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.
The goal of this memo is to provide members of the labor, police reform, and police abolition movements with information...
This mini toolkit is intended to guide left movement groups through building a risk assessment for an event, action, or...
This report—which relies on an extensive literature review and interviews with prosecutors around the country—begins to catalog current AI uses...
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