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More Officers Face Charges in On-Duty Shootings, but Few See Jail Time

  • December 30, 2015
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What was once a rarity has now become increasingly common: police officers facing criminal charges in the deaths of civilians. In Albuquerque, two officers will stand trial in the death of a homeless man. In Cincinnati, a campus police officer has been charged in the fatal shooting of a man during a traffic stop. In Chicago, where a video captured the death of Laquan McDonald at the hands of the police, an officer was charged with murder. But even as high-profile police shootings have attracted more scrutiny over the past year, one thing remains clear: The law gives the police…

Cleveland Officer Will Not Face Charges in Tamir Rice Shooting Death

  • December 29, 2015
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CLEVELAND — A grand jury declined on Monday to charge a Cleveland patrolman who fatally shot a 12-year-old boy holding a pellet gun, capping more than a year of investigation into a case that added to national outrage over white officers killing African-Americans. In announcing the decision, Timothy J. McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor, said he had recommended that the grand jurors not bring charges in the killing of the boy, Tamir Rice, who was playing with the gun outside a recreation center in November 2014. Mr. McGinty said the fatal encounter had been a tragedy and a “perfect storm…

Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet

  • December 29, 2015
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Vor 25 Jahren wurde Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet Hachenburg gedenkt an den kurdischen Jugendlichen, der von einem fremdenfeindlichen Jugendlichen erstochen wurde. 250 Menschen zogen – wie damals – erneut durch die Stadt um an den rassistisch motivierten Mord zu erinnern. Am Parkhaus weist nun eine Gedenktafel auf das Geschehen vor 25 Jahren hin. Am Rande der Gedenkfeier kam es zu einem Überfall auf einen Teilnehmer, er wurde mit einem Messer bedroht und geschlagen. Vor 25 Jahren wurde Nihat Yusufoglu ermordet Hachenburg. Mit Entsetzen mussten die Bürger der Stadt Hachenburg vor 25 Jahren feststellen, dass aus niedrigen Beweggründen ein Jugendlicher aus dem…

Traking Enforcement Rates in New York City 2003-2014

  • December 29, 2015
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A Report of the Misdemeanor Justice Project of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Presented to the Citzen’s Crime Commision December 11, 2015 1 Tracking Enforcement Rates in New York City, 2003-2014 Introduction by President Jeremy Travis Preeti Chauhan, Ph.D. Todd C. Warner, Ph.D. Adam G. Fera, M.A. Ervin Balazon, M.P.A. Olive Lu, M.S. Megan Welsh, Ph.D. December 11, 2015 GOALS OF THE REPORT This report seeks to better understand longitudinal trends in the different types ofenforcement actions that bring the public into contact with law enforcement officials.Our primary analyses focus on four types of enforcement activity: the issuance…

New York City Policing, by the Numbers

  • December 29, 2015
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The warnings began even before Bill de Blasio was sworn in as New York City’s mayor in January 2014. A safe New York depended on the aggressive policing tactics that began in the 1990s and flourished under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his police commissioner, Ray Kelly. Without those tactics, the doomsayers said, the city would be swamped by a 1970s-style crime wave. After a federal judge ruled in 2013 that the Police Department’s “stop and frisk” policy was so sweeping that it violated the Constitution, Mr. Kelly was furious. “Violent crime will go up,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the…

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