Experts Say Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification Errors Are Widespread and Contribute to Thousands of Wrongful Convictions
by Derek Gilna
In a time where much of the American criminal justice system is justifiably under intense pressure to eliminate potential racial bias, there is at least one issue that could be resolved without ...
The uprisings of 2020 might have finally cracked their invulnerability.
by Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones
As the year 1990 came to an end, a fight broke out during a New Year’s Eve celebration at the Juke Box Saturday Night bar in downtown Minneapolis. A 21-year-old white student grabbed Michael Sauro ...
by Jean Trounstine, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, September 15, 2020
Jonathan Best had been out of prison for two years when he ended a rocky relationship with his girlfriend. Like many men and women on parole—a form of early release, in which the remainder of one’s sentence is ...
by Douglas Ankney
This article examines how police unions have used their contracts or Collective Bargaining Agreements (“CBA”) and lobbied for special legislation known as the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights (“LEOBR”) to create a system of special protections for police officers that are tantamount to an alternate, internal ...
by David M. Kennedy, Niskanen Center (niskanencenter.org)
Executive Summary: I work with cops, and I support this movement.
Police Violence Is State Violence
Let’s be clear about what’s been happening in the country these last few weeks. Policing is an arm of the state. Police departments and police ...