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From California Policy Center:
Some states are finally getting serious about addressing police misconduct
After another tragic week, Atlanta can no longer ignore the increasing crime that has unfortunately become the norm. According to a recent Atlanta Police Department report, year to date, murders…
REVIEW OF: Melissa Davoust et al., “Examining the implementation of police-assisted referral programs for substance use disorder services in Massachusetts,” International Journal of Drug Policy…
The proposed ban won’t improve health outcomes, but will bring more people under government coercion.
After more than a decade of reports, conferences, petitions, proposals and protests,…
The nation has finally learned what it takes to remove a bad officer from a police force and provide some modicum of justice in a police-abuse case. We need only capture on video an officer slowly…
From reason:
“Unfortunately, state reforms aren’t enough because police agencies have concocted a clever workaround,” Steven Greenhut pointed out earlier this month in Reason. “They take…
On Tuesday, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd. As President Joe Biden said, this verdict is a step forward. It symbolizes a…
Did you know that one in 72 adults in the United States are on probation?
Probation and parole were supposed to fix our nation’s over-reliance on incarceration, but after nearly four decades and…
From Times Colonist:
It will be important to focus not on the cases that make the news, but on the lesser-known and far more frequent interactions that don’t, said former Baltimore public defender…
During the seemingly endless run up to the last election, my partisan friends would often say to me, “politics is binary.” Their point is that voters only have two serious choices in any…