Two police chiefs in Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama have spoken out to condemn a recent report by MoneyGeek that ranked the cities second and third on a list of the most dangerous cities in the ...

Data USA, an online resource for public government data, reports that roughly 12.4 percent of police officers nationally are African American, while 67 percent are white. In addition, Axios reports ...

A Neo-Nazi in Portland, Oregon, who put an Anti-Semitic racial purity sticker outside the local Immigrant & Refugee Community Organization was sentenced to an interesting rehabilitative sentence: a ...

Taxpayers fund the criminal justice system, and when things go badly wrong — an innocent man is imprisoned, or the police recklessly shoot an unarmed mental patient—the taxpayers pay the bill for the ...

With a 12th person dying in jail this year, the brutal conditions that have long characterized Rikers Island are once again on display. What we’re witnessing should compel us to act. Officials must ...

Last month, the Boston Globe detailed widespread parking violations by officers outside Boston police headquarters. Officials declared the violations, including the routine use of ...

Donald was first incarcerated when he was just seven years old. A poor kid with an under-resourced single mother, Donald was first kicked out of kindergarten for throwing tantrums. Two years later, ...

In October 2003, a star college football player named Mark Fisher was found shot dead on a leafy, residential Brooklyn, NY street. The crime attracted intense media coverage and stymied investigators ...

District Attorneys are accustomed to recommending prison sentences as part of their job. But in an unusual exercise this month, they learned what it felt like to reenter society after serving time ...

The use of Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams and other forms of “militarized policing” doesn’t deter violent crime. Instead it harms police reputation and disproportionately affects black ...

Discipline in New York’s prison system has only gotten more unequal. New York’s Inspector General Lucy Lang confirmed a significant racial disparity exists between the discipline of white incarcerated ...

This week, Thomas J. Barrack, Jr., who chaired Donald Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee, asked a federal judge to dismiss charges in connection with his alleged illegal lobbying for the United Arab ...