Jails have been described as the criminal justice system’s “front door,” but jail incarceration typically begins with the police, with an arrest. Before any bail hearing, pretrial detention, prosecution, or sentencing, there is contact with the police. But despite their crucial role in the process, we know less about these police encounters than other stages of the criminal justice system. This report analyzes gender and racial disparities in traffic and street stops, including arrests, searches, and use of force that occurs during stops.
This report—which relies on an extensive literature review and interviews with prosecutors around the country—begins to catalog current AI uses...
This is a policy framework for police use of robots, including ground robots and unmanned aerial vehicles (“UAVs”), also known...
The expanding surveillance and criminalization of mutual aid, selfmanaged care, and bodily autonomy, and the growing attempts to criminalize pregnant...
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