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Crime and Justice News
Apr 21, 20222 min read
National Drug Control Strategy Emphasizes Expanding Treatment
The Biden administration sent its National Drug Control Strategy to Congress amid a record level of drug overdoses. The Centers for...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 20, 20222 min read
Gun Control Advocates Frustrated By Their Failures in Policymaking
Democrats have spent years pledging to address the gun violence that plagues communities across the U.S. A surge of mass shootings over...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 19, 20222 min read
What Media Focus on Rap Sheets Says About Justice System Failure
After six people were shot and killed outside a bar in Sacramento this month, journalists and commentators delved into the histories of...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20222 min read
Public Transit Crime Rises As Overall Ridership Declines
Days after a gunman opened fire in a New York subway train, shooting 10, city officials are scrambling for new ways to protect riders....
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 15, 20222 min read
Dangerous No-Knock Raids Turn Into 'Perfunctory Bureaucracy'
Judges and magistrates are expected to review requests for no-knock warrants — an intrusive and dangerous tactic used by police — to...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 14, 20222 min read
Can Second Step Act Survive Crime Rise, GOP Messaging?
The Senate delivered President Trump a bipartisan criminal justice reform deal shortly after the last midterm elections. Staging a sequel...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20222 min read
Wary NYC Commuters Return to Subway After 10 People Are Shot
Millions of New Yorkers returned to commutes on Wednesday in a city gripped with unease as a gunman remained at large after shooting 10...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 12, 20222 min read
High Vacancy Rates At Prosecutors' Offices Across The Nation
District attorneys’ offices across the U.S. are struggling to recruit and retain lawyers, with some having vacancy rates of up to 16...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 11, 20221 min read
Biden Issues 'Ghost Gun' Curbs, Names Dettelbach to Head ATF
The White House unveiled new measures aimed at curbing an increase in gun violence and announced the nomination of Steve Dettelbach,...
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Jill Mceldowney
Apr 8, 20222 min read
Will Justice Jackson Help Shape More Progressive Criminal Justice?
With her confirmation by the Senate, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be the first United States Supreme Court justice who previously...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 7, 20221 min read
Where Are U.S. COVID Relief Funds Going? In CA, Police Get Large Sums
Big cities in California spent large portions of their federal COVID-19 relief money on police departments, a review of public records...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 6, 20222 min read
Experts: Place-Based Strategies Are Effective, Central to Police Reform
By Cynthia Lum, Christopher Koper, David Weisburd, Robin Engel, John Eck, Anthony Braga, John MacDonald, Rod Brunson, and Michael Smith A...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 5, 20222 min read
Challenge For Cities: Reduce Police Role With Homeless in Subways
Days before New York City Mayor Eric Adams issued a plan in February to deal with homeless people sheltering on the subway, three police...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 4, 20222 min read
NY Prosecutors Leaving Amid Tougher Laws, Low Salaries
New York City prosecutors are leaving in droves, citing pandemic burnout, low salaries and two laws that fundamentally changed the nature...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Under Two-Thirds of Police Agencies Reporting Crime Data to FBI
The national murder total has soared since the beginning of the pandemic, but thousands of police agencies have stopped reporting crime...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 31, 20222 min read
Do GOP Attacks on Jackson Signal Retreat On Justice Reform?
During Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, Republicans reiterated attack lines they’ve been using on Democrats when it...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 30, 20223 min read
Police Killings Continue At High Rate, Raising Doubts About Reforms
Photo: Aaron Nesheim for The New York Times Police officers continue to kill people at an alarming rate, finds a data analysis that has...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 29, 20222 min read
How Eliminating Police Led To A Significant Crime Increase In Seattle
PHOTO CREDIT: KUOW PHOTO/MEGAN FARMER Eliminating police forces, the most extreme form of the police defunding movement, may...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 28, 20221 min read
$32 Billion For Crime-Fighting Included In Biden 2023 Budget
President Biden will propose $32 billion in new spending to fight crime, putting a price tag on his State of the Union call to fund...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 25, 20222 min read
Critics Protest Federal Anti-COVID Spending on Police, Prisons
Veronica Johnson of the Alabama Justice Initiative has been fighting against a proposal to build three new prisons in the state. She has...
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