The Marshall Project: Policing in Trump’s America
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| Opening Statement January 23, 2017 |
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“The dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America is wrong. The Trump Administration will end it.” Just moments after President Trump was sworn into office Friday the White House posted an online statement titled “Standing up for our Law Enforcement Community.” In it was a demand that America “needs more law enforcement, more community engagement, and more effective policing.” In it also were a series of misleading statistics about crime and murder rates. White House Related: “American carnage,” in perspective. Vox More: How the new White House and the police differ on gun laws. The Washington Post
Chris Hansen is back, and so is his memorable show in which adults pretend to be children to “sting” would-be sexual predators. A decade after “To Catch a Predator” last aired, the reboot is titled “Hansen v. Predator.” Hansen says he understands the criticism of the “gotcha” theme he’s embraced, but as long as he’s right with police, prosecutors, and viewers he’s not bothered if “some retired reporter from the Houston Chronicle with his glasses down his nose wants to take me to task.” TMP’s Maurice Chammah talked to Hansen. The Marshall Project More details of the federal case against El Chapo. Appearing in federal court in Brooklyn, Joaquin Guzman Loera was arraigned, got a public defender, and pleaded not guilty Friday to charges he led a multi-billion-dollar drug cartel that killed and looted and trafficked in massive volumes of narcotics. The defendant, said the federal prosecutor in charge of the case, is “a man who has known no other life than one of crime, violence, death and destruction.” The defense did not seek bail, which would not have been granted anyway. The New York Times Related: Was his extradition a gift to Donald Trump? The New Republic Welcome to the deadliest prison in Florida. The Dade Correctional Institution, where a mentally ill prisoner was scalded to death in a hot shower three years ago, endured a new wave of fatalities in 2016; 13 inmates died, several by suicide. Overall, Florida set a dubious record in 2016 with 366 prison deaths, many of which occurred in suspicious circumstances. This despite what prison officials and lawmakers had promised would be a new era of reform. Miami Herald What to do when a rape defendant is a pillar of a small community. A sex assault case against Billy Joe Miles, a well-connected businessman in Daviess County, Kentucky, is raising questions about conflicts of interest, particularly for his friend, the sheriff, who has refused to turn over the case to a counterpart in another jurisdiction. For some, the concern is that the deck is heavily stacked in favor of the defendant. Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
Presaging a policy shift, the Trump administration delays a federal hearing over the policing consent decree between the Justice Department and officials in Baltimore, Maryland. The Baltimore Sun Georgia lawmakers say the laws they enact are immune from court challenges if they say so, a dubious argument the state’s courts soon will test. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The largest housing project in the United States, in Queens, New York, once a place of unremitting violence, has gone 365 days without a shooting. The New York Times Isaiah McCoy, a former death row inmate in Delaware, went free late last week after a judge found him not guilty in a retrial of the murder case against him. The News Journal No state law in Virginia requires the police to notify the public when a death is later classified as a homicide. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t a good idea. Roanoke Times
Trump, cops, and crime. As he proved on Friday, our new president has proven adept at making people fear rising crime rates, even where those rates aren’t rising. The Washington Post Protest and dissent. “If you're okay with emboldening increased violence against poor people because you enjoy looped gifs of Nazis getting punched, you're a douche.” Popehat A needed reprieve for New York’s young men. Police enforcement actions are down in the big city, as is crime. Let’s just pause to appreciate the good news. New York Daily News In defense of James Comey. Start with: Would Donald Trump’s replacement at the FBI make you feel better about checks and balances? By Benjamin Wittes. Lawfare The case against ‘pansy’ policing. Why the de-policing meme, pitched by police union officials, dishonors so many of those who serve. Grits for Breakfast
Quote of the Day: “What I personally witnessed Sat Jan21 in DC was a total collapse of the social order,” said Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, a Trump ally, of the peaceful protest of hundreds of thousands of citizens that generated not a single arrest. Twitter Lost Hope of the Day: Wen Ho Lee, Leonard Peltier, Don Siegelman, and many more notable prisoners never got the clemency they sought from President Obama. USA Today Missed Opportunity of the Day: The good news is that New York has thousands of cops who are trained to deal with mentally ill suspects. The bad news is that they too often aren’t deployed in time to help. New York Daily News Question of the Day: Are police and prosecutors in Orange County destroying evidence as the informant scandal there reaches new scope? The Huffington Post Related: Are contempt charges next? OC Weekly Secrecy of the Day: A majority of states lack transparency into their asset forfeiture laws, so no one has any idea how much the police are taking or where the proceeds go. Reason |
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