Product Description: At approximately noon on Saturday, August 9, 2014, Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department (“FPD”) shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old. The Criminal Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Missouri, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) (collectively, “The Department”) subsequently opened a criminal investigation into whether the shooting violated federal law...read more

Product Description: The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice opened its investigation of the Ferguson Police Department ("FPD") on September 4, 2014. This investigation has revealed a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department that violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law...read more

Product Description: Section 7602 of the Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.)(26 U.S.C.) authorizes the IRS to “examine any books, paper, records or other data” that maybe relevant to determine or collect the amount of tax, penalties, and interest owed to the Government by any taxpayer...read more

Product Description: Human trafficking, also known as trafficking in persons or modern day slavery, is an affront to the most basic of human freedoms. To combat this unspeakable crime and protect its victims, we build on more than a decade of progress in developing services and support networks that provide survivors of human trafficking with a path to freedom, independence, and self-sufficiency...read more

Product Description: Several OJP initiatives, including many fellowships and some training and technical assistance initiatives, cover a broad range of criminal and juvenile justice issues. While many initiatives that cross-cut more than one topical issue are found throughout the Program Plan, this section includes those that touch many areas and may have no single area of emphasis...read more

Product Description: (a) Design and construction. (1) Each facility or part of a facility constructed by, on behalf of, or for the use of a public entity shall be designed and constructed in such manner that the facility or part of the facility is readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, if the construction was commenced after January 26, 1992...read more

Product Description: The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks prompted the Department of Justice (Department) to redefine its mission, objectives, and priorities to focus its top priority on counterterrorism. As a result, the Attorney General elevated counterterrorism to the Department’s first strategic goal and shifted the Department’s resources to eliminating terrorist networks, preventing terrorist operations, and prosecuting perpetrators of terrorist acts...read more

Product Description: Why would a student bring a weapon to school and without any explicable reason open fire on fellow students and teachers? Are school shooters angry? Are they crazy? Is their motive revenge? Hatred for the victims? A hunger for attention? The origins of human violence are complex...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1930 by the Bureau of Prohibition of the U. S. Department of Justice, the object of this book was "to present certain facts and conclusions bearing directly upon the value to the individual, the community, and the Nation of the observance of some of our statute laws, that, by their very nature, restrict personal liberty...read more