“There’s this failed mindset of ‘if we show force, immediately we will deter criminal activity or unruly activity’ and show me where that has worked,” said Scott Thomson, the former chief of police in Camden, New Jersey. We need to be smarter and overwhelm them to nip these things in the bud,” he said. But police dogs are weapons. “Do we know [this] in the way that you know if you put two chemicals together things explode?” said John Noakes, professor of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice at Arcadia University. De-escalation strategies definitely exist. We watched dozens of videos of dog bites, from police body cameras and bystanders’ cell phones. In these records you will find the most recent and the most authoritative articles on the topics, people and events that are shaping the criminal justice conversation. As the Justice Department pushes reform, some push back. According to documents provided to The Marshall Project by Albuquerque police, of the 35 fatal shootings by police between January 2010 and April 2014, 11, … “But this feels emotional. They attack bystanders, police officers, and people suspected of petty crimes. Though these protests began with peaceful demonstrations outside the city’s 3rd Precinct, interactions between police and protesters had escalated. Some not. In a year-long investigation, we talked to the people who train the dogs, the police officers who use them, and the victims who have been mauled by them. When protesters violated the negotiated terms, police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets and took away the wrong lessons, Maguire said. “You have lots of mini protests happening in many places,” said Edward Maguire, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University. “You’ve got to till the soil before you can grow the beans.”. Harris said he had used his backpack as a shield and maneuvered close enough to take the baton of the officer who shot him. Experts say the following decades of research have turned up similar findings. Lynsey Weatherspoon for The Marshall Project The city’s new mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, asked to see the officer’s body camera footage, and learned Kim—as a deputized federal agent—had no recordings. A police officer comes into … That part is harder to answer. “We sort of went backwards.”. But what we need to know as professionals is that there are times, if we go one step higher, we are forcing them to go one step higher.”. The social and political context of the time and place also affect what happens. This is how a democracy is policed. themarshallproject.org - In the cell phone video, a man lies sprawled in a parking lot. Communication is also a cornerstone of what police know as “the Madison Model,” created by former Madison, Wisconsin, chief of police David Couper. Thomson encountered this when he tried to make change in Camden. But the era of negotiated management basically fell apart after the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, when protesters blocked streets, broke windows and successfully shut down the WTO meeting and stalled trade talks. Instead, it’s become normal in the U.S. for police departments to revert to tactics that amplify tensions and provoke protesters, Maguire said, including wearing intimidating tactical gear before its use would be warranted. Still, if researchers know it’s not a good idea for police to use force against protests and demonstrations, and that information has been available for decades, why do we still see situations like this happening all over the country? Joanne Archambault, who leads the nonprofit End … Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. “There was a time when the playbook was much more straightforward. The cops responsible for Taylor’s death in Louisville, Kentucky, last March were not wearing body cameras so there is no visual record of what happened. Maguire does training for police officers and has tried, for years, to get buy-in on the idea that there could be a different way. He had joined the second day of protests in this city over the killing of George Floyd, a black man who died after a police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes while bystanders filmed. For example, the Kerner Commission, which was formed in 1967 to specifically investigate urban riots, found that police action was pivotal in starting half of the 24 riots the commission studied in detail. MINNEAPOLIS — Last Wednesday, Marcell Harris was hit by a rubber bullet. Protesters and police have been hurt. If you can't buy into it. Others, like many of the events across America this past week, are spontaneous outpourings of grief and anger. The Berlin police employs people specifically to make announcements in these situations, using different speakers, with local accents or different languages, for things like information about what police are doing, and another speaker for commands. Police departments are rapidly changing how they conduct interrogations, according to a Marshall Project survey of police chiefs and investigators across the nation. “All the bullshit.”. disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch. Escalating force by police leads to more violence, not less. Was this preventable? “When I had the opportunity to build a new police department, I was able to do in three days what would normally take me three years to do, because of work rules, because of the bureaucracy of collective bargaining agreements—there are a lot of impediments to reform,” Thomson said. With no police presence to be seen, he and other protesters were celebrating a victory. Couper, the creator of the Madison Method, said, “It’s this whole attitude of, ‘We keep order because we kick ass, and it’s us against them.’ (...) We've got to root those people out and say, ‘Look, this is the job that we expect. It’s also just hard to change police culture. Some K-9s even have their own adorable Instagram accounts. Hidden in Bill Passed Over Trump’s Veto: Limits on Police Militarization themarshallproject.org - Eli Hager. Illustrations by Ross Sneddon, Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice, A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, We investigated how police use dogs as weapons. Interactions between police and protesters are, by their very nature, tough to study. Watching a peaceful protest turn into something much less palatable is hard. I'm sorry. And if you are unfortunate enough to get bitten by a police dog, good luck holding anyone accountable. Huntington, WV – Marshall University is moving on from head football coach Doc Holliday after 11 seasons. “Trying to find folks at the last minute that you can put out there in soft clothes and talk to people, frankly and in my opinion, wouldn’t work that well,” Ginger said. The Marshall Project Yesterday at 5:15 PM Before