Cementing Criminal Justice Reform
Publications
Protests and riots have erupted in Minnesota and across the country since George Floyd’s death. The officer who killed Floyd has been fired and charged, but protesters demand institutional changes….
From R Street Institute:
As the number one incarcerator in the world, the United States held just under 1.5 million people in state and federal prisons at the end of 2018. Given that most…
From Times Colonist:
“I’ve never seen anything like it before, and I hope I never see anything like it again,” said Arthur Rizer, a former police officer, U.S. Army officer and self-described…
From The Missouri Times:
Leadership from the following groups signed onto the veto letter: AFP-MO; American Civil Liberties Union of MO; Center for Women in Transition; Clair-Fox Family…
From National Post:
The “militarization” of urban police forces across the U.S., as well as in major Canadian cities, is a symptom of a decades-long arms race between criminals and the cops…
From Route Fifty:
The militarization of the police, according to the center-right R Street Institute, has been driven for decades by “the largely unsupported belief that American streets…
From USA Today:
The swift action by local officials suggests there might not be a need for a broader, federal investigation of the police department, said Arthur Rizer, a former Justice Department…
How do we reopen our doors without simply inviting the coronavirus in alongside the business? This critical, perplexing question finds newfound urgency as the toll of lockdowns mounts and states…
From The Atlantic:
The state of Minnesota’s “urban warfare” rhetoric is the inevitable consequence of this decades-long militarization of American police departments, Arthur Rizer, a policing…
My name is Arthur Rizer. I am an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School, and the Director of Criminal Justice Policy and Civil Liberties for the R Street…