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De-escalation training is more likely to improve police-civilian interactions when it’s perceived by cops as a way to keep them safe on the job, according to an Arizona State University (ASU) study.
With COVID-19 forcing many courthouses to pause or limit in-person sessions, they became a breeding ground for innovation and a new focus on digital equity. Will it lead to permanent change?
Two bills under consideration by Virginia legislators this week added more fuel to a national debate over whether the expanded use of armed police as school resource officers criminalizes student behavior.
Since December 2020, an average 90 train containers containing guns have been burglarized daily in Los Angeles railyards. Few of the firearms have been recovered.
Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with two of the three white men set to stand trial for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery on federal hate-crime charges. Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, accused federal prosecutors of going behind her back.
Critics say bills introduced by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis represent an effort to turn the state into a “conservative fiefdom of authoritarianism.” The bills include outlawing discussions of sexuality and gender, as well as attempts to dismantle abortion protection and COVID-19 safety actions.
The coalition warned that these women faced the “double disadvantage” of gender inequality and racism when they encountered the criminal justice system, which prevented them from getting the support they needed and left them at risk of reoffending.
Rulings to exclude evidence, which normally benefit survivors of sexual assault or murder victims, are now being used to shield industrial meat giants from a full and total accounting of their crimes because evidence of animal abuse is not allowed to be depicted.
Jennifer Neville-Lake, whose three children were killed by a drunk driver, is pushing the Canadian Parliament to strengthen victims’ rights, arguing that the current criminal justice system does little to help victims of crime.
Bridgeport, CT detectives Angel Llanos and Kevin Cronin have been put on administrative leave following charges they mishandled death investigations of Lauren Smith-Fields and Brenda Lee Rawls. Many charge that the case is an example of the lack of attention paid by law enforcement to missing people of color.
Cyprus’ highest court has quashed the conviction of a British woman found guilty by a lower court of faking a claim that she was gang-raped when she was 19 by a group of Israeli youths in 2019 at the island resort of Ayia Napa.
Ethan Crumbley, 15, who is charged as an adult with murder and other crimes for killing four students at a Michigan high school and wounding six other students and a teacher, will pursue an insanity defense as he, his parents and school officials faced a new lawsuit over the attack at Oxford High School
The Supreme Court has overturned lower court rulings that blocked the execution of Matthew Reeves, granting Alabama’s request to lift the injunction and clearing the way to execute Reeves by lethal injection.
Judicial bypass, a legal proceeding that enables minors to obtain waivers that allow them to end their pregnancies without notifying their parents,, epends largely on the judge’s discretion and disposition, according to a Washington Post investigation.
At least seven people in the Rehabilitative Alternative Probation program (RAP), a specialized drug court, have died of overdoses during the coronavirus pandemic, almost half the participants in a class fail, and about 90 people have graduated since 2018.
Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.