Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Kari Travis reports for Carolina Journal Online on the role of mandatory fees in driving up UNC students’ costs. The Daily Journal highlights the N.C. Supreme Court’s recent split about…
Traffic stop
Education
New Carolina Journal Online features
Barry Smith reports for Carolina Journal Online on a bill in the N.C. House that could help limit tension between police and motorists during traffic stops. John Trump’s Daily Journal…
Law & Public Safety
New Carolina Journal Online features
Michael Lowrey reports for Carolina Journal Online on an Appeals Court ruling limiting the amount of time a law enforcement officer can detain a motorist for a traffic stop. Roy…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Unsettled Questions About The Duration of Traffic Stops
In a recent post at the UNC School of Government’s criminal law blog, Jeff Welty discussed the uncertainties created by last year’s Supreme Court decision in Rodriguez v. United States.…
Liberty
Rep. Brockman’s traffic stop
Charlotte’s WBTV obtained dash cam video Rep. Cecil Brockman, D-Guilford, being pulled over and questioned by state troopers in Archdale: The stop begins with Allred trying to pull Brockman over…
Liberty
Queen of Self-Righteous Indignation tackles Mock Indignation
For starters, yet another N&R letter to the editor criticizing Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott’s reactionary decision to suspend traffic stops for minor violations. More than a few readers have…
Liberty
Gboro community policing II
in a Sunday front-pager, N&R rehashes NYT numbers on racial disparities in Gboro police traffic stops and does a little research on its own. Straight to the money pull quote…
Liberty
Gboro ‘community policing’ at work….
Surely by now you’ve read that Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott has announced officers will no longer initiate traffic stops “for minor infractions such as broken headlights or tail lights,…
Liberty
Another view on Gboro traffic stops
I’ve taken note of retired UNCG professor Tom Kirby-Smith’s views on the N&R ed page and on social media for quite some time —-let’s just say I wouldn’t regard him…
Liberty
More on Gboro DWB traffic stops
NPR interviews the NYT reporter who wrote the big Sunday front pager on the “disproportionate risks of driving while black.”
Liberty
NYT analyzes Gboro traffic stops
Big NYT story analyzing police traffic stops in Greensboro. The Times’ conclusion? You guessed it—“wide racial differences in measure after measure of police conduct.” The Times analyzed tens of thousands…
Liberty
Court: Cops Cannot Extend Traffic Stops Indefinitely
Got a new story out for Carolina Journal on a recent N.C. Court of Appeals ruling limiting the police’s the circumstances under which the police can call in a drug…