Police and Legal System Reform
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Illinois Becomes First State
to Eliminate Cash Bail
The New York Time, Feb. 2021
The City Where Police Unleash
Dogs on Black Teens
The Marshall Project, Feb. 2021
Elijah McClain death: Aurora police didn’t have legal basis to stop, frisk or choke 23-year-old, investigation finds
The Denver Post, Feb. 2021
Joe Ligon was locked up at age 15. almost seven decades later, he's reentering an unfamiliar world.
The Washington Post, Feb. 2021
Durham's may give formerly incarcerated $500 per month in guaranteed income.
The News & Observer, Feb. 2021
States make it easier to clear
up criminal records
Axios, Feb. 2021
The Most Ambitious Effort Yet
to Reform Policing May Be Happening In Ithaca, New York
GQ, Feb. 2021
Texas Study Shows Diversion
Curbs Recidivism, Strengthens
Job Prospects
The Crime Report, Feb. 2021
The Carceral Force of Prosecutor Associations, Explained
The Appeal, Feb. 2021
Cops and Hippies
Not every call to the police
requires an armed response.
Reasons to be Cheerful, Feb. 2021
Poverty and Mass Incarceration in New York: An Agenda for Change
The Brennan Center Feb. 2021
Another World Is Possible
Harper's Magazine, Feb. 2021
California Bill that Promotes
Alternatives to Policing is Back
Despite Governor's Veto
The Appeal, Feb. 2021
From Prison to Programming
Columbia Magazine, Winter 20-21
Los Angeles D.A. George
Gascón Leaves California's
Powerful D.A. Association
The Appeal, Feb. 2021
Anissa Jordan Took Part
in a Robbery. She Went
to Prison for Murder.
The Atlantic, Feb. 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott prioritized changing how bail is set. He isn’t addressing people stuck behind bars because they can’t afford to pay.
The Texas Tribune, Feb. 2021
Denver STAR program that replaces police with mental & behavioral health counselors is working
Denverite, Feb. 2021
An alternative to 911: Atlanta
311 line now takes non-emergency mental health, drug calls
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feb. 2021
Civil Rights:
Reimagining Policing
American Bar Association, Jan. 2021
What Public Safety
without Police Looks Like
The Appeal, Jan. 2021
UCLA wins $3.65-million grant to build ‘Age of Mass Incarceration’ archive with LAPD records
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2021
Private Prisons Are an
Abomination Representing
All the Worst of American
Politics in the Last 40 Years
Esquire Jan. 2021
No Excuses: Biden Can Help End Racist Police Violence—From Day 1
The Nation, Jan. 2021
An old arrest can follow
you forever online. Some
newspapers want to fix that.
The Washington Post, Jan. 2021
How the San Antonio Police
Are Rethinking Mental Health
The Texas Observer, Jan. 2021
A Living Death: Life Without
Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
ACLU Report
Oregon Bill Would Enable
People to Vote from Prison
The Appeal, Jan. 2021
What Traffic Enforcement without
Police Could Look Like
The Appeal, Jan. 2021
The Nation’s Most Ambitious
Police Reform Launches Today
The Atlantic, Dec. 2020
Forget bad apples: Police shoot people like Jacob Blake & Breonna Taylor because of a bad system.
MSNBC, Jan. 2021
An Alternative to Police That
Police Can Get Behind
The Atlantic, Dec. 2020
New laws lead some
Washington prosecutors to
rethink three-strike life sentences
The Seattle Times, Jan. 2021
How did we end up with our
current system of public defenders?
The Nation, Dec. 2020
Change police hiring to improve policing on a systemic level
The Seattle Times, Dec.. 2020
How States Transformed
Criminal Justice in 2020,
and how they fell short
The Appeal, Dec. 2020
Seahawks Co-Produce
Documentary On New Criminal Justice Reform Program
Seahawks.com, Dec. 2020
How Cities Lost Control
of Police Discipline
The New York Times, Dec. 2020
House and Senate Democrats Propose Change to 13th Amendment, Ending Slave Labor in Prisons
COLORLINES Dec. 2020
Challenging police violence …
while Black
Reuters Investigates, Dec. 2020
Lawmakers, Activists Set Ambitious Agenda for Police Reform
US News & World Report, Dec. 2020
Vote on King County sheriff
presents opening for police reform
Crosscut, Nov. 2020
Police killings more likely in agencies that get military gear, data shows
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Oct. 2020
George Floyd’s encounters with police were constant, an experience shared by other Black men
The Washington Post, Oct. 2020
Uncovering the Hidden $372 Billion Cost of Our Criminal Justice System
TIME, Oct. 2020
San Francisco Cops Will No Longer Be Called 1st For Nonviolent Crisis
NPR, Oct. 2020
Inmates with Mental Illness are Illegally Stuck in WA Jails
Crosscut, Oct. 2020
A Black man serving a life sentence for stealing hedge clippers is granted parole after nearly 24 years in prison
Washington Post, Oct. 2020
It Is Possible to
Reform the Police
New York Times, Sept. 2020
The Breonna Taylor Case &
Questions About Qualified Immunity
Equal Justice Initiative, Sept. 2020
Police Shootings Database
Washington Post, Sept. 2020
How to Abolish the Police
Vanity Fair, Sept. 2020
SF DA seeks to overturn
wrongful convictions through
‘Innocence Commission’
Mission Local, Sept. 2020
Police Unions: How Law
Enforcement Closes Ranks
Vanity Fair, Sept. 2020
The Shooting of Jacob Blake
is a Wake-Up Call
The Atlantic, Sept. 2020
America’s Policing System is Broken
TIME Magazine, August 2020
Majority of Public Favors Giving Civilians the Power to Sue Police Officers for Misconduct
Pew Research, July 2020
Huntsville Alabama Police
Mental Health Call
Washington Post, July 2020
Police harassment of my youth and executive career haunts me still
Seattle Times. June 2020
When cities go bankrupt,
it’s Black lives at risk
Fortune, June. 2020
How Police Unions Enable and Conceal Abuses of Power
New Yorker, June 2020
Phillip Atiba Goff on reducing
racial discrimination in policing
The Economist, June 2020
How to reform American
police, according to experts
Vox, June 2020
Community leaders, activists, law enforcement, and others offer 14
ways to confront racist policing.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2020
The Fury in US Cities is Rooted in
a Long History of Racist Policing
The Conversation, June 2020
In 1919, the State Failed to Protect Black Americans. It's Still Failing
The Guardian, May 2020
Violence in Minneapolis is Rooted
in the History of Racist Policing
Washington Post, May 2020
How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time
Prison Policy Initiative, 2016
Kent Police promises new
policies and data in wake of anonymous campaign
KUOW, Feb. 2021
The New Debt Prisons —
Entrapping debtors betrays the American idea. It must end.
