Deborah Ramirez

Op-ed by Deborah Ramirez, the co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law.

“For me,” wrote Professor Deborah Ramirez, of the Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race, “the heroine in this tragedy is RowVaughn Wells, Tyre Nichols’ mom.

How can police departments stop officers from unjustly killing civilians? That’s the question law professor Deborah Ramirez at Northeastern University in Boston has been working on for years.

Deborah Ramirez is a professor at Northeastern University School of Law. 

Deborah Ramirez, a law professor at Northeastern University, said it has been a central part of police reform discussions and especially so since the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Critics say it can give police officers free rein to use excessive force without being held accountable.

One option for Janey, said Deborah Ramirez, a law professor at Northeastern University: The acting mayor could declare the city will no longer pay 100 percent of legal costs, judgments, and settlements associated with civil suits alleging on-the-job police misconduct and require officers to have professional liability insurance.

Also joining the conversation is Deborah Ramirez, a law professor at Northeastern University School of Law and chair of the school’s Criminal Justice Task Force.

The defense counsel may not be aware of the racial overtones in his arguments, but his words paint Williams as someone whose anger overpowered and colored his perception of the event, according to Deborah A. Ramirez, professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law.

Prymus Insurance in Texas asked Deborah Ramirez, a law professor and police-accountability expert at Northeastern University’s law school in Massachusetts, to analyze how much personal liability insurance should cost for cops in Colorado. Her law students are building a database of payouts for police cases based on records from the state’s five biggest cities.

Deborah Ramirez, a professor of law at Northeastern University, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition to explain qualified immunity and how it has evolved.