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Nicole Bengiveno / The New York Times / … The Stumbling Block to One of the Most Promising Police Reforms
The best mental-health responders in the world can help only if emergency dispatchers know when to deploy them.
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Andrew Burton / Getty The Anti-gun Laws That Make Progressives Uneasy
Are provisions meant to keep firearms off the streets too unjust to enforce?
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Keystone-France / Getty The Other Speed Trap
America’s traffic laws hurt the poor, and don’t really deter anyone. But what if traffic fines scaled with income?
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The Atlantic Does Being a Victim of Crime Shift a Politician’s Views?
Representative Mary Gay Scanlon speaks about having her car stolen from her at gunpoint.
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Adria Malcolm / The New York Times / … Justice Reformers Need to Update Their Priors
As a long decline in murder rates reverses, proponents of draconian law enforcement shouldn’t be allowed to monopolize the discussion.
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Getty; The Atlantic How to Go After Rogue Prosecutors
Out-of-line police departments are subject to investigations and court orders. Why not apply those same tools to attorneys who disregard defendants’ rights?
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Getty; The Atlantic The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away
Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.
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Getty; Adam Maida / The Atlantic The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out
Why is it so hard to figure out if America’s enormous surge in theft is real?
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Octavio Jones / AP; Stephen B. Morton / … The System Only Worked Because It Was Pushed
The most surprising aspect of the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is not the verdict, but the fact that it happened at all.
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Malike Sidibe for The Atlantic The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side
Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit
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Sean Krajacic / Getty The Rittenhouse Trial Could Never Have Been What Americans Wanted
Even a guilty verdict would not have answered the questions the case had come to symbolize.
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John Boss / The Advocate / AP 57 Years in a Cage Is Long Enough
It’s time Henry Montgomery came home.
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Mike Simons / Getty Oklahoma Tortured John Grant to Death Because He Wouldn’t Commit Suicide
In the pursuit of killing its own citizens, this country has created a bestial regime.
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Cam McLaren / Getty Focus on Who Police Are, Not What They Do
To improve its police force, New Zealand used humor to attract a whole different kind of cop.
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Getty; The Atlantic Justice for the Dead
Pardons are most beneficial when they redeem the living. But posthumous ones can show that discredited values of the past are no longer the values of the present.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty; The Atlantic America Is Losing Its Black Police Officers
After decades of gains, departments face a wave of retirements.
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Jonathan Bachman / Reuters; Michel Delsol / Getty; … America Is Having a Violence Wave, Not a Crime Wave
As violent crime rose in 2020, property crime continued a years-long decline.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Murders Are Spiking in America
What the data can’t tell us is why.
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Getty; The Atlantic What the Rest of America Can Learn From Colorado
One year after widespread protests, state reforms have brought accountability to policing, if not an end to brutality.
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Yalonda M. James / The San Francisco Chronicle; … His Dad Got a Chance at Clemency. Then His Baby Was Born.
In an interview, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin discusses fatherhood, who deserves to be punished, his relationship with the police, and more.
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