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Free Access Granted to Valuable Court Decision Summaries

Interested in the latest court decisions on use of force, search and seizure, off-duty confrontations, and a long list of other topics of vital interest to proper law enforcement? Now you can access some of the best legal reports available–FREE, online. Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, the nonprofit organization that produces outstanding legal seminars for...
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How Force Science Saved 2 “Gun Cops” from Trial for Murder

For the first time, a scientific reconstruction of how an unarmed suspect must have moved during a confrontation with police has been successfully introduced into the British criminal justice system, exonerating 2 officers who were facing murder charges after shooting the man dead. The officers, who’d been accused of lying to cover up their “execution,”...
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Study Reveals Important Truths Hidden in the Details of Officer-Involved Shootings

Ideas for research projects can germinate from the least likely moments, as when a student asked Firearms Trainer Tom Aveni if he’d ever visited the ACLU’s website. He hadn’t (“Why would I even want to go there?”), but out of curiosity he did. There in a section dedicated to “police abuse” he read a statistic...
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Ejected Shell Casings Can’t Reliably Tell Much About a Shooter’s Location

Nearly 8,000 rounds fired by Los Angeles County (CA) sheriff’s deputies have now conclusively proved what the Force Science Research Center first asserted more than 2 years ago: The single greatest influence on where spent shell casings land when ejected from a semiautomatic handgun is how the pistol is physically manipulated by the shooter, not...
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Was Suspect’s Shooting A “Police Execution?”

Until the Force Science Research Center entered the case, no one knew precisely how Randall Carr ended up killed by a police bullet that tore into his body near his rectum and blew a hole in his heart. His angry relatives, with Johnnie Cochran’s legal team behind them, insisted it had to be a deliberate...
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Court Tosses Cop’s Manslaughter Indictment After A Briefing On Force Science Findings

A DEA special agent and former township SWAT officer who was indicted for first-degree manslaughter after killing a suspect who was fighting to grab the officer’s gun has been vindicated by a federal appeals court, thanks in part to studies by the Force Science Research Center. A grand jury in Brooklyn (NY) indicted the agent,...
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