[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Human beings, regardless of training and experience, are not robots. They have unique physical attributes, states of health and life experiences that shape the context in...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Jones v. United States, (D.C. Ct. App. 2017) Prince Jones, not a real prince of a guy, called two escorts. When they showed up, he forced them to perform sex acts at...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Commonwealth v. Gerhardt, (Mass. 2017) A Massachusetts state trooper stopped Thomas Gerhardt just after midnight for driving without lights. Approaching the car, the...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Roell v. Hamilton Board of Commissioners, et al., (6th Cir. 2017) Gary Roell had a serious, chronic mental illness. He quit taking his anti-psychotic medications in June...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]In 1910, Frederick Winslow Taylor developed a scientific theory about how best to improve productivity in the workplace. In his book The Principles of Scientific...
[vc_section css=".vc_custom_1540328728009{padding-top: 3em !important;padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]United States v. Ellis, 2017 WL 3641867 (N.D. Cal. 2017) Purvis Lamar Ellis, allegedly a member of the violent Oakland...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Stephenson v. Neal, (7th Cir. 2017) John Stephenson was convicted of killing three people in 1996. Though the trial lasted eight months, the jury only took one day to...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Law enforcement is an increasingly complex industry. In what other fields do the practitioners wield power and authority over life or death, freedom or confinement? In...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]Editor's note: This article originally appeared in The Chief’s Chronicle; New York State Association of Chiefs of Police A successful civil rights case brought under 42 USC...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]The use of unmanned aerial vehicles in public safety continues to grow. According to the Center for the Study of the Drone in a May 2018 report, at least 910 state and...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"][vc_column width="2/3"]Policies. General Orders. Standard Operating Guidelines. Standard Operating Procedures. Directives. In public safety, we use a lot of different words...
[vc_section css="vc_custom_1525482743015{padding-bottom: 3em !important;}" el_class="container"]As we’ve followed the rapid development of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence related to cell site location information (CSLI), we’ve told you about several cases likely to...
