Special spotlight issue exploring policing in the United States assembles resources from across the American Bar Association, and the law-related education community. Law Day 2021 will explore “Advancing the Rule of Law Now,” and policing is just one of the central topics within that theme.
Visit - Lawday.orgPolice officers rarely face meaningful consequences for their misconduct, and the public’s accurate perception of this fact has contributed to what can best be described as a crisis of confidence in our nation’s law enforcement.
Susan Hutson is the Independent Police Monitor for the City of New Orleans. She started the job in 2010, as the New Orleans police department was undergoing reforms. In the interview, she discusses police oversight, the role of citizens in oversight, and the calls for reform that have emerged recently across the country.
This lesson can serve as an intervention lesson to help students understand issues raised in use-of-force cases that arise in the community or that are publicized in the press and social media.
Voting-rights organizations and individual voters sued North Carolina, arguing that the state’s map was an impermissible political gerrymander.
