Law enforcement, criminal justice & the law

Campaign Zero

Report to the United Nations on racial disparities in the US criminal justice system

The New Jim Crow

From the war on poverty to the war on crime: the making of mass incarceration in America

Locking up our own: crime and punishment in Black America

In at least 178 cases over three years, law enforcement killed the individuals they were called to assist

Life after lockup

The untold story: criminal injustice

Children on the outside

Slave patrols & the origins of modern day policing

Emancipation and the birth of the professional police force

Will we ever get beyond ‘the fire next time’?

Broken doors: How no-knock warrants are deployed in the American justice system

Black women and the carceral state

Like I was a man: chain gangs, gender, and the domestic carceral sphere

An unjust burden

Thousands dead, few prosecuted

The entire legal system has a racism problem

The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeated police misconduct

Black and unarmed

Presumption of guilt

An unequal justice

Out of prison but still trapped

The mark of a criminal record

American police & the condemnation of Blackness

How Clinton made mass incarceration worse

Sentencing 13- and 14-year-old children to die in prison

How America criminalizes Black youth

The history and impact of non-unanimous jury decisions

13th

Mapping police violence

Policing the police

On our watch

Shots fired

Militarization of the police

What exactly does it mean to defund the police?

7 myths about “defunding the police” debunked

Illegal discrimination in jury selection

How racism shapes jury selection

How the jury in the Ahmaud Arbery case ended up nearly all white, “like a relic of the old South"

Of 20 jurors seated in Kyle Rittenhouse trial, one person of color

Rittenhouse verdict highlights statistical white supremacy in our judicial system

Punishment without crime

Is stop-and-frisk worth it?

Not the killer, but charged with murder

White privilege in the justice system

How the 1994 crime bill drove mass incarceration

Prison gerrymandering: The modern Three-Fifths Compromise

Where prisoners who can't vote fill voting districts

End prison gerrymandering

Racial double standard in drug laws persists today

The deep roots of sexual policing in America

How prosecutors and plea bargains drive mass incarceration

We don’t hate crime nearly half as much as we love punishment

An allegation as old as America

Night driving