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In a multi-year study involving six countries in the southern hemisphere, researchers found that community policing did not increase local trust in law enforcement, nor did it reduce crime.
If we want a safer criminal justice system, the habit of reducing “accountability” to punishment of individual bad actors will turn out to be a crippling mistake, writes TCR’s legal affairs columnist.
“We are never going to arrest our way out of this crisis,” Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a press conference last week announcing the diversion program. Now, trained unarmed professionals will respond to nonviolent issues related to homelessness.
Young people are all too often left out of discussions about policing practices, the law, and the relationship between their communities and law enforcement. Here’s an opportunity to listen to them.
The small number of individuals involved in shootings within any given community are connected by a web of social relationships in which violence follows the same predictable pathways as any pathogen, suggests Chicago criminologist Andrew Papachristos. In the latest installment of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation “Crossroads” interviews, he explains how that research finding can inform efforts to reduce gun violence.
When Baltimore City and Prince George’s County recently released their lists of police officers who would no longer be called to testify in court, it raised more than a few eyebrows. But the real issue is that far too few prosecutors track police misconduct at all, writes the deputy director of John Jay’s Institute for Innovation in Prosecution.
Prosecutors have dropped charges against a former St. Louis County police officer who shot a Black woman in 2019 after the survivor requested a restorative justice mediation that focuses on repairing the harm caused by the offender.
It’s been over four decades since President Ronald Reagan called for respect for the men and women who work in the nation’s prison systems. We still haven’t backed that up with the investment it requires, says a justice reform advocate.
For the first time, New York City has a complete picture of its pretrial population, thanks to the latest data visualization and database tool created by the city’s Criminal Justice Agency and Luminosity, Inc. The Pretrial Release Dashboard brings in “key facts” that many say have been missing from the bail reform debate.
North Carolina has been increasingly criticized for failing to provide medical care and attention to the inmate population on Death Row — of whom 90 percent are over the age of 50, which the state defines as elderly. It’s not the only state addressing the problem of aging incarcerees.