We now live in a time of cancellations and closings. Most seriously, our public schools are now closed, no longer serving the 1.1 million city children who usually attend. Also shuttered are some of our principal entertainments and iconic distractions. Bars and restaurants, for instance, cannot serve sitting customers, only make deliveries.
— Read on www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-justice-in-the-time-of-coronavirus-20200316-ovskg6k3abfwrgqjjwnhyeuygq-story.html
Tag: Criminal Justice System
The Real Reason People Want to Oust Prosecutor Kim Foxx Has Nothing to Do With Jussie Smollett – Mother Jones
The Real Reason People Want to Oust Prosecutor Kim Foxx Has Nothing to Do With Jussie Smollett – Mother Jones
— Read on www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/03/jussie-smollett-kim-foxx-prosecutors-kim-gardner-aramis-ayala-lawsuit-racism/
Homelessness
Policing homelessness | Modern Policing
This guide from Arnold Ventures summarizes evidence about homelessness and provides recommendations for police. Suggestions include fostering collaboration, using data, providing training, and using a problem-oriented approach. The document offers examples from Philadelphia and Wichita, explains the negative consequences of punitive measures, and lists talking points for police to use with the public.
— Read on gcordner.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/policing-homelessness/
Going Back to Jail Without Committing a Crime
In our newest quarterly report, we demonstrate the complexity of the recidivism construct by examining the circumstances of re-arrest for 5-Key Model study participants who had not engaged in crime.
ijrd.csw.fsu.edu/sites/g/files/upcbnu1766/files/media/images/publication_pdfs/Going_Back_to_Jail.pdf
Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful – Human Impact Partners
Juvenile InJustice: Charging Youth as Adults is Ineffective, Biased, and Harmful
— Read on humanimpact.org/hipprojects/juvenile-injustice-charging-youth-as-adults-is-ineffective-biased-and-harmful/
LAPD still all-in on data-driven policing after scrapping controversial LASER program — CBSN Originals documentary “Racial Profiling 2.0” – CBS News
Los Angeles police are convinced big data can help fight crime, even after shutting down a program that activists said targeted minorities unfairly.
— Read on www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-police-department-laser-data-driven-policing-racial-profiling-2-0-cbsn-originals-documentary/
Ending the War on Drugs in Travis County, Texas How Low-Level Drug Possession Arrests are Harmful and Ineffective
There is widespread understanding that the War on Drugs intentionally targeted communities of color,
while depriving those same communities of harm-reduction resources to address the damaging effects of drug use. Nonetheless, Austin and Travis County,Texas, continue to use drug enforcement practices that harm communities, worsen racial disparities, and increase the health and financial consequences that people most directly impacted must bear. Further, local use of police as the primary means of enforcing harsh drug laws consistently fails to achieve its stated goal of reducing drug activity. Travis County residents, particularly in areas most heavily populated by people of color, have seen time and again that current practices are not working.
Remembering the Life and Work of Mark Kleiman – YouTube
Remembering the Life and Work of Mark Kleiman – YouTube
— Read on www.youtube.com/embed/TyjagoXYw2M
Stop-and-Frisk in the de Blasio Era (2019) | New York Civil Liberties Union
The New York City Police Department’s aggressive stop-and-frisk program exploded into a national controversy during the mayoral administration of Michael Bloomberg, as the number of NYPD stops each year grew to hundreds of thousands. Most of the people stopped were black and Latino, and nearly all were innocent. Stop-and-frisk peaked in 2011, when NYPD officers reported making
— Read on www.nyclu.org/en/publications/stop-and-frisk-de-blasio-era-2019
