“Serious social unrest is coming in the next 5-10 years in this country as the police state gets dialed down.”
The legal blogosphere has been abuzz with Judge Willett’s recent “dubitante” concurrence in Zadeh v. Robinson, in which the Twitter superstar and...
You would be hard pressed to find an issue that unites a wider and more diverse set of allies than opposition to qualified immunity. Justices Thomas...
Solitary confinement is one of the cruelest, most severe conditions that our criminal justice system may impose on prisoners. The combination of tiny...
Our primary federal civil rights statute, colloquially called “Section 1983,” says that any state actor who violates someone’s constitutional rights...
Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine invented out of whole cloth by the U.S. Supreme Court that protects government agents, including particularly...
The National Police Misconduct Reporting Project (NPMRP) and PoliceMisconduct.net (PM.net) were the products of a non-governmental, non-partisan...
I’ve blogged several times now about Cato’s ongoing campaign to challenge the doctrine of qualified immunity. This judge-made doctrine — invented out...
Qualified immunity is a doctrine that can shield police officers and other public officials from civil suits when they violate individual rights in...
This week I made my debut at In Justice Today, a blog founded by the Fair Punishment Project at Harvard Law School. My first post warns reformers not...
In a speech about criminal gangs before police officers on Long Island, New York today, the President of the United States openly encouraged police...
Dearest NPMRP readers, I wanted to take a moment to say that the daily feed is on indefinite hiatus. We’re not shutting the site down, we’re just...
Here are the nine reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, July 12, 2017: Bexar County, Texas: An officer was arrested for family...
Here are the eight reports of police misconduct tracked for Tuesday, July 11, 2017: Update: Baton Rouge, Louisiana: The City faces another federal...
Here are the nine reports of police misconduct tracked for Monday, July 10, 2017: Fall River, Massachusetts: An officer was arrested for assaulting...
Here are the nine reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, July 7, 2017: Update: Newcomerstown, Ohio (First reported 4/19/17): A now-former...
Here are the eight reports of police misconduct tracked for Thursday, July 6, 2017: Update: Utah Department of Public Safety: A now-former officer...
Here are the nine reports of police misconduct tracked for Wednesday, July 5, 2017: Update: Atlanta, Georgia (First reported 6/28/17): The officer...
Here are the ten reports of police misconduct tracked for Monday, July 3, 2017: Update: Baltimore, Maryland (First reported 3/1/17): A now-former...
Here are the eight reports of police misconduct tracked for Friday, June 30, 2017: Louisville, Kentucky and Indiana State Police: An LMPD officer...
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