FW: Five ways to improve the policing of rape
Dianne Tramutola-Lawson
From: The Marshall Project [mailto:in...@themarshallproject.org]
Sent: Friday, December 18, 2015 5:53 AM
Subject: Five ways to improve the policing of rape
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Five ways to improve rape investigations. If there is anything to be learned from “An Unbelievable Story of Rape,” published this week at The Marshall Project, it’s that rape investigations can be improved in many ways. We asked TMP’s Ken Armstrong and ProPublica’s T. Christian Miller, who wrote the harrowing story, to list some of the lessons they have learned for policing of sexual assault. The Marshall Project Related: If you missed the intense Digg discussion Thursday with the authors of “Unbelievable,” here are the highlights. The Marshall Project Stingray. Here’s one catalogue you won’t be getting in the mail this holiday season: a secret guide to government gear that local law enforcement officials and federal agents are using to spy on the cellphones of American citizens. Many of the items have never before been publicly disclosed, and all are designed to give domestic police enhanced surveillance capacities. The Intercept The Chicago way. Newly-disclosed documents show Chicago police investigators knew decades ago about corrupt cops who extorted drug dealers, stole drug money, and threatened anyone, including fellow officers, who stood in their way. It was only when some good cops started working secretly for the feds that the whole scheme came undone. Chicago Tribune Related: How hard will state lawmakers push for policing reform in 2016? Pew Trusts The British think our justice system is nuts. This is the story of Robert Jones, “who was jailed in the 1990s for killing a young British tourist in New Orleans. Another man had already been convicted of the crime, but Jones was prosecuted anyway. The judge who sentenced the young father to life in prison now says his skin colour sealed his fate. But even today, more than 23 years after he was arrested, Robert Jones is still not a free man." BBC
It’s John Oliver’s world — we’re just living in it. The British-born comedian, host of the popular HBO show “Last Week Tonight,” was just named The Crime Report’s “Person of the Year” for his sharp commentary on the sorry state of America’s criminal justice systems. TMP’s Christie Thompson compiled the segments. The Marshall Project
The “Fairbanks Four” are finally freed from an Alaska prison as the murder case against them falls apart decades after their convictions. Fairbanks Daily Newsminer Famed Louisiana warden Burl Cain, who announced his resignation earlier this month, is now under criminal investigation by state officials. The Advocate A seven-year-old boy was shot in the back while sitting in his car Wednesday night, one of 12 shooting victims in Illinois in a 24-hour period this week. Chicago Tribune New York inmates hail the end of nutraloaf, the dreaded lump of nutrition served as a meal for prisoners being punished. The New York Times Related TMP Context: What’s in a prison meal? The Marshall Project Connecticut officials plan to open a prison specifically for offenders age 18-25, a move reformers hail as progressive and productive. Hartford Courant
Super due process. Let us count the ways in which police officers have more rights than the average citizen when both are suspected of a crime. Mother Jones You don’t understand mass incarceration. And you probably never will. A wonk’s analysis of of the known unknowns in American corrections. Medium Operation Streamline is a decade old. That’s ten long years of criminalizing immigrants to raise profits for the incarceration industry. Tucson Weekly Not-so-benign neglect. Looking for blame in the first Freddie Gray police trial? Blame the department’s prisoner transportation policy. Slate Now what? The forensic science scandals are here. So is the push for reform. But what exactly will that look like and who will determine the pace of it? The Washington Post
Grim Milestone of the Day: Guns are now killing as many people in America as cars. The Washington Post Related: A gun safety instructor accidentally shot a pastor in a class in California. Huffington Post First Amendment of the Day: A Colorado judge dismissed charges against two “jury nullification activists” charged with jury tampering for handing out pamphlets outside a courthouse this summer. The Denver Post Question of the Day: Can the Koch Brothers and President Obama overcome Congressional inertia on sentencing reform and re-entry programs for ex-offenders? NBC News Related: What Attorney General Loretta Lynch had to say Wednesday about the Second Chance Act, the federal law designed to help ex-offenders. Department of Justice Karma of the Day: The FBI early Thursday arrested Martin Shkreli, the entrepreneur widely despised for trying to raise the price of an AIDS drug this year by 5,000 percent. He’s been charged with securities fraud. Wall Street Journal Related: Did he sell that $2 million Wu Tang Clan album to make bail? New York Daily News Scholarship of the Day: Life sentences are just as arbitrarily imposed as most other sentences in our criminal justice systems. Lewis and Clark Law Review |
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