Posted inLegal Reform
Major Overhaul For Justice System
The heads of the Los Angeles Police Department and the New York City Police Department along with 130 officials from all 50 states are pushing for four broad policy goals:…
Posted inLegal News
Demilitarizing the Police
Police departments will finally look less like the military. The Department of Defense has finally notified police departments to give back military issued weapons and equipment implementing Executive Order 13688,…
Posted inLegal News
False Sexual Allegations Filed Against 68 Year Old Woman
The Oregonian tells the story of how a chance encounter in a public restroom turned into a nightmare of false sexual abuse allegations against a 68 year old grandmother. Click…
Posted inSystemic Problems
Black American Citizens Being Held At Interrogation Center
The Guardian reports that 3,500 people held at Homan Square, a police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility in Chicago, have been subsequently charged with everything…
Posted inScience
Flaws in Hair Analysis Not Being Reviewed
In 2013, the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board published a memo urging state and local labs to review their hair analysis case files. Since then, two states,…
Posted inLegal Reform
Mine Resistant Vehicles Used For Drug Busts
Mother Jones has a very interesting article regarding the militarization of our local police forces. Their magazine obtained more than 450 local requests for mine resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP.…
Posted inMisconduct
Top Prosecutors Breaking the Law
The State Attorney General in Texas and Pennsylvania are both being indicted. Texas State Attorney General, Ken Paxton is being indicted on felony securities and fraud charges. Pennsylvania State Attorney,…
Posted inExoneration
15 Innocent but Jailed and/or Executed
Cameron Todd Willingham Ellis Wayne Felker Colin Campbell Ross Mahmood Hussein Mattan George Kelly James Bain Raymond Towler Alton Logan Michael Anthony Green Gregory Taylor Rolando Cruz Shawn Massey Ronald…
Posted inLegal Reform
Unequal Justice For Some
A new prison system in Southern California is called "pay-to-stay". A wealthy family was able to upgrade their son's 2-year prison stay at cost of $72,000. According to Peter Eliasberg, legal director…
Posted inLegal News
The Crime Of Being Poor
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the small Louisiana town of Ville Platte. The DOJ is looking into whether poor residents are being improperly jailed without cause…