The New York Times, Feb. 2021
The Police Departments With
The Biggest Racial Disparities
In Arrests And Killings
FiveThirtyEight, Feb. 2021
How a Genetic Trait in Black
People Can Give the Police Cover
The New York Times, May 2021
Police departments adopting
facial recognition tech amid allegations of wrongful arrests
60 Minutes, May 2021
Washington Law Enforcement
Will Soon Be Required to Learn
the History of Race and Policing,
Will it Be Enough to Spark Change?
South Seattle Emerald, May 2021
Police shootings of children spark new outcry, calls for training to
deal with adolescents in crisis
The Washington Post, May 2021
Tensions rise as Seattle City Hall
seeks alternatives to police
The Seattle Times, May 2021
What Seattle can learn from
Berkeley about reducing
police role in traffic stops
The Seattle Times, May 2021
Social workers, EMS — not
NYPD — to respond to
non-violent mental
health calls citywide
PIX11, April 2021
When communities try to
hold police accountable,
law enforcement fights back
Washington Post, April 2021
History's Lesson for Activists
Who Want to Defund the Police
Time, April 2021
American Police Are
Inadequately Trained
The Atlantic, April 2021
How broken policing is
breaking our democracy
Vox, April 2021
Report Shed Light on the Pattern
of Over-policing That Led Cops
to Pull Over Daunte Wright
The Appeal, April 2021
It’s Time to Reject Fines and Fees
as a Solution to Budget Problems
Route Fifty, April 2021
To Protect the Next George Floyd, We Must Remove the Threat of
Police Violence from Everyday Life
Time, April 2021
After Daunte Wright's killing,
criticism of 'pretextual'
traffic stops grows
Star Tribune, April 2021
Being Black in America
is exhausting
The Washington Post, April 2021
How a Common Air
Freshener Can Result in a
High-Stakes Traffic Stop
The New York Times, April 2021
Daunte Wright and the
grim financial incentive
behind traffic stops
Vox, April 2021
Court Vindicates Black Officer Fired for Stopping Colleague’s Chokehold
The New York Times, April 2021
After Daunte Wright's Death, Advocates Press Leaders to Get
Police Out of Traffic Enforcement
The Appeal, April 2021
City of Kent settles Joseph-McDade civil rights lawsuit for $4.4 million
Kent Reporter, April 2021
Legislature moves to resentence
without parole under Washington’s three-strikes law
The Seattle Times, April 2021
7 Texas Officers Are Fired in Death
of Black Man Restrained in Jail
The New York Times, April 2021
The Seattle Times, March 2021
"Untapped Potential" of State
Courts to Advance Civil Rights
The Appeal, March 2021
A project of the Editorial Board,
in conversation with outside voices
The Washington Post, March 2021
Oakland moves to put fire department in charge of mental health response calls, not police
East Bay Times, March 2021
The Appeal, March 2021
A Florida Lawmaker Introduced Legislation to Remove Traffic Enforcement from Police
The Appeal, March 2021
Fatal SPD Shooting Highlights Debate About Responses to
Armed Mental Health Crises
Publicola, March 2021
The Most Ambitious Effort Yet
to Reform Policing May Be Happening In Ithaca, New York
GQ, Feb. 2021
Cops and Hippies
Not every call to the police
requires an armed response.
Reasons to be Cheerful, Feb. 2021
Texas Study Shows Diversion
Curbs Recidivism, Strengthens
Job Prospects
The Crime Report, Feb. 2021
Poverty and Mass Incarceration in New York: An Agenda for Change
The Brennan Center Feb. 2021
The Carceral Force of Prosecutor Associations, Explained
The Appeal, Feb. 2021
Illinois Becomes First State
to Eliminate Cash Bail
The New York Time, Feb. 2021
The City Where Police Unleash
Dogs on Black Teens
The Marshall Project, Feb. 2021
Elijah McClain death: Aurora police didn’t have legal basis to stop, frisk or choke 23-year-old, investigation finds
The Denver Post, Feb. 2021
Joe Ligon was locked up at age 15. almost seven decades later, he's reentering an unfamiliar world.
The Washington Post, Feb. 2021
Durham's may give formerly incarcerated $500 per month in guaranteed income.
The News & Observer, Feb. 2021
States make it easier to clear
up criminal records
Axios, Feb. 2021