Force Science News

Force Science News #64
January 26, 2007

In this issue:

I. NEW, FREE ON-LINE LAW JOURNAL FOR POLICE, CORRECTIONS
II.FROM OUR EMAIL IN-BOX
III. CELL PHONES & ACCIDENTS: NEW STUDY GETS UNDERWAY
IV. LOOKING FOR A CAREER CHANGE?

I. NEW, FREE ON-LINE LAW JOURNAL FOR POLICE, CORRECTIONS

You can now browse and click your way free of charge to a
valuable new resource on legal issues for LE, thanks to
Americans for Effective Law Enforcement. AELE, the nation’s
foremost provider of information about court decisions and
legal interpretations pertaining to policing and
corrections, has just launched an on-line Monthly Law
Journal on its website at http://www.aele.org/law/index.html

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Force Science News #63
January 17, 2007

L.A. OFFICER WINS 2-YEAR BATTLE TO CLEAR HIS NAME
IN CONTROVERSIAL SHOOTING OF 13-YEAR-OLD DRIVER

To the outrage of community activists and some politicians, a Los Angeles officer who is the central figure in a nationally spotlighted police shooting has been exonerated of wrongdoing, with the help of findings from the Force Science Research Center.

LAPD Officer II Steven Garcia, accused of using excessive force in killing a 13-year-old African-American boy who was accelerating a stolen car toward him, had earlier been found “out of policy” in the shooting by the city’s Police Commission, a politically appointed civilian oversight body.

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