News & Commentary about Criminal Law Reform
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Sep 21, 2017
St. Louis Police’s Chants of ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Once Again Reveal the Warped Mindset Infecting Too Many Departments
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Sep 18, 2017
Jeff Sessions Is Dismantling the Justice Department’s Community Policing Initiative When We Need It Most
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Sep 13, 2017
The House Tells Sessions’ Justice Department It Will Not Stand for Civil Asset Forfeiture
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Sep 12, 2017
The Minneapolis Police Department Is Finally Sharing Data on Police Stops. Other Departments Should Follow.
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Sep 11, 2017
Here’s How Communities and City Councils Can Reject Trump’s Militarization of Local Police
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Sep 11, 2017
The Right to Due Process in Detention: Jennings v. Rodriguez
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Sep 1, 2017
Retired Police Major: Police Militarization Endangers Public Safety
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Aug 28, 2017
Trump Just Gave Thousands of Bayonets And Hundreds of Grenade Launchers Back To Police
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Jul 31, 2017
Donald Trump’s Talk to Police Officers Was Police-State Authoritarianism Distilled to Its Essence
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Jul 26, 2017
Even Fake Law Enforcement Agencies Can Get Weapons of War for ‘Policing’