Cook on Police Culture

Julian A. Cook (University of Georgia Law School) has posted Police Culture in the Twenty-First Century: A Critique of the President’s Task Force’s Final Report (91 Notre Dame Law Review Online 105 (2016)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

In May 2015, the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, established by President Barack Obama to address problems associated with aggressive policing, issued its Final Report which details a comprehensive set of recommendations. This essay examines an important theme of the Final Report -- the reforming of police culture -- and concludes that the report's well-intentioned recommendations are destined to fail absent meaningful revitalization of the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule and the establishment of a robust standing doctrine.