{"id":20529,"date":"2016-01-26T23:05:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T04:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2016-01-27T08:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T13:07:18","slug":"abaj-databases-of-police-activity-offer-a-handy-tool-for-defense-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20529","title":{"rendered":"ABAJ: Databases of police activity offer a handy tool for defense lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/magazine\/article\/databases_create_access_to_police_misconduct_cases_and_offer_a_handy_tool_f\/?utm_source=maestro&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=tech_monthly\">Databases of police activity offer a handy tool for defense lawyers<\/a> by Jason Tashea (Feb. 1, 2016):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vidya Pappachan, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, had little time to prepare for a client&#8217;s arraignment on a felony drug charge. But she had a tool at her disposal that allowed her to quickly look up information about the arresting officers.<\/p>\n<p>Pappachan asked her paralegal to search for the officers\u2019 names through a database called the Cop Accountability Project. The search proved fruitful. She learned the officers were named in misconduct cases that alleged, among other complaints, false arrests and cost New York City more than half a million dollars in settlement payouts.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABAJ: Databases of police activity offer a handy tool for defense lawyers by Jason Tashea (Feb. 1, 2016): Vidya Pappachan, an attorney for the Legal Aid Society in New York City, had little time to prepare for a client&#8217;s arraignment &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20529\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20530,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}