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Closing the Gap Between What is Lawful and What is Right in Police Use of Force Jurisprudence by Making Police Departments More Democratic Institutions | Semantic Scholar

DOI:10.36643/mjrl.21.2.closing
Corpus ID: 148364707

@article{Smith2016ClosingTG,
  title={Closing the Gap Between What is Lawful and What is Right in Police Use of Force Jurisprudence by Making Police Departments More Democratic Institutions},
  author={Jonathan Smith},
  journal={Michigan Journal of Race \&amp; Law},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:148364707}
}

Jonathan Smith
Published in Michigan Journal of Race &amp… 24 April 2016
Law, Political Science
Michigan Journal of Race & Law

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot to death in Ferguson, Missouri, by police officer Darren Wilson. Members of the Ferguson community rose up in response. Protests demanding that police violence against African Americans cease and that accountability for police misconduct be addressed erupted across the country, and they have not subsided since. Incidents in Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; WallerCounty, Texas; and elsewhere have kept the movement alive. The mass media, the…