Policing
Publications
WASHINGTON (March 25, 2020) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this year banning flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes and flavored e-cigarettes and vapes,…
Plenty of alternative policies exist, but ‘…An outright ban of menthol cigarettes combined with a ban on flavored vape products, particularly menthol or mint flavors, would be the most harmful…
…even the most well-intentioned police officers may cause more harm than good by unnecessarily introducing youth to the justice system, interacting with youth in a manner that leads to a negative…
WASHINGTON (March 9, 2020) – Two weeks ago, a video went viral of an Orlando police officer arresting a six-year-old at her school, with the little girl crying for a second chance. The incident has…
From National Conference of State Legislatures:
Additional resources of police-mental health collaborations:
R Street: Statewide Policies Relating to Pre-Arrest Diversion and Crisis Response
November 15, 2019
Memorandum to the Public and BPD Members
RE: Draft Policy 1207, Youth Interrogations
https://www.powerdms.com/public/BALTIMOREMD/documents/629464
The Baltimore Police…
The crises playing out daily in streets across the country are diverse, yet the people responding to them tend to be the same. Whether an incident involves a person committing a crime, suffering a…
Since the Trump administration has implemented its extraordinarily strict immigration policies, stories of officials ripping children from their mother’s arms have abounded. These kinds of…
Law and order, or criminal justice reform?
To hear Attorney General William Barr and others hostile to recent reforms tell it, the two are incompatible. In their eyes, “tolerance” is a dirty…
From Forbes:
Several of the coalition’s members, including the Fines and Fees Justice Center, the Institute for Justice, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, joined with the Cato Institute and R…
