- Six L.A. County sheriff workers get prison for obstructing jail probe [L.A. Times, earlier]
- More thoughts on pros and cons of police cameras [Howard Wasserman/Prawfs, Scott Greenfield]
- Equal time: Heather Mac Donald’s perspective on Ferguson, policing, and race food for thought even if different from ours [City Journal; our earlier coverage of Ferguson]
- “15-year mandatory minimum federal sentence for possessing shotgun shells (no shotgun) almost 20 years after past felonies” [Volokh]
- How much criminal culpability for battered women when their violent partners harm children? [BuzzFeed]
- If Stephen Colbert broke NYC’s wacky knife law on the air, all the more reason to reform it [Village Voice (link fixed now), earlier]
- Details of additional charges in billion-dollar Department of Justice case against FedEx for not policing contents of its packages [WSJ, earlier]
Filed under: Los Angeles, police, prosecution
5 Comments
The Village Voice link doesn’t work.
Bob
Why does the article specify “battered women” and “women”? Shouldn’t a man be just as liable for letting a woman abuse a child? Child abusers are not only men, no matter what feminists would like you to believe.
Village Voice link fixed now, thanks.
[Re: police cameras]
But I WANT it to stifle the Police’s creativity.
The Police’s creativity is part of the problem.
And the baseball example is stupid.
@Jim Collins
The article addresses that issue:
“The laws against failing to prevent child abuse are written to cover both fathers and mothers. And, in fact, women perpetrate 34% of serious or fatal cases of physical abuse of children, according to the latest congressionally mandated national study of child abuse. But interviews and BuzzFeed News’ analysis of cases show that fathers rarely face prosecution for failing to stop their partners from harming their children. Overwhelmingly, women bear the weight of these laws.”