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Another perspective on Community Policing, Part Two

By Ronald E. Hampton* Critics of community policing say that the idea of a friendly beat officer acting as some magic bullet solution for serious crimes such as murders, rapes, assaults, big-time, sophisticated drug dealing and the rising tide of violence fueled by drugs, is laughable. Yet community policing techniques are appropriate for more serious crimes. Once one starts analyzing who commits crimes, one finds that to the extent people do experience serious crimes—especially assault, …

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Another Perspective on Community Policing

By Ronald E. Hampton* Many African-Americans today believe that law and order is not being kept in their communities. The average African-American citizen is terribly dissatisfied with the police and their services in his/her neighborhood. However, in some parts of America, there is an ongoing effort to dramatically reshape the roles of both police officers and the communities they serve. This effort has been led by a handful of police officers, chiefs, criminal justice experts and community …

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HLPR Volume 10.1 is Here!

HLPR is excited to announce that Volume 10.1 has been published and is now available online. This volume's symposium topic is Policing in America on the 50th Anniversary of Miranda v. Arizona, featuring a foreword by Senator Cory A. Booker and Roscoe Jones, Jr. and articles by Elizabeth Joh, Franklin Zimring, Kara Dansky, Katherine Beckett, and Chief Edward Flynn. Volume 10.1 also includes two general essays--about collateral punishment (Joshua Kaiser) and insubordination in Title VII cases …

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On Senate Divisions, Carbon Emissions, and Appointment Decisions

By Robert Seaney* The passing of one of America’s most prolific jurists has sparked a fierce debate over Constitutional interpretation in an entirely different branch of government. Senators Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell immediately took to Twitter to express their intentions to block any nomination advanced by President Obama; Senator Elizabeth Warren responded that such efforts would be “abandoning the duties they swore to uphold.” In the likely event that the Senate does elect to …

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HLPR 2016 Symposium Day 4: Prof. Katherine Beckett: Toward Harm Reduction Policing

Speaker Katherine Beckett, Clarence and Elissa M. ("Lee") Schrag Faculty Fellow at the University of Washington   By Isaac Saidel-Goley Summary Prof. Beckett discussed some of the problematic uses of police discretion, while also arguing that there are ways to channel police discretion to promote social and racial justice. As a case study, Prof. Beckett outlined an innovative diversionary program in Seattle called the Law Enforcement Diversion Program. Discussion To …

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HLPR 2016 Symposium Day 3: Prof. Franklin Zimring on International Comparisons of Killings of and by Police

Panelists: Franklin Zimring, William G Simon Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley Philip Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School   By Kate Epstein “Every year there are dozens of articles in law reviews about capital punishment, and there are none about the use of lethal force,” said Prof. Frank Zimring. The third day of the HLPR Symposium focused on that lethal force, centering on a discussion of police killings in the United States through a comparative …

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