Resources

Over reliance on the criminal justice system only inflicts more harm on people who need help while burdening taxpayers with an expensive and ineffective system. That’s why cities across the nation have begun to rely on pre-arrest diversion and crisis response strategies that direct people away from the criminal justice system and toward treatment, housing, and other services. Unfortunately, legislative barriers often exist at a state level that prevent local governments from maximizing the benefits of this approach.

This report comprehensively documents how US-Israel law enforcement trainings solidify partnerships between the U.S. and Israeli governments to exchange methods of state violence and control, including mass surveillance, racial profiling, and suppression of protest and dissent. Produced by Researching the American Israeli Alliance (RAIA) in partnership with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), the report is the result of dozens of FOIAs yielding hundreds of documents, exclusive interviews with American and Israeli personnel, and exhaustive academic and media research in English, Arabic and Hebrew. Accompanying the report, RAIA released the Palestine is Here Database, a search engine mapping Israeli trainings of US law enforcement across American cities and towns.

This report examines how racism and anti-LGBT discrimination combine to make LGBT people of color uniquely vulnerable to entering the criminal justice system and also facing unfair and abusive treatment once they are in it.

Nobody should mistake the drop in recorded stop-and-frisks as a sign that discriminatory stop-and-frisks are a thing of the past. This analysis looks at the practice of stop and frisk used by the NYPD has changed in recent years to find that while the numbers are down, the application of the tactic is still troubling.

After months of ignoring a city law that requires the NYPD to publish detailed reports on fare evasion enforcement, the police finally released a very limited data set. This report looks at both how this release does not comply with the law as passed, and examines what this incomplete data does show, and while the overall number of fare evasion enforcement actions are down, there are still troubling patterns in their application.

This report examines fare evasion arrest data from public defender organizations and finds that, in Brooklyn, poor black communities have higher arrest rates for jumping the turnstile than other areas of Brooklyn, even when accounting for poverty and crime.

This literature review examines research exploring the interactions between transgender people and law enforcement and criminal justice (LECJ) personnel in the U.S. to better understand the experiences of transgender people who come into contact with the criminal justice system.

A thesis on the history of video surveillance in the criminal justice field (cameras, bodyworn cameras, dashcam footage, etc.) and issues with recording, preserving, accessing videos and privacy concerns.

This report seeks to shed light by more systematically examining cooperation between ICE and local entities in the era of the Trump administration. By providing an in-depth study of the mechanisms of ICE collaboration with select county jails, county probation, and local law enforcement, this report reveals the various ways in which ICE’s enforcement system interlocks with local criminal justice systems in Pennsylvania.