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The End Of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, Ben Grunwald, Jeffrey Fagan
The End Of Intuition-Based High-Crime Areas, Ben Grunwald, Jeffrey Fagan
Faculty Scholarship
In 2000, the Supreme Court held in Illinois v. Wardlow that a suspect’s presence in a “high-crime area” is relevant in determining whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigative stop. Despite the importance of the decision, the Court provided no guidance about what that standard means, and over fifteen years later, we still have no idea how police officers understand and apply it in practice. This Article conducts the first empirical analysis of Wardlow by examining data on over two million investigative stops conducted by the New York Police Department from 2007 to 2012.
Our results suggest …
Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?, David Cole
Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
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Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
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Formalism, Realism, And The War On Drugs, David Cole
Formalism, Realism, And The War On Drugs, David Cole
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
One of the ways our legal system has avoided confronting this ugly reality is through a commitment to legal formalism. Legal formalism allows us to ignore the social determinants that my AUSA friend saw every day as he prosecuted federal drug cases. As my colleague Professor Michael Seidman has suggested, legal formalism, which has been effectively critiqued and displaced by legal realism in many other areas of law, continues to exercise considerable influence over the way we think about criminal law. This formalist approach, in my view, has strongly affected the way we approach the drug problem. One consequence is …