Jun
02
2018
June 02, 2018
March 17, 2018
A federal court has blocked nearly all of the Los Angeles Police Department's gang injunctions because of concerns that they have violated due process rights. George Tita, professor of criminology, law and society, says the LAPD's gang injunctions worked when cops were stopping drug deals on the streets or drive-by shootings.
Those injunctions "were probably more effective because in a sense you were picking the low hanging fruit," Tita told KPCC.
But he doubts the injuctions themselves led to more cases of police abusing authority.
"I think there are enough instances where police have trodded upon civil liberties -- I don't think they need the injunction as an excuse to do that," Tita said.