Category Archives: Criminal Justice Reform

Aug 12 2020

Wrongful Convictions: Yet Another Disturbing Study

According to the National Registry of Exonerations, there have been 2,647 exonerations of people wrongfully convicted in this country since 1989. There have been…

Jul 12 2020

Prisons Reforms Need to Curb Abuse, Excessive Force

Steve J. Martin is a “prison expert.” His expertise has been utilized by the U.S. Justice Department, U.S. Homeland Security Department, and the federal…

Jun 28 2020

Police Reform: The Only Road to Public Safety

An unprecedented 95 percent of Americans favor criminal justice reforms that include police reforms. The National Opinion Research Center (“NORC”) at the University of…

Jun 22 2020

Law Enforcement Resists Reform

For over a decade, we have written about the “ epidemic ” of police misconduct and the devastating impact of systemic racism inside the…

Jun 14 2020

Divisive Politics and Racism of the Criminal Justice System

Top officials of the Trump administration, including U.S. Attorney General William Barr,claimthere is no “systemic racism” in law enforcement in this country. Yet the…

Jun 03 2020

Violent Police Misconduct Protected By Qualified Immunity

The murder of George Floyd by police in Minnesota has brought demands for racial justice to a pitched boil after generations of racial profiling,…

Jun 02 2020

Police Homicide, President Trump and the Complicity of White America

In July 2017, President Donald J. Trump, as the nation’s “ chief law enforcement officer ” as he likes to call himself, implored police…

May 20 2020

Ahmuad Arbery Fell to Racist Deeds of A Bad Cop

Two white men, 64-year-old Gregory McMichael and his 34-year-old son, Travis, are under arrest for the February 23, 2020 shooting death of an unarmed…

May 13 2020