British Transport Police have. so far refused to bring a prosecution, claiming there is not sufficient evidence. The Coroner is yet to decide whether there should be n inquest into her death. Also, although the train company knows the identity of the racist assailant, they still refuse to rev...
In 2015, Black Lives Matter blossomed from a protest cry into a genuine political force. Groups that embraced the slogan hounded police chiefs from their jobs, won landmark prosecutions, and turned college campuses into cauldrons of social ferment. At the University of Missouri, a hunger strike...
homicidepolice investigationclearance ratesblack on black homicideThis essay reviewing a work of journalism about the investigation and prosecution of criminal homicide in South Los Angeles considers the author's argument thatPillsbury, Samuel HSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
“Unfortunately, this marks the 40th prosecution of police officers for misconduct here in our county. And this is the ninth time that we’ve prosecuted a homicide case committed by a police officer. Eight of those cases involved black males, and one of those cases involved a black female,”...
Barr told Fox Business in an interview that aired Friday that the state law enforcement agency, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, should have completed its investigation of the shooting before the charges were levied. He also said that a grand jury should have been used as the prosecution wa...
And that’s when I started to panic. I hadn’t really considered the peril of a failed prosecution when Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg first announced charges against Trump related to the Stormy Daniels hush money scheme. Trump trials tend to pop up so often, and in so many different contexts,...
Case Prosecution: Race, Justice, and Decision-Making See all the content Policing Race & Civil Unrest Books Articles Black Iconoclasm: Public Symbols, Racial Progress, and Post/Ferguson America Featured chapter: Iconoclastic Readings: Anti/Blackness in Post/Ferguson American Cinema ...
Imagine if the Black Lives Matter rioters had weapons and immunity from prosecution. That's what they're talking about. Partisan law enforcement and partisan law enforcement, incidentally, is hardly without precedent. In fact, it's the rule in the third world. This is...
CLASP and Cities United are working to eliminate the violence in American cities related to African American men and boys by centering young Black men and promoting prevention instead of prosecution and intervention instead of incarceration. Our Ground. Our Voices Towards Economic Justice for Young Wom...
Clinton went on to call for “common-sense reforms like ending racial profiling, providing better training on de-escalation and implicit bias, and supporting municipalities that refer the investigation and prosecution of police-involved deaths to independent bodies.” Bernie Sanders also called for refo...