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New York City Faces Losing Control of Rikers Island as Jail Fails to Meet Improvement Benchmarks Agreed to in Consent Decree

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|Date: September 02, 2023
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New York City Faces Losing Control of Rikers Island as Jail Fails to Meet Improvement Benchmarks Agreed to in Consent Decree

By Julie McCaffrey NEW YORK CITY, NY - Rikers Island faced judicial scrutiny earlier this year when Judg ...

By Julie McCaffrey NEW YORK CITY, NY - Rikers Island faced judicial scrutiny earlier this year when Judge Laura Taylor Swain, of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, began the process of potentia ...

September 02, 2023
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Half of Police Force in Minnesota Town Quits, and Crime Rates Drop, Suggesting ‘Depolicing’ Might Be a Thing

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|Date: July 05, 2023
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Half of Police Force in Minnesota Town Quits, and Crime Rates Drop, Suggesting ‘Depolicing’ Might Be a Thing

By The Vanguard Staff GREEN VALLEY, MN – A New York Times opinion piece this week notes, “In a staggering ...

By The Vanguard Staff GREEN VALLEY, MN – A New York Times opinion piece this week notes, “In a staggering report last month, the Department of Justice documented pervasive abuse, illegal use of force, ...

July 05, 2023
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Criminalizing Fathers Who Can’t Pay Child Support Makes the Problem Worse

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 08, 2019
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Criminalizing Fathers Who Can’t Pay Child Support Makes the Problem Worse

“When you have two people applying for a job who are similarly situated, and one has a felony conviction ...

“When you have two people applying for a job who are similarly situated, and one has a felony conviction even if it’s just for child support, we’d be lying if we said that didn’t hurt people’s chances ...

January 08, 2019
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

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|Date: August 13, 2018
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St ...

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St. Louis County history, Wesley Bell, a criminal justice reform advocate, unseated Bob McCulloc ...

August 13, 2018
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Voters Hold Bob McCulloch Accountable in St. Louis County

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|Date: August 12, 2018
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Voters Hold Bob McCulloch Accountable in St. Louis County

By Brian Tashman and Sara Baker This week, voters in St. Louis County sent a clear message of support for ...

By Brian Tashman and Sara Baker This week, voters in St. Louis County sent a clear message of support for the creation of a smarter justice system. In the race for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorne ...

August 12, 2018
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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 09, 2018
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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed a ...

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed and, even when they are challenged, they almost always win reelection. But that conventional wi ...

August 09, 2018
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Justice Department Continues to Roll Back Civil Rights Protections

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|Date: November 21, 2017
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Justice Department Continues to Roll Back Civil Rights Protections

By Jesselyn McCurdy On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly hinted that he isn’t done trying t ...

By Jesselyn McCurdy On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly hinted that he isn’t done trying to roll back the civil rights gains made during the Obama administration. In a speech before the ...

November 21, 2017
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Police Militarization Endangers Public Safety

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|Date: September 03, 2017
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Police Militarization Endangers Public Safety

By Neill Franklin This week, the Trump administration revoked President Obama’s Executive Order 13688, wh ...

By Neill Franklin This week, the Trump administration revoked President Obama’s Executive Order 13688, which limited the scope of a federal program that allows state and local police departments to ob ...

September 03, 2017
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On Third Anniversary of Ferguson, President Supports Further Militarization of Police

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|Date: August 09, 2017
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On Third Anniversary of Ferguson, President Supports Further Militarization of Police

By Kanya Bennet Today (August 9) marks the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brow ...

By Kanya Bennet Today (August 9) marks the third anniversary of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It was this shooting that woke this country up to the epidemic of poli ...

August 09, 2017
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AG Sessions Seeking to End Police Reform Efforts; Local Officials Balk

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 05, 2017
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AG Sessions Seeking to End Police Reform Efforts; Local Officials Balk

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreement ...

