Over the past five years, five more states have passed drug-induced homicide (DIH) statutes, reflecting the country’s ever-increasing investment in…
Once upon a time, Milwaukee elected Frank Zeidler, the last socialist mayor of a major American city. His last term…
A population that perceives itself at the top of the pile soon becomes fearful, runs one theory, because the only…
Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit has just implemented its first-ever Adult Civil Citation program—a 90-day pilot that will divert people detained…
In 2016, Barbara LaWall, then the elected prosecutor of Pima County (Tucson), published an op-ed in the Arizona Daily Star…
Black residents are greatly overrepresented in arrests and court cases in the city of Baltimore, details a report by researchers…
Tulsa Police Chief Wendell Franklin did not want to release the dashcam video of two officers getting shot by David…
Following the 2018 passage of AB 2942, California’s first-in-the-nation “prosecutor-initiated resentencing” law, Hillary Blout started the Oakland-based nonprofit For The…
Juries in the United States are not just 12 people selected at random. Instead, both the prosecution and the defense…
A kid dying of an opioid-involved overdose is a tragedy. Thankfully, it is comparatively rare, if increasing, according to an…