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Officers who fall behind on core training and who stop getting regular updates on recent case law become a civil liability to themselves and their employers.
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The Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up Abu-Jamal's claims that prosecutors improperly excluded blacks from the jury that convicted him of murdering Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
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Although it's common to see the term "stop and frisk," it's possible that there might be justification for a stop, but not for a frisk.
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What the exclusionary rule has actually meant in practice is that thousands (maybe millions) of criminals have been able to stop the prosecution from using critical evidence of their guilt to hold them accountable for their crimes.
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Before traveling to another state where you intend to carry off duty, do a little research and inquire about local laws regulating firearms possession on private property.
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There are a lot of really good docs out there who think the medical academics who authored the EMJ report have their heads in their posteriors.
Read More →The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police officers in Utah who searched a suspect's home without a warrant cannot be sued for violating his constitutional rights.
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Notwithstanding the explosion of youth criminality, the court has largely continued to treat juvenile offenders in a more lenient and paternalistic fashion than adults.
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Much of what I learned in basic academy in the late 1960s is no longer good law. If I were still operating on the basis of 40-year-old understandings, I wouldn't be very effective.
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"The first duties of the officers of the law are to prevent, not to punish crime. It is not their duty to incite to and create crime for the sole purpose of prosecuting and punishing it." — U.S. Supreme Court, Sorrells v. U.S.
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