The history of crime, criminal justice, and law enforcement is not easy to unravel. By Dr. Xavier...
Law Enforcement
Suppression of civil protest reflected a prevailing ‘make do’ administrative culture steeped in a Victorian ethos. Introduction...
Colonists considered lying, idleness, drunkenness, and even general bad behavior as crimes. Colonial laws emphasized the survival...
Modern policing has passed through various developmental stages that can be explained by typologies – this is...
Social media has made it easier to expose white supremacists who serve in law enforcement. Increased attention...
Slave patrols slowly morphed into policing units in charge of breaking up insurgencies after the Civil War....
At least five of those arrested for storming the Capitol building on January 6 were active law...
Some officers will subscribe to the extremist ideology of their trainers who they perceive as having authority...
Efforts to destroy the Black freedom movement as well as the use of illegal surveillance and entrapment....
Although it is not widely discussed, and the evening news might not broadcast about it very often,...
The use of social media monitoring products by police raises serious concerns a threat to First Amendment...
Drone technology is changing the world as we know it. Robotics has been at the forefront of...
Law enforcement agencies typically need to provide a compelling reason to collect and store data about members...
Police brutality is an issue that affects many across the world, but in the United States, it...
The campaign to police the civil rights-era Ku Klux Klan offers clear lessons. During his confirmation hearing...
“Overall, the first six months has kind of been a proof of concept of what we wanted.”...
A leaked database shows at least 10% of the far-right militia involve active police or military –...
Mayors are facing a phenomenon – officers slowing their work in the wake of high-profile episodes of...
The government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has...
Academic conversations around defunding or abolishing the police have been around for decades, but now, some politicians...
Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act to prevent exactly this type of action. It doesn’t take a...
Legal estrangement speaks to detachment and eventual alienation from the law’s enforcers. Originally published by the Yale...
This guide seeks to provide information useful for a long-term strategy of police reform. Originally published by...
What will it take to change a brutal and militaristic style of policing in America? Political will....
Giving police military gear doesn’t reduce crime or keep officers safer – but it does hurt citizens’...
Hoover became increasingly worried about communist threats against the United States – and it morphed into all-encompassing...
We can’t reform police until we reckon with their history of enforcing white supremacy. In November 2006,...
When a grassroots campaign called “Stop Killer Cops!” exposed an active White supremacist group inside the Richmond...
It has “a chilling effect against those exercising their constitutional rights to assemble and express their views.”...
Police across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national...