Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American life, in partnership with The Atlantic.
The First Step Is Figuring Out What Police Are For
By Tracey L. Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School and Tom R. Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, and Founding Director of The Justice Collaboratory, Yale Law School
Tracey L. Meares and Tom R. Tyler argue that America needs to have a broad national discussion about what policing should look like and then make reforms based on data.
Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military
By Rosa Brooks, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy, Georgetown University Law Center
Rosa Brooks, drawing on her experience in the Washington, D.C. Police Academy and her research about policing, contends that police need to stop being trained as if they’re in the military, and that to improve policing we must start by changing the culture and teaching methods of police academies.
