The Brooks Blackboard pages

▼
Showing posts with label policing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policing. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Facial recognition in policing is getting state-by-state guardrails

›
By Paige Gross The AI behind newer police identification tactics is controversial, and instances of false arrests and privacy concerns are d...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Police drones are flying over Maryland. Will state lawmakers regulate them?

›
 By Capital News Service On an afternoon in mid-January, a Montgomery County police drone tracked a shoplifting suspect as he made his way f...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Ohio families who lost loved ones after police incidents criticize new fees for body cam footage

›
By Nick Evans  Former Columbus, Ohio police officer Adam Coy shot and killed Andre Hill shortly before Christmas in 2020. Last November Coy ...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

›
By  Rachel McKane ,  Brandeis University  and  David Pellow ,  University of California, Santa Barbara When does lawful protest become crimi...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

County Exhumes Dexter Wade’s Body Before Family’s Arrival: ‘They Dug Him Up Without My Permission’

›
By Shaunicy Muhammad  Hinds County exhumed Dexter Wade’s body from the local penal colony at 8 a.m. on Monday, hours before his family was ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Feds to probe Trenton police for ‘problematic’ use of force and illegal stops

›
BY:  Dana Difilippo   The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into Trenton and its police department, citin...
Monday, September 25, 2023

The Baltimore Sun’s Reckoning on Freddie Gray

›
  JUSTINE BARRON Five days after Freddie Gray’s death, the   Baltimore Sun   ( 4/24/15 ) published on its website an interactive slideshow o...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Georgia’s RICO Law Is in the News—but Its Use to Silence Protesters Gets a Pass

›
Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) law, modeled on the federal statute designed to attack mob bosses, has been ...