In an effort to understand the legislative agenda setting impacts of social media content, the present study analyzes political discourse on Twitter regarding the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. Using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model to dissect the Twitter conversation aimed at ...
Earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, which also bans no-knock warrants, restricts qualified immunity for police, and establishes a federal registry for police disciplinary actions and misconduct complaints. But Frederique say...
How Federal Consent Decrees Have Been Used in Police Reform Across the US The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of high profile police...
under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.” (Montesquieu) In terms of American women’s history, it was not until 1974 that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act was passed, granting women the right to open a bank account and obtain a mortgage without a male cosigner. Thus, ...
Opportunities to Expand Youth Justice in New York 4 8 12 14 27 Introduction The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May 2020 brought thousands of people to the streets across the U.S., calling for an end to racist policing and a divestment from carceral sy...
Oliver's quote above projects the notion that, rather than being a single act, it is a ‘habitual’ pattern to ‘just take things’ without thinking about the consequences. ‘Just take things’ in this context may be easily understood as either stealing or coveting other people's properties....
authoritarian regimes affiliated to the adversary bloc. By contrast, both the fall of the Berlin Wall and the third wave of democratisation led us to a much murkier scenario.Footnote1Certainly, policing the protest strategies are frequently hotly debated and the criminalisation of social movements ...
A similar dynamic was evident in the nineteenth-century United States (US), with some elements of the "London Model" being incorporated in US policing systems (Lane 1992). Apparently, there was little resistance to the progressive militarization and arming of the 13 New Times, New Crimes: ...
Posted onAugust 5, 2020byDave Rogers—No Comments ↓ Following a lengthy, 3-day debate on police reform — and many close, hard fought votes — the House passed legislation that will restructure policing in Massachusetts in a fundamental way, An Act relative to Justice, Equity and Accountabilit...
II. North Carolina’s Raise the Age Act A. Origins of the Act On December 1, 2019, North Carolina became the final state to “raise the age” of juvenile jurisdiction to eighteen.[7]The JJRA was included within the 2017 state budget and was pass...