Donald Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, the president ... in recent months has hammered a phrase that … Holliday joined the Thundering Herd in 2009 and led the team to an 85-54 record. A lot of this pushback from police has to do with some legitimate officer safety concerns related to de-escalation, Maguire said. All but hidden in the military spending bill that Congress enacted in its first override of a Trump veto is a new restriction on police … Does anyone know how to stop it from happening? But just because there’s no data about protests that can be easily compared in a chart doesn’t mean we’re bereft of information, said Pat Gillham, a professor of sociology at Western Washington University. Some kinds of protests are highly organized with top-down plans that are months in the making. Batts was police commissioner during the violent clashes between police and protesters that followed the 2015 death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore police custody. Obi the police dog had thousands of Instagram followers for being "cute and derpy." Reporting by Dana Brozost-Kelleher, Andrew Fan and Ellen Glover. His work on the streets was another matter: He was trained to hunt down humans. ProPublica and The Marshall Project hosted a Digg Dialog with retired San Diego Police Sgt. The police would meet with the organizers of the protest, and they would lay out ground rules together that would provide for an opportunity for protesters to do exactly what they have a right to do,” said Ronal Serpas, a former police chief in New Orleans and Nashville who’s now a professor of criminology at Loyola University in New Orleans. And different police tactics.” In Baltimore on Saturday, for example, a police lieutenant mollified a crowd by reading out loud the names of victims of police brutality, while protesters outside City Hall threw bottles at police in riot gear and police used tear gas on the crowd, WBFF-TV reported. Even when researchers get a good vantage point to observe protests in the real world—for example, by embedding within a crowd—the data that comes out is more descriptive and narrative as opposed to quantitative. Few ever get justice. Former Madison Police Chief David Couper in his office with posters of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, in Wisconsin. “You have to be in front of it. “The adrenaline starts to pump, the temperature in the room is rising, and you want to go one step higher. After 2008, cities reduced police spending as the Great Recession depleted their coffers. We learned a lot about the dogs, which have names like Drogo, Missile, Vader, Storm and Rambo. Former law-enforcement officials also said good policing of demonstrations isn’t as simple as just showing up with an approachable demeanor. These are some of the findings of an investigation by The Marshall Project, with AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute in Chicago. She found that one key element is transparent communication—something Nassauer said helps increase trust and diffuse potentially tense moments. Not all police officers trust this model, however. The Marshall Project: How the police shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her own home How the police shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her own home. Trump supporters storming the Capitol are waving the thin blue line flag — hailed as a sign of police solidarity — as they fight police officers. A series on the damage police dogs inflict on Americans, published in collaboration with AL.com, IndyStar and the Invisible Institute. George Floyd popped the bubble. The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch. The police chief, Shields, pushed the Justice Department to allow her cops on the task forces to start using the devices, and was told no. ", James Ginger, a veteran police monitor who is now overseeing the Albuquerque Police’s settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, agreed that only this longer-term trust-building exercise works. Police unleashed pepper spray, projectiles and tear gas. There has been a lot of hard the past few days, as people in dozens of cities have released pent-up anger against discriminatory police tactics. We obtained dog-bite data from police departments around the country, including the agencies in the 20 largest U.S. cities. Nonprofit journalism about criminal justice, A nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system, This article was published in partnership with. “But we make the argument that [de-escalation] makes officers more safe, by reducing violent confrontations with protesters. Reporting by Challen Stephens and Ashley Remkus. When protests take a turn like this we naturally wonder … why? A Marshall Project review of state records found that six of the 48 waiver requests came from Memphis police for non-violent crimes ranging from open container violations to reckless driving. Reporting by Abbie VanSickle, Maurice Chammah, Michelle Pitcher, Damini Sharma, Andrew Calderon and David Eads. Turns out, we do know some of these answers. Cars and buildings have burned. It recommended that police eliminate “abrasive policing tactics” and that cities establish fair ways to address complaints against police. This story was updated to include additional comments from Anthony Batts. Of course, as Gillham pointed out, negotiating and managing a protest can’t really work if the protest wasn’t organized ahead of time. The “negotiated management” model of protest policing called for officers to meet with protesters in advance to plan events together to specify the times, locations and activities that would happen, even when that included mass arrests. It was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a … There are no national standards for police dog training, yet dogs are responsible for sending thousands of Americans to hospital emergency rooms every year. It was a collaboration between two American, non-profit news organizations, The Marshall Project and ProPublica.The article was written by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller. But if we know that (and have known that for decades), why are police still doing it? There’s 50 years of research on violence at protests, dating back to the three federal commissions formed between 1967 and 1970. But there is a general consensus.”