Police in major metropolitan areas now use “predictive policing” technologies to identify and deter crime.  Based on algorithmic forecasts from… Read More

Prosecutors hold most of the power in the American criminal justice system.  After making the initial decision to charge a… Read More

What does good policing look like?  At first blush, that question may conjure up images of uniformed officers chatting with… Read More

While there is much to be said about the problem of mass incarceration and strategies for de-incarceration, the goal of… Read More

In 2015, a white, male school police officer in Columbia, South Carolina, entered a classroom to confront a sixteen-year-old Black… Read More

The late 1990s witnessed a dramatic change in the perception and policy of juvenile justice in America.  Reacting to a… Read More