by Jo Ellen Nott
On the night of July 26, 2022, an unconscious Black female was raped on the corner of Toulouse and Royal in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A visitor to the city witnessed the sexual violence and called 911 after a deputy constable on the street did nothing ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 29, 2022 a Michigan task force presented its findings and made 32 recommendations to keep young people out of detention facilities, provide them with better legal representation, and offer them more family counseling and mental health treatment. A key recommendation would eliminate most fines ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On July 5, 2022, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that 5.6% of all death penalty sentences in the last 50 years were reversed because of prosecutor misconduct. That percentage represents 550 innocent people who were saved from state sanctioned murder.
The Center’s executive director Robert ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the evening of July 10, 2022, an officer with the Gainesville Police Department (“GPD”) in north central Florida stopped Terrel Bradley, 30, on a pretextual traffic stop. Bradley fled the scene, and within an hour, a police K-9 had ripped his eye out of the ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) signed House Bill 2319 into law on July 13, 2002, making it a misdemeanor offense to record police within eight feet of where law enforcement activity is occurring. State Representative John Kavanaugh (R) first sponsored the bill in 2016, at which time it failed. ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
A hard stop by a police transport van snapped the neck of Richard Cox, 36, of New Haven, Connecticut, leaving him paralyzed on June 19, 2022. Cox had been arrested and handcuffed for the illegal possession of a firearm before he was placed in a van ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Starting with a sex abuse scandal in 2017, the Louisville Metro Police Department has managed to draw the attention of the feds for a range of misconduct from wrongfully killing civilians to throwing beverages at them from unmarked police vehicles. All the cases are open, and ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
In the first week of June 2022, a federal judge decided that a three-drug cocktail including the sedative midazolam is a constitutional method of execution. Pursuant to that decision, Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is asking the state to schedule executions of 25 prisoners on death row. Oklahoma ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
You can buy marijuana legally in New Jersey as of Thursday, April 21, 2022, one day after “World Weed Day.” Governor Phil Murphy signed into law three bills defining the recreational cannabis industry, legalized cannabis use, and decriminalized possession. New Jersey residents now know where they can ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
When cops in L.A. wrongfully use deadly force, they seldom, if ever, receive serious punishments according to a report by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Inspector General. Between 2015 and 2020, sixty-six officers wrongfully used deadly force. Twenty-seven of them were not disciplined and 13 received ...
