All about Policing with a sprinkle of Criminal Justice – written by a Secret Contrarian
Colorado, Iowa, New York and now Connecticut are the only states that have successfully passed legislation aimed at attacking systemic police racism through improved police oversight and accountability
• Chart: Which States Have Acted on Police Reform | Statista
— Read on https:www.statista.com/chart/amp/22172/legislation-on-police-reform-by-state/
To Prosecute is a collection of approximately 20 interviews with senior prosecutors from around the U.S., each of whom have led their offices to rethink early decision-making and diversion practices.
— Read on www.lagratta.com/to-prosecute-book
Interesting resource on how to change the law to initiate police reform.
Since 1980, the nation’s community supervision population has ballooned by almost 240 percent. As of 2016, 1 in 55 U.S. adults (nearly 4.5 million people) are on probation or parole, more than twice the number incarcerated in state and federal prisons and local jails. Historically, probation and parole were intended to provide a less punitive, more constructive alternative to incarceration, but a growing body of evidence suggests that a frequent emphasis on surveillance and monitoring of people under supervision rather than on promoting their success, along with the resource demands of ever-larger caseloads, has transformed community supervision into a primary driver of incarceration. This shift has produced an array of troubling consequences, not only for individuals on probation and parole but for taxpayers and communities as well.
See report HERE
We’re Police! We’re not trained to handle this kind of violence! | Power Line
— Read on www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/were-police-were-not-trained-to-handle-this-kind-of-violence.php
Kentucky was an early adopter of risk assessments in an effort to release more people without bail. But the algorithms are reproducing systemic inequities.
— Read on theintercept.com/2020/07/12/risk-assessment-tools-bail-reform/
Things are happening that we have never seen before, the president said. He added that the carnage in America’ most liberal cities makes even Afghanistan look tame by comparison.
— Read on www.policemag.com/564066/trump-holds-white-house-roundtable-meeting-with-police-supporters
The NYPD said Wednesday that 179 cops filed for retirement between June 29 and Monday, an astounding 411-percent increase over the 35 who filed during the same time period in 2019.
— Read on nypost.com/2020/07/08/nypd-limits-retirement-applications-amid-411-surge-this-week/
This is a collection of Police Misconduct from the Chicago Police Department. It has reports that are accessible and a dashboard where data can be filtered.
Citizens Police Data Project — Invisible Institute
— Read on invisible.institute/police-data
This is a watchdog of Chicago Police Department.
Invisible Institute
— Read on invisible.institute/
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