Grits has a busy week, however listed here are a couple of odds and ends of which Grits readers needs to be conscious: When officers are ind...
Grits has a busy week, however listed here are a couple of odds and ends of which Grits readers needs to be conscious:
When officers are indicted
The Balch Spring police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards has been indicted. Nevertheless, these instances in opposition to regulation enforcement officers are notoriously troublesome to win. In Arlington, two jail guards concerned within the demise of an inmate caught on video received sentences of deferred adjudication and only one 12 months on probation. MORE: The Texas Tribune offered up a feature on the rarity of police-officer indictments and even on-the-job punishment associated to deadly shootings in Texas. RELATED: From the Marshall Challenge, "White America's Unshakeable Confidence in the Police."
Black of us jailed longer in Travis
A new study of the Travis County Jail commissioned by Grassroots Management discovered that black of us keep in jail longer than whites when charged with the identical or related offenses. See coverage from the Austin Statesman.
Scholarship re: Texas' junk science writ
Here is a new academic paper that goes on Grits' to-read record evaluating Texas' junk science writ with the same regulation in California, vetting the language of each.
States ban some in-court witness IDs
Massachusetts and Connecticut have banned in-court eyewitness identifications when defendants had not beforehand identified the topic or ID'd them in an out-of-court process. That is a extremely good reform. Texas ought to contemplate it, particularly since our present requirements aren't keeping problematic IDs from being presented to juries.
Rural woes driving incarceration
Rural jurisdictions at the moment are driving mass incarceration's upward trajectory to a higher extent than their city counterparts, with excessive incarceration charges in rural counties whereas charges in city and suburban counties are declining. The Wall Street Journal dug into into rural America's underlying issues driving crime charges there, which run deeper than only a lock-em-up mentality amongst their prosecutors.
Greatest practices for crime prevention
Police Chief journal revealed a characteristic detailing nine evidence-based crime-prevention strategies based mostly on "finest practices on crime management and prevention for regulation enforcement executives based mostly on what is understood from analysis."
When officers are indicted
The Balch Spring police officer who shot and killed Jordan Edwards has been indicted. Nevertheless, these instances in opposition to regulation enforcement officers are notoriously troublesome to win. In Arlington, two jail guards concerned within the demise of an inmate caught on video received sentences of deferred adjudication and only one 12 months on probation. MORE: The Texas Tribune offered up a feature on the rarity of police-officer indictments and even on-the-job punishment associated to deadly shootings in Texas. RELATED: From the Marshall Challenge, "White America's Unshakeable Confidence in the Police."
Black of us jailed longer in Travis
A new study of the Travis County Jail commissioned by Grassroots Management discovered that black of us keep in jail longer than whites when charged with the identical or related offenses. See coverage from the Austin Statesman.
Scholarship re: Texas' junk science writ
Here is a new academic paper that goes on Grits' to-read record evaluating Texas' junk science writ with the same regulation in California, vetting the language of each.
States ban some in-court witness IDs
Massachusetts and Connecticut have banned in-court eyewitness identifications when defendants had not beforehand identified the topic or ID'd them in an out-of-court process. That is a extremely good reform. Texas ought to contemplate it, particularly since our present requirements aren't keeping problematic IDs from being presented to juries.
Rural woes driving incarceration
Rural jurisdictions at the moment are driving mass incarceration's upward trajectory to a higher extent than their city counterparts, with excessive incarceration charges in rural counties whereas charges in city and suburban counties are declining. The Wall Street Journal dug into into rural America's underlying issues driving crime charges there, which run deeper than only a lock-em-up mentality amongst their prosecutors.
Greatest practices for crime prevention
Police Chief journal revealed a characteristic detailing nine evidence-based crime-prevention strategies based mostly on "finest practices on crime management and prevention for regulation enforcement executives based mostly on what is understood from analysis."
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