By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com The muddied area of the law in civil actions against police officers involved in a shooting is one where Justice Neil Gorsuch’s participation and vote could make a difference, most likely in favor of protecting the officers. The Supreme Court heard argument last week in County of Los Angeles v. Mendez,…
Missing from the national debate on police officer-involved shootings, such as when deadly force is justified and how often race plays a role, is one key component: actual data.
The FBI tracks records on plenty of crimes, but it has not collected statistics on the number of times police use force when interacting with the public.
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Have the frenzied media coverage of incidents involving police shootings of African Americans and the protests of Black Lives Matter activists affected the Supreme Court? The Court has not addressed a case involving race and the criminal justice system in some time, but two such cases are scheduled for oral argument…
The time has come for the Justice Department to investigation Chicago’s police department.
Their killings prompted nationwide protests about the use of force by police but their names are missing from a federal government’s official database of homicides by officers.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Without a federal requirement to disclose police killings, it’s impossible to know how many cops kill civilians in any given year. That could change under new legislation that would require all police departments to report law-enforcement killing to the Justice Department, Essence reports. Currently the FBI keeps a tally on the…