. Our investigation found at least 32 cases since 2010 in which police officers delayed or failed to offer emergency first aid to people who subsequently died from their injuries. Even if the evidence is, “don’t perform this surgery in that way or someone could die,” it can still take 20 years for the new technique to be widely adopted. It feels like the beginning of the end.” The end of what? By The Marshall Project News December 21 The National Guard Is Using Force on Prisoners After Little Training Ohio guard members patrolling inside prisons trained for a fraction of the 5 weeks required of correction officers. That goes double, he said, if the topic of the protest is police brutality. Here’s how, Police departments love to show off their dogs—. “What a lot of people took from that in policing is, we can’t trust these people. "An Unbelievable Story of Rape" is a 2015 article about a series of rapes in the American states of Washington and Colorado that occurred between 2008 and 2011, and the subsequent police investigations. It’s hard to negotiate with someone about the best way to demand they be fired. This story is part of the series "Mauled" about the damage police dogs inflict on Americans. Previous Marshall Project investigations into cases of attempted police reform in cities like Memphis and Chicago found that cutting law enforcement budgets did not reduce police violence or produce healthier relationships with the neighborhoods they patrol. Researchers have spent 50 years studying the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave—and what happens when the two interact. If officers come into a situation already wearing protective body armor and face shields, that can make protesters feel uncomfortable and under attack long before there’s any kind of confrontation,” Maguire said. “What we’ve been going through,” he said, referring to heavy-handed and often deadly policing of African Americans. De-escalation, of course, does not guarantee that a protest will remain peaceful, and when protests take an unpredictable turn, it can be challenging for police to estimate the appropriate level of force. Reached by text, Batts said that certain events, like fires and police retreats, “inspire” crowds. Either way, the messages are delivered in a calm, measured voice. Officers in riot gear at a demonstration on May 30 to call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, in Minneapolis, Minn. often deadly policing of African Americans, the way crowds of protesters and crowds of police behave—and what happens when the two interact, three federal commissions formed between 1967 and 1970, the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, one key element is transparent communication, it can still take 20 years for the new technique to be widely adopted, tasers to force two college students out of their vehicle. We first talk with Eli Hager, staff writer for … “I’m nonviolent,” he said. Lartey is a staff writer for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that covers the U.S. criminal justice system. The Marshall Project receives funding from the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations and other organizations that support efforts to … “There’s different dynamics. Video editing by Celina Fang and Jovelle Tamayo. “The time to make friends isn’t when you need them,” Thomson said. The disconnect between rank and file and executive leadership—commonly cited as an impediment to policing reform—also seems to get in the way of improving policing of protests. One thing they will tell you is that when the police respond by escalating force—wearing riot gear from the start, or using tear gas on protesters—it doesn’t work. His strategy for dealing with protesters was to send officers out to talk with demonstrators, engage, ask them why protests are made, listen to their concerns and, above all, empathize. The police department was so dysfunctional that the city took the unprecedented step of disbanding the force and reconstituting a whole new agency from scratch. by Simone Weichselbaum, The Marshall Project . The Problems With Policing the Police. You just have to find another job.’”. Maguire compared it to trying to change hospital procedures by using evidence-based medicine. “When you have overly aggressive crowds you have to address them,” said Anthony Batts, who led departments in Long Beach and Oakland, California, as well as Baltimore. “That's the primal response,” he said. All three concluded that when police escalate force—using weapons, tear gas, mass arrests and other tools to make protesters do what the police want—those efforts can often go wrong, creating the very violence that force was meant to prevent. in The Marshall Project. And already police unions across America are pushing back hard on new legislation that promises reform. The Marshall Project … It tends to create feedback loops, where protesters escalate against police, police escalate even further, and both sides become increasingly angry and afraid. At one point, in the 1980s and 1990s, many police departments in the U.S. did try different strategies, Noakes and Maguire said. But the use of dogs varied widely among the police departments for which we got data through public records requests; cities like Chicago and San Francisco reported only one bite each, while in Indianapolis police dogs bit someone every five days . Two passersby and a state trooper hold him to the ground. They bite and maim. Take the Atlanta Police Department as an example. Store windows have been smashed. Anne Nassauer, a professor of sociology at Freie Universität in Berlin, has studied how the Berlin Police Department handles protests and soccer matches. Protesters threw water bottles, built barricades and destroyed nearby property. “No. On Saturday the city’s chief Erika Shields earned plaudits for meeting face to face with protesters, empathizing with their grief and fear, and even reprimanding some of her own officers: “I’m standing here because what I saw was my people face to face with this crowd and everyone is thinking, ‘How can we use force to diffuse it,’ and I'm not having that.” But mere hours later, her department was trending on social media again—this time because officers had used tasers to force two college students out of their vehicle, even though they did not appear to be posing any threat. Here’s how you can do it too. Design and development by Elan Kiderman, Katie Park and Gabe Isman. Some peaceful. The Marshall project In many cities, police officers are more likely to be white than the citizens they are sworn to protect and serve. “I have good relationships with police and I’ve been working with them for 25 years, and I’ve never experienced pushback like I do on this,” Maguire said. New York, 2020 (accessed December 29, 2020). Dogs have served as instruments of violence in incidents dating back to the days of slavery, and as recently as the Black Lives Matter protests. The Parker Creek Project is essential for the city as it fulfills two of the Mobilize Marshall goals, providing infrastructure benefits and enhance the appearance of the city. That, experts say, speaks to a cultural attitude that is endemic to the profession, and is hard to change with new chiefs or rules. On Thursday night, he returned to the same spot to watch the precinct burn. 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