Obasogie, Osagie K.

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In a review of 75 police departments' use-of-force guidelines, finds: - 51% mention mental health; - 31% require exhaustion of non-force alternatives; - 27% require intervening in excessive use of force; - 17% require force to be proportional to threat; - 12% mention bias

“Implicit and explicit bias in policing are important problems that need to be addressed. … However, the contemporary focus on implicit and explicit biases obscures another significant contributor to police violence: legal doctrine."

“The contemporary constitutional law framework for police violence [‘framing it as a series of…individual disputes’] is part of the web of law … that enables police violence to remain an ingrained … form of structural harm that communities of color are subjected to."