Terror

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• In 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till of Chicago was lynched in the Mississippi Delta while visiting family.
• The case ignited a flame within the Civil Rights Movement that has yet to be extinguished.
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• Armed police are relatively rare in the UK.
• Just 4% of the 142,526 officers in England and Wales are armed (compared to all 708,000 in the US).
• Some of the worst actors in recent UK policing, including Wayne Couzens and David Carrick, have been part of these specialist squads.
• My research has shown that these elite special units are hotbeds of the most warrior-like aspects of street police culture.

Militarising the police

• Studies suggest the influence of militarisation on local police departments reinforces the most aggressive aspects of warrior street police culture.
• In militarised police departments, both supervisors and peers expect police officers to err on the side of control and order maintenance, even if it involves the use of violence.
• Studies show a positive correlation between a police department’s acquisition of militarised equipment and its use of deadly force.
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  Where stop-and-search policing with a firearm became routine

  The military approach is at odds with what UK police are supposed to represent, and further erodes public confidence in police.

Holding officers to account

• The current legal mechanisms to hold police to account for misconduct are insufficient.
• And when police departments are seen as mishandling misconduct incidents, this can be perceived as a lack of desire by the institution to hold offending officers to account.
• While the outcry among armed officers suggests that increased accountability impedes their ability to do their jobs, the reality is that mechanisms to hold officers responsible for misconduct – even when a death has occurred – are few and far between.
• Rather than contesting close scrutiny, officers should embrace being held to the highest legal standards.

• Both issues reflect a court that has announced revolutionary changes in doctrine and must now grapple with how far the new principles will reach.
• Two years ago, the court began what many consider to be a constitutional revolution.
• The new supermajority of six conservative justices rapidly introduced new doctrines across a range of controversies including abortion, guns, religion and race.

Focus on guns

• Zackey Rahimi is a convicted drug dealer and violent criminal who also had a restraining order in place after assaulting his girlfriend.
• The court will decide whether the federal law prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order violates the Second Amendment.
• In the 2022 case of New York Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen, the court announced a new understanding of the Second Amendment.
• If the right to carry a gun can be regulated but not eradicated, limited but not eliminated, where is the line?
• The Rahimi case will provide a critical test of this historical approach to the boundaries of constitutional rights.

The power of the administrative state

• The court’s conservatives tend to see the actions of federal agencies as violating the constitutional principle of limited government.
• They fear that the federal government is likely to use its vast power abusively if it is unconstrained.
• In this view, the expansion of the administrative state allowed an end-run around the Constitution’s limits on government power.
• In the last few years, the court has emphasized new doctrines limiting the power of federal agencies.
• Overruling this precedent would strip power from administrative agencies and reallocate decisions to Congress or to courts.