Stops, Searches, and Arrests

…Traffic and Street Stops (2011),https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf;see also, e.g., Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department 47–73 (2016), https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/883366/download; New York Civil Liberties Union, Stop-and-Frisk Data,…

Bias-Free Policing

…Dep’t, Draft Policy 317: Fair and Impartial Policing 4 (Aug 24, 2018), https://www.baltimorepolice.org/317-draft-fair-and-impartial-policing. Read More https://policing.civilrights.org/report/bias-free-policing/recommendation-2-1-adopt-comprehensive-bias-free-policies/ 2.2 Ensure officers are trained in bias-free policing. Officers should be trained inbias-free policing…

The Use of Force

…Md. 2017), https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/925056/download. [v]See, e.g., Las Vegas Metro. Police Dep’t, Use of Force Policy 6 (2017), https://www.lvmpd.com/en-us/InternalOversightConstitutionalPolicing/Documents/Use-of-Force-Policy-2017.pdf;Anaheim Police Dep’t, Anaheim PD Policy Manual, Use of Force Policy 300, at §…

Accountability

…Bd., http://www.city.cleveland.oh.us/CityofCleveland/Home/Government/CityAgencies/PublicSafety/OPS_PoliceReviewwithSeattle Gov’t, Cmty Police Comm’n, http://www.seattle.gov/community-police-commission. [viii]Nat’l Ass’n for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, Agency Profile-Albany, https://www.nacole.org/agency_profile_albany. [ix]Nat’l Ass’n for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement, Who should make the…

Recommendation 2.1 Adopt comprehensive bias-free policies.

…Bias Free Policing 5 (eff. July 10, 2016), https://www.nola.gov/getattachment/NOPD/Policies/Bias-Free.pdf/.   [vii] See e.g., Seattle Police Department Manual Section 5.140 (eff. July 15, 2018) https://www.seattle.gov/police-manual/title-5—employee-conduct/5140—bias-free-policing.   [viii] SeeBaltimore Police Dep’t, Draft…

Recommendation 4.3: Prohibit and regulate tools and tactics with a high risk of death or injury that are disproportionate to the threat.

…105.05 (2015), http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2015/0609/20150609_081455_OMS-105-05_APPROVED_06-08-15.pdf. [viii]Denver Police Dep’t, Operations Manual 105.05 (2015), http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2015/0609/20150609_081455_OMS-105-05_APPROVED_06-08-15.pdf; Michael Roberts, Denver Cops Change Shooting-at-Moving-Vehicles Policy After Hernandez Decision, Westord, (June 9, 2015, 7:29am), https://www.westword.com/news/denver-cops-change-shooting-at-moving-vehicles-policy-after-hernandez-decision-6788874;Police Exec. Res. Forum,…

Community Policing

…Cops Who Want to Help ICE Crack Down on Illegal Immigration, Pennsylvania Is a Freefor-All, ProPublica (Apr. 12, 2018), https://www.propublica.org/article/pennsylvania-immigration-ice-crackdown-cops-freefor-all. [v] See, e.g., New Orleans Police Dep’t, Operations Manual: Immigrations…

The First Amendment and Free Speech

…Forum, 60 (2006), https://www.policeforum.org/assets/docs/Critical_Issues_Series/police%20management%20of%20mass%20demonstrations%20-%20identifying%20issues%20and%20successful%20approaches%202006.pdf;see also Martin Kaste, Police Struggle to Balance Public Safety with Free Speech During Protests, NPR(Aug. 26, 2017), http://www.npr.org/2017/08/26/546167516/police-struggle-to-balance-public-safety-with-free-speech-during-protests(“One tactic that is quickly catching on is separation….

Responding to Crises

…Fatal Law Enforcement Encounters (Dec. 2015), https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/storage/documents/overlooked-in-the-undercounted.pdf. [iii]Mental Health America, Position Statement 59: Responding to Behavioral Health Crises (citing Wash. Post, “Fatal Force,”( 2016), https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings-2016/)http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/issues/position-statement-59-responding-behavioral-health-crises (last visited Dec. 22, 2018)…