Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.
The problem is no longer whether warning signs exist. The problem is whether departments will adopt a noncompensatory, tiered, evidence-based screening architecture that forces...
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Core Thesis Modern law-enforcement screening is failing at the front end because it remains too dependent on subjective, clinician-mediated judgment and too underdeveloped as...
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Executive Summary This thought-piece argues that the NYPD’s current disciplinary database is not a meaningful transparency tool because it does not permit disciplined...
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After the badge, the Department still makes consequential decisions—about letters, identification, restrictions, and status—but the public has no meaningful way to test whether those...
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I. Support for the TRO Does Not Require Support for the Entire Approach I support the issuance of a temporary restraining order in the...
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The Supreme Court’s decision in Olivier v. City of Brandon, Mississippi, 607 U.S. ___ (2026) is an important narrowing of the practical reach of...
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The public still asks the wrong questions about abuse. Why did she stay? Why did she go back? Why did she keep texting? Why...
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When public power is used for private ends, taxpayer-funded defense stops protecting public service and starts subsidizing the misuse of office. Executive Summary...
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Executive Summary The concept of “scope of employment” is supposed to serve as the central limiting principle in municipal defense statutes. It distinguishes between...
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