The Policing Project at NYU School of Law, the global law firm Jones Day, the law firm Lawrence & Bundy, and Canfield Law LLC have filed an appeal to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the dismissal of a civil rights lawsuit against Clayton County police. A range of groups and individuals, including law enforcement officials; Tyler Perry, Jamie Foxx, and other prominent Black actors; empirical scholars; Cato Institute; NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Institute for Justice; ACLU of Georgia, have filed amicus briefs in support of the appeal.

The Policing Project at NYU School of Law has published an in-depth study on community safety and alternative first response in Tucson, the second report in a series on public safety innovations across the country.

This week, we’re highlighting testimony we provided to the New York City Council on how the NYPD has skirted democratic accountability in deploying intrusive policing technologies.

The city of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety today announced that it – in partnership with the Center for Crime and Justice Policy at University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the Policing Project at NYU School of Law – has received an $800,000 federal grant to be evaluated by the Policing Project’s new Sound, Accountable, Just, and Effective (SAJE) Policing Assessment tool.

How much does police misconduct and abuse cost each year? How much has your local police department paid out in settlements?

Odds are, it’s all but impossible to find out. Basic questions such as how much is being paid, by whom, and for what kind of misconduct are virtually unanswerable in most places.