Louisiana prosecutors are seeking to reinstate the overturned conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Duncan, despite the victim’s mother believing in his innocence and the flawed evidence used to convict him.
The Trump administration’s drug boat campaign has killed roughly one person a day off the coast of Latin America since early September, drawing criticism from legal scholars and foreign policy analysts for its lack of legal, moral, or democratic justification and its disregard for due process and human life.
Radley Balko and Ezra Klein argue that the militarization of American policing is a sign of a shift towards authoritarianism, and that the only way to resist this trend is to build state-level counter-capacity and to remember that the true power lies with the citizenry.
The Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the use of the Army in domestic policing, has been brought into the national spotlight by President Donald Trump’s repeated use of federal troops on American soil, raising questions about the boundaries between military and civilian authority and reigniting debate about the militarization of policing.
Radley Balko argues that Donald Trump’s federalization of Washington, D.C. is driven by projecting power rather than addressing crime, as evidenced by the fact that violent crime in D.C. has reached its lowest point in 30 years and the administration has cut security funding to D.C. by 44 percent.
A new study has found that 36 out of 87 in-custody deaths involving restraint in Maryland should have been classified as homicides but were instead labeled as accidental, natural or undetermined, highlighting systemic issues in how deaths in police custody are investigated nationwide.
President Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops and Marines in Los Angeles has resulted in low morale among the ranks and the misuse of federal power, as the troops are not being deployed to protect the public but to intimidate those who dissent.
California lawmakers are introducing SB 627, the No Secret Police Act, to prohibit law enforcement officers from obscuring their identities during operations, requiring them to wear uniforms and markings clearly identifying their name or badge number, in order to enforce the most basic standard of democratic law enforcement.
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