Public safety is of paramount importance. To achieve it, those who commit a crime must be held to account. But it can’t end there. Ideally, after accountability comes restoration—and a clean slate.

One man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder as the NYPD investigates the attack against three police officers on New Year’s Eve in New York’s Times Square. The 19-year-old suspect, ...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) had record lows in annual use-of-force incidents in 2019 and 2021, according to a new report from the Seattle Police Monitor. The figures also show usage of ...

For juveniles entangled with the criminal justice system, the time spent on probation can greatly impact their success in life later on, or their likelihood to recidivate. Because of this, new ...

Although there is a large and vast discussion throughout the United States around immigration, a subset of the immigrant population has been virtually ignored: the juvenile offender who is tried as an ...

At The Conversation, University of California, Santa Cruz researcher Heather Welch reported on her research work with Global Fishing Watch using missing transponder data to identify and track illegal ...

Nearly every murder, fistfight and rape at the Pine Ridge Reservation starts with a drink. Would lifting the ban on reservation liquor sales make a difference? Sgt. Kevin Rascher turns his cruiser ...

The FBI’s integrity is “tragically, under assault from too many people whose job it should be to protect” it, writes former FBI and CIA director William Webster in the New York Times. Webster, a ...

A suspended Manville New Jersey Police Chief was indicted for sexual and official misconduct by a state grand jury last week, Suzanne Russell reports for My Central Jersey. Chief Thomas Herbst has ...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced the creation of a COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to crack down in those who take advantage of federal benefits given to those financially ...

Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in New York City, is tackling the growing opioid epidemic, reports the Wall Street Journal. Bharara has asked local police to begin systematically reporting drug ...

In response to reported incidents of violence, mismanagement and escapes from the state’s juvenile lockups, some Louisiana teens are now being temporarily housed in a notorious adult prison, the