misconduct by changing police secrecy laws and empowering the defense community to track police misconduct.

Coalition letter to New York City Police Department Inspector General Philip Eure regarding an audit of the Criminal Group Database to eliminate incorrect, overbroad, and racist data and the consequences of being wrongly included in such a list.

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.

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.

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.