Law enforcement, criminal justice & the law
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Report to the United Nations on racial disparities in the US criminal justice system
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
The untold story: criminal injustice
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
Thousands dead, few prosecuted
The entire legal system has a racism problem
The hidden billion-dollar cost of repeated police misconduct
Out of prison but still trapped
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
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
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
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