One in three police homicides could have been avoided without endangering police or the public, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Eight percent of all homicides of adult men in the United States are committed …
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-02-wide-variation-police-unnecessary-deaths.html
Month: July 2024
Researcher finds police killings can discourage engagement with local government
Following police killings, residents of the surrounding community are less likely to engage with their local government, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst researcher.
— Read on phys.org/news/2024-07-police-discourage-engagement-local.html
All of the Above: Prosecutors alone won’t end mass incarceration. But their interventions can mean the world to people staring down the many harms of criminalization.
I’m grateful to the five contributors who graciously wrote such thoughtful responses to the short essay by James Forman, Jr., Maria Hawilo, and me, adapted from our forthcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration. I’m encouraged that people with such depth of experience agree that taking apart our system of mass incarceration requires grappling with the question of progressive prosecutors, though we may disagree about exactly what that will mean about their role in the long term.
— Read on inquest.org/all-of-the-above/
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson – SCOTUSblog
Question
Does a city’s enforcement of public camping against involuntarily homeless people violate the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment?
City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson – SCOTUSblog
— Read on www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/city-of-grants-pass-oregon-v-johnson/
See the decision here:
Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties – SCOTUSblog
Justices uphold laws targeting homelessness with criminal penalties – SCOTUSblog
— Read on www.scotusblog.com/2024/06/justices-uphold-laws-targeting-homelessness-with-criminal-penalties/