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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 28, 2016
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Commentary: Where Is the Justice in Baltimore?

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only of ...

Two Baltimore Police officers have now been acquitted in the death of Freddie Gray, including the only officer charged with murder, and the question has shifted as to what prosecutor Marilyn Mosby sho ...

June 28, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

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|Date: January 23, 2016
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ACLU response to Governor Brown’s State of the State

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a criti ...

By Natasha Minsker In his State of the State speech yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown failed to mention a critical dimension to economic inequality in California: racial inequality. People of color are uniq ...

January 23, 2016
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 29, 2015
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Final Crime Stats Show Crime Down, But Murder Rates Up in Major Cities

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue t ...

The Brennan Center For Justice released an update to their November analysis on crime, where they argue that “reports of rising crime nationwide are overblown and not supported by the available data.” ...

December 29, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Data Keeps Pointing Away From Crime Wave

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 28, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts II: Data Keeps Pointing Away From Crime Wave

In October, FBI Director James Comey caught the Administration and Justice Department off guard when he s ...

In October, FBI Director James Comey caught the Administration and Justice Department off guard when he said that “additional scrutiny and criticism of police officers in the wake of highly publicized ...

December 28, 2015
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Does the Hung Jury in Baltimore Case Indict the Whole System?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2015
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Does the Hung Jury in Baltimore Case Indict the Whole System?

Police defenders will undoubtedly say "I told you so," in arguing that the prosecutor overreached in char ...

Police defenders will undoubtedly say "I told you so," in arguing that the prosecutor overreached in charging the officers with manslaughter, but the hung jury this week in the Freddie Gray case may n ...

December 20, 2015
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AG Implements Law Enforcement Training on Implicit Bias & Procedural Justice

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|Date: November 18, 2015
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AG Implements Law Enforcement Training on Implicit Bias & Procedural Justice

(From AG Press Release) - In the wake of recent events in California and across the nation that highlight ...

(From AG Press Release) - In the wake of recent events in California and across the nation that highlight the need for building trust between law enforcement and the communities they are sworn to serv ...

November 18, 2015
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DOJ Report on Ferguson Faults Police Tactics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 04, 2015
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DOJ Report on Ferguson Faults Police Tactics

A report being released by the US Department of Justice is casting blame on law enforcement officials, re ...

A report being released by the US Department of Justice is casting blame on law enforcement officials, responding to demonstrations in Ferguson following the death of Michael Brown last August, for us ...

September 04, 2015
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Broken-Window Theory Put in Question

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2015
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Broken-Window Theory Put in Question

by Bernard E. Harcourt In an effort to rehabilitate the broken-windows theory, George Kelling recently di ...

by Bernard E. Harcourt In an effort to rehabilitate the broken-windows theory, George Kelling recently distanced himself from the tragic deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and others, chalking them ...

August 19, 2015
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Analysis Finds Little Evidence to Support a “Ferguson Effect” on Crime

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|Date: June 16, 2015
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Analysis Finds Little Evidence to Support a “Ferguson Effect” on Crime

The Sentencing Project put out a new analysis this morning finding little support for a so-called “Fergus ...

The Sentencing Project put out a new analysis this morning finding little support for a so-called “Ferguson effect” on crime in St. Louis, Missouri. The “Ferguson effect” describes a conjecture by som ...

June 16, 2015
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Minneapolis a Case Study For Policing in America

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|Date: May 31, 2015
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Minneapolis a Case Study For Policing in America

By Emma Andersson Being Black in America today is rough. Turns out being Black and living in Minneapolis, ...

By Emma Andersson Being Black in America today is rough. Turns out being Black and living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, doesn't make it any easier. Often appearing on "Top 10 Best Places to Live" lists, ...

May 31, 2015
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