Category Archives: Police Misconduct
Accountability for Police Misconduct Necessary Tool for Reform
On October 17, 2019, a 24-year-old black man named Demonte Ward-Blake was driving a vehicle in Oxon Hill, Maryland, with his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter…
Texas, Harris County Lead Country in Exonerations and Wrongful Convictions
As of July 21, 2022, the National Registry of exonerations reports that there have been 3,184 exonerations in criminal cases since 1989. These numbers…
Police Misconduct, Abuse and Violence: A Continuing Social Disorder
The National Registry of Exonerations announced on March 15, 2022, that 33 of the 45 exonerations announced in February involved people falsely accused of…
The Perils of a Traffic Stop and Injustice of Qualified Immunity
THE PERILS OF A TRAFFIC STOP The Stanford Open Policing Project (SOPR) reports that police conduct 50,000 traffic stops daily. These traffic stops result…
The Costs of Wrongful Convictions and Incarceration
As of April 1, 2022, the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) reported 3,050 exonerations in the U.S. since 1989. These cases represent 26,700 lost…
Criminal Justice Reforms Face Political Fear Mongering
In March of 2021, Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam signed a Democratic-sponsored legislative bill into law that repealed the state’s death penalty—the 23rd such…
The Tragedy of H. Rap Brown and the Legacy of Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
He was born Hubert Gerold Brown. He would become known as H. Rap Brown. He evolved into Imam Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin. His name became…
No Knock Warrants, License to Kill
There are essentially two kinds of warrants that allow the police to search a residence in pursuit of a criminal suspect or in connection…
Corruption in HPD Narcotics Unit Continues to Reverberate
On January 28, 2019, the Houston Police Department staged a militarized “no-knock” raid on a residence at 7815 Harding Street. The raid became infamously…
Prosecutor, FBI, Police Misconduct leads to Exonerations in Malcolm X Murder
On February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom located at Broadway and West 165th Street in New York City. The…
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