Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, by the United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Matthews
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Police Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Civil Rights Division

Responding to the (Dual) Policing Crisis in Ferguson

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-107
Author(s):  
Christy E. Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Police Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
Or Practice ◽  
Civil Rights Division ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Acute Crisis

The police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Missouri, in August 2014 set off a policing crisis that reverberated across the world. The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (DOJ) intervened in this crisis, initiating a pattern-or-practice investigation of the Ferguson Police Department. This investigation resulted in a transformative Findings Report and federal consent decree. To fully assess the impact of DOJ’s intervention, it is helpful to conceptualize America’s policing crisis as a dual crisis: one acute, the other chronic. When assessing DOJ’s intervention in Ferguson through this lens, readers can see that DOJ’s work is an important, albeit partial, response to the chronic crisis and has only an ancillary impact on the acute crisis.

“Great Surface Appeal”

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-142
Author(s):  
Paul M. Renfro
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Safety ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Child Abduction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Great Surface

Chapter 4 recounts how the United States Department of Justice obstructed missing child legislation in the early eighties but eventually buckled under pressure from activists, who deployed an affective politics of child safety to paint the DOJ as cruel and obstinate. The DOJ subsequently transformed into the federal entity most committed to the child safety cause, working to publicize and combat the problems of child abduction, exploitation, sexual abuse, and pornography. The Department’s “conversion” proved vital to the making of a punitive child safety regime in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

The Sword of Damocles: who controls HSBC in the aftermath of its deferred prosecution agreement with the United States Department of Justice?

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-550
Author(s):  
Justin O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
States Department ◽  
Libor Manipulation

HSBC has entered into a $1.92bn deferred prosecution with the Department of Justice in the United States to settle charges that the bank’s compliance systems and corporate governance controls had failed to prevent money laundering and sanctions violations on an industrial scale. The violations spanned the globe and demonstrated fundamental flaws with the bank’s business model. The article evaluates the terms of the settlement and explores the national and extra-territorial implications. It argues that the settlement, the largest ever imposed on a financial institution, marks a significant turning point in the use of criminal prosecution precisely because it occurred just as the still burgeoning London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) manipulation scandal reaches a denouement.

“No Longer the Messiah”: Us Federal Law Enforcement Views of Religion in Connection with the 1993 Siege of Mount Carmel Near Waco, Texas

Numen ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
United States Department ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Department Of Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
States Department ◽  
Federal Law Enforcement

AbstractAt the request of the United States Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury, the author reviewed the actions of Federal law enforcement agencies in Waco, Texas during the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian religious community led by David Koresh, during which dozens of people died, including both federal officers and civilians. This article analyzes the views of religion which predominate among Federal law enforcement agents and which came to light during his review of the Waco incident.

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