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Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

City of St. Louis ‘betrays’ its pledge to alter legal positions protecting abusive police, critics say

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • March 10, 2022

Six months after St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones’ administration promised to reconsider its defense of legal doctrines that protect.

Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Qualified immunity: A get out of court free card for abusive police

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • March 10, 2022

Police officers almost always avoid legal liability for abusing citizens because of the doctrine of qualified immunity. The doctrine.

Opinion

Libel decision shut down segregationists clinging to Jim Crow

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 24, 2022

To understand why New York Times v. Sullivan is one of the great First Amendment victories of the past.

Opinion

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s unconstitutional attack on the press

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 17, 2022

From afar, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s attempt to prosecute a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter looks like the folly of.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Wandering cops shuffle between departments, abuse citizens

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 17, 2022

Timothy Loehmann wanted to be a police officer like his dad. The Independence, Ohio, police department hired him but.

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