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Louisiana Rapper’S Case Speaks To Bigger Problems In The Criminal Justice System, Andrea L. Dennis, Erik Nelson, Michael Render
Louisiana Rapper’S Case Speaks To Bigger Problems In The Criminal Justice System, Andrea L. Dennis, Erik Nelson, Michael Render
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This article published on April 25, 2016 at the Huffington Post examines the case of McKinley Phipps. He was sentenced to thirty years of hard labor for a crime that, to this day, he insists he did not commit. During the trial prosecutors used Phipps’s rap persona and lyrics - remixed for special effect - to carefully construct a story of Phipps’s guilt. The article discusses how Phipps lyrics and persona contributed to his conviction and the progress of his appeals.
The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Part 2, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Part 2, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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This article updates the author's previous article on the statistics on deaths resulting from police taserings.
The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
The Persistence Of Fatal Police Taserings, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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There is, newfound interest in obtaining accurate information about police use of force in this country. This means, among other things, that we need reliable statistics about police violence. We cannot address the problem of unlawful police violence unless we possess adequate statistical information about all police violence, lawful as well as unlawful.
This article explores the violence of police tasering and the statistics of this practice.