From Impression to Infrastructure: How Police Hiring Must Be Rebuilt Around Predictive Discipline
The problem is no longer whether warning signs exist. The problem is whether departments will adopt a noncompensatory, tiered, evidence-based […]
Hiring by Hunch, Policing by Damage Control: Why Subjective Clinical Screening Fails to Stop Predictable Police Misconduct
Core Thesis Modern law-enforcement screening is failing at the front end because it remains too dependent on subjective, clinician-mediated judgment
Public but Unworkable: Why the NYPD’s Discipline Database Still Hides the Real Outcomes
Executive Summary This thought-piece argues that the NYPD’s current disciplinary database is not a meaningful transparency tool because it
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Transparency Ends at the Exit: NYPD’s Opaque Separation From Service Process
After the badge, the Department still makes consequential decisions—about letters, identification, restrictions, and status—but the public has no meaningful way
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Legal Commentary: Why I Support a TRO in the N.T. Matter — But Through a More Disciplined Theory of Relief
I. Support for the TRO Does Not Require Support for the Entire Approach I support the issuance of a temporary
Legal Commentary: Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, 607 U.S. ___ (2026)
The Supreme Court’s decision in Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, 607 U.S. ___ (2026) is an important narrowing of
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The Shame of Abuse – How Public Scorn Helps Sustain Silence
The public still asks the wrong questions about abuse. Why did she stay? Why did she go back? Why did
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The Scope-of-Employment Fiction: How Municipal Defense Doctrine Became a Shield for Private Abuse
When public power is used for private ends, taxpayer-funded defense stops protecting public service and starts subsidizing the misuse of
The Scope-of-Employment Fiction: How Public Institutions Stretch a Limiting Doctrine Into a Shield for Private Abuse
Executive Summary The concept of “scope of employment” is supposed to serve as the central limiting principle in municipal defense