Rory Fleming

The Ex-DA Using Manhattan Institute Platform to Attack Reform Prosectors

The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is a big deal in US public safety debates. Cofounded by Reagan CIA Director…

February 10, 2022

CA Bill to Decriminalize “Loitering” Spotlights Cops-Turned-Politicians

A 2019 explainer from CalMatters on the difficulties of police reform in Sacramento explained that “at least four legislators are…

February 7, 2022

What’s Motivating the DA Charging a Minor With Drug-Induced Homicide?

After taking office in 2011, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen helped lead his jurisdiction to prosecute 177 minors…

January 31, 2022

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Rapidly Backpedals on Radical Reforms

Alvin Bragg, a former state and federal prosecutor, won the competitive 2021 Manhattan district attorney race by running as something…

January 24, 2022

Baltimore and Boston’s Non-Prosecution Policies Now at Grave Risk

Two of the most significant figures in the so-called “progressive prosecutor” movement now seem to be off the table as…

January 18, 2022

As Anti-Reform Prosecutors Depart, Will Massachusetts Really Change?

The landscape of the criminal-legal system in one of the nation’s most progressive states is changing. Two of 11 elected…

January 11, 2022

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Issues Far-Reaching Decarceration Plan

On the campaign trail for Manhattan district attorney in 2021, Alvin Bragg was seen by many observers as unlikely to…

January 5, 2022

The Lack of Prosecutor Accountability Behind Trucker’s 110-Year Sentence

By now, much of the world has heard of Kayla Wildeman, the deputy prosecutor in Golden, Colorado who boasted on…

December 23, 2021

SF Mayor London Breed Plans More Drug Arrests to “Take Back Our Tenderloin”

Declaring that “We need to take back our Tenderloin,” a hip, mixed-income neighborhood in San Francisco with a large unhoused…

December 20, 2021

New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections

Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district attorney elections, seeing these once-sleepy affairs…

December 15, 2021