ALHS Legal Studies

"A 14-year-old boy is in critical but stable condition after St. Louis Metropolitan police officers shot him, officials said Sunday."

"The Los Angeles Police Department says it is investigating after an officer fatally shot a black man following a foot chase."

"Tulsa police shooting: 5 discrepancies from Terence Crutcher's death"

"As many as 100 of the city's 1,500 patrol officers are being assigned a camera after a judge set aside the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association's (BPPA) edict that its union members not wear them until the demand is included in the union membership's contract."

"Charges against the Bronx cab driver who beat the attacker trying to rape his wife have been dismissed at the urging of the dead man's family."

"An 18-year-old Ohio woman accused of livestreaming the rape of her 17-year-old friend with a social media app was trying to record the assault as evidence, the woman's attorney said recently in a defense a prosecutor flatly dismissed."

This has less to do with problems of social media and more to do with the depravity of watching a "friend" get raped but doing nothing to stop it...

"Pay, safety cited as concerns in Nebraska prison study"

"The Iowa Supreme Court has banned life prison sentences without the possibility of parole for juveniles convicted of First-Degree Murder. The court ruled 4-3 Friday that the punishment amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the Iowa Constitution."

"Edward Nero, the second Baltimore police officer to stand trial in the Freddie Gray case, was found not guilty of all charges in connection with Gray's death in 2015. Nero, 30, was charged with second-degree intentional assault, reckless endangerment and two counts of misconduct in office for his actions the day Gray, 25, suffered a fatal spinal injury in police custody."

"Still reeling from terrorist attacks, Belgium's prison system has become "apocalyptic.""

"Inmates in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department may participate in its Tattoo Removal Service, a joint program of the Inmate Services Bureau's Education Based Incarceration (EBI) unit, the Medical Services Bureau, and Homeboy Industries. Once considered permanent, tattoos are now removable through laser treatments. The highly successful Tattoo Removal Service uses that advanced technology, and benefits inmates who commit to bettering themselves while in custody so they can re-enter our communities truly with "a clean slate." "

"A routine visit to Target turned into a viral video that has led dozens of women to come forward with troubling stories about the same man."

"The city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to settle the federal lawsuit filed by the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy killed by police gunfire in November 2014, according to a settlement announced Monday in U.S. District Court."

"Delivered like a well-placed baton blow, the report states that the Chicago Police Department's "own data gives validity to the widely held belief the police have no regard for the sanctity of life when it comes to people of color.""

"The former owner of an event planning company has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud and money laundering."

"Through the efforts of the Omaha Police Department and the FBI, investigators developed Blake as a suspect. Investigators determined that Blake was on parole from a prior robbery offense. As part of his parole, he was required to wear an electronic monitoring device on his ankle. Data from the device was analyzed and Blake was tracked by time and location to the places where each robbery occurred, to the locations where both vehicles had been stolen and to the locations where all three vehicles had been abandoned after the crimes."

"more than a third featured clauses allowing - and often mandating - the destruction of records of civilian complaints, departmental investigations, or disciplinary actions after a negotiated period of time. The review also found that 30% of the 67 leaked police contracts, which were struck between cities and police unions, included provisions barring public access to records of past civilian complaints, departmental investigations, and disciplinary actions. Samuel Walker, a professor in criminology at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, said there was "no justification" for the cleansing of officers' records, which could contain details of their use of force against civilians."