On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered Justice Department officials to review reform agreements with various police agencies nationwide which were under scrutiny for various incidents. A va ...

April 05, 2017
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Commentary: Militarization of Police Is a Slippery Slope

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 21, 2017
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Commentary: Militarization of Police Is a Slippery Slope

There was an interesting discussion that emerged yesterday on the need for the Sheriff’s Office to have a ...

There was an interesting discussion that emerged yesterday on the need for the Sheriff’s Office to have an MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle). One poster noted the quick rise of AntiFa (s ...

February 21, 2017
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Justice Watch: Racial Disparities Are Driving Turmoil in the System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 07, 2016
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Justice Watch: Racial Disparities Are Driving Turmoil in the System

It is appropriate that after two years of renewed questions – following Ferguson - about the role of race ...

It is appropriate that after two years of renewed questions – following Ferguson - about the role of race in the criminal justice system, on the eve of one of the most polarized elections, we are fina ...

November 07, 2016
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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 28, 2016
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Commentary: Crime and Police Misconduct Are Separate Issues

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tr ...

It seems like in every discussion we have on police misconduct and officer-involved shootings, someone tries to turn the issue back to crime. They are not the same issues. New stats came out on Monda ...

September 28, 2016
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Davis Police Chief on Policing and Treatment of People of Color

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2016
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Davis Police Chief on Policing and Treatment of People of Color

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel spent over two hours presenting to the Yolo County ACLU last night at the ...

Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel spent over two hours presenting to the Yolo County ACLU last night at the Blanchard Room of the Davis Public Library. Much of that time he went over things like traini ...

August 19, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 09, 2016
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My View II: Dallas Illustrates the Need to Police Bad Cops

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people w ...

The biggest challenge that police agencies across the country face is the need to identify those people who shouldn’t be police officers and protect the public and their colleagues from those individu ...

July 09, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Final Analysis of 2015 Crime Rate Paints Complex Picture

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 21, 2016
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Final Analysis of 2015 Crime Rate Paints Complex Picture

While there are some signs that increases in 2015 murder rates are reversing themselves, the Brennan Cent ...

While there are some signs that increases in 2015 murder rates are reversing themselves, the Brennan Center yesterday published its final analysis of the 2015 crime rate. Analysts Ames Grawert and Jam ...

April 21, 2016
| by David Greenwald

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Calls For SF Chief to Resign In Wake of Fatal Shooting

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 11, 2015
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Calls For SF Chief to Resign In Wake of Fatal Shooting

Last week, Mario Woods, 26, was shot 15 times by police officers. This week, protesters, outraged over th ...

Last week, Mario Woods, 26, was shot 15 times by police officers. This week, protesters, outraged over the shooting, spilled out of a packed hearing room in San Francisco’s City Hall on Wednesday, cha ...

December 11, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Crime Analysis Finds Crime is Not Rising Across the Country

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 23, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Crime Analysis Finds Crime is Not Rising Across the Country

The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has conducted an analysis of 2015 crime trends in ...

The Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law has conducted an analysis of 2015 crime trends in the nation's 30 largest cities and concluded “that reports of rising crime across the country ...

November 23, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Study Shows Driving While Black Presents Disproportionate Risks

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 25, 2015
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Analysis: Study Shows Driving While Black Presents Disproportionate Risks

While there has been a lot of controversy about the increased focused on biased policing, one of the good ...

While there has been a lot of controversy about the increased focused on biased policing, one of the good results is we are starting to get real data on things that for years were only part of urban m ...

October 25, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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My View: New Yolo Courthouse Represents Our Ferguson?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 03, 2015
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My View: New Yolo Courthouse Represents Our Ferguson?

A little editorial blurb in the local paper regarding the dedication of the new Yolo County Courthouse pr ...

A little editorial blurb in the local paper regarding the dedication of the new Yolo County Courthouse prompts this provocative title, and perhaps somewhat less provocative commentary. The paper write ...

October 03, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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