Broadcast on the NBC `Today' program; What the jury concluded in the case; Case in which Arthur McDuffie, a black man who was riding a motorcycle and was pursued by police 12 years ago; Investigation of the case; Question if the four white officers beat McDuffie to death; What the jur...
in which specially trained police officers respond to behavioral health calls. Yet while MPD officers handle some behavioral health calls properly, we identified many incidents in which officers—including officers on the Crisis Intervention Team— mistreated and used excessive force against people with b...
The Carlsbad Police Officers Association, for example, was one of several police unions and agencies that sued to block the release of records created before the new law took effect, arguing it did not retroactively apply to existing cases. The ACLU ...
“After Mr. Briney cleaned and oiled his 20-gauge shotgun, the power of which he was well aware, defendants took it to the old house where they secured it to an iron bed with the barrel pointed at the bedroom door. It wasrigged with wirefrom the doorknob to the gun’s trigger so ...
In the Federal Courts Recent Cases Addressing 'Use of Force' The article discusses several court cases in the U.S. addressing the use of force. These include one on the case wherein a female arrestee brought action against city officers and county officers for excessive force, another on the...
officers and the City based on state and federal constitutional and civil rights claims, including excessive force and improper training. Steve argued the case before the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and helped secure the reversal of the trial court’s dismissal of key claims. The...
Cases Guide to the Use of These Cases Cases can be used in many ways. And the same case can be analyzed several times for different pur- poses. The main criterion for the order of these cases is the amount of technical vocabulary—or text princi- ples—that are needed to read the ...
conduct on the job unless they violate "clearly established" constitutional rights. But qualified immunity for police officers, in particular, has come under heightened scrutiny in recent years, as it makes it more difficult for victims to hold law enforcement accountable for use of excessive force...
(Farrell et al.2010; Farrell and Pfeffer2014). These studies show that, even in countries that have passed anti-THB legislation, police officers conflate THB with (physical) force, kidnapping and coercion and are less likely to qualify cases as THB where victims have consented to the ...
Mother believes Detroit officers used excessive force in police-involved shooting Family of boy killed in hyperbaric chamber explosion at Troy medical center retains attorney Michigan State Police searching for pedestrian running on I-75 find Ohio man's body Tawas Point Lighthouse keepers needed - ...