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Queens County judgeships: No Republicans need apply
This series looked at the election process for state and city judges in Queens. After two months of investigation, the reporters found that the Queens County Democratic Organization and its chairman, are in firm control of who makes it to the bench in the borough's state and city courts. The Democrats have an unbroken record of winning judicial elections, going back to at least 1990. The investigation also found the chairman of the Queens County Democratic Organization, also a lawyer, can gain lucrative appointments and contracts from their friends on the bench.
Tags: Queens County Democratic Organization; judicial elections; election process; state judges; city judges; bribery; Brooklyn judiciary; Brooklyn Democratic party; election records; campaign finance; Queens County Bar Association; Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Queens County; Queens State Supreme Court; Office of Court Administration; New York City Civil Court; Commission to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Elections; judgeship; Queens Treatment Court; Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Queens County Republican Party; Commission on Judicial Conduct
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Policing the Police
The American Prospect reports on police abuse of citizens and examines the potential of civil law to influence police practices. The story points to trends nationwide, but focuses mostly on cases in Los Angeles. The major examples include recent successful lawsuits on behalf of people bitten by police dogs, and some controversial shootings by sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles County. There is a "baffling disconnect" between lawsuits and police internal investigations, the story reveals. The author finds that a possible solution to the problem could come from nonprofit legal groups in every city, which would take on individual police abuse cases.
Tags: crime; litigation; courts; Police Watch groups; New York City's Neighborhood Defenders of Harlem; brutality; weapons; fleeing felons; torture
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NYPD Strip Searches
WNYC-AM/FM reports that "Despite a court ruling outlawing the practice, there is evidence that the New York City Police Department is continuing to illegally strip search New Yorkers who are arrested for misdemeanors. ... Four Fordham University students who were strip searched after jumping a subway turnstile, and ... dozens of lawsuits for illegal strip searches. "
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WCBS-TV (New York) airs series on that city's unique and controversial system of "City Marshals," who are appointed to enforce actions of the civil courts on a freelance basis, working for commissions; the system is rife with abuse, Nov. 18 - 21, 1981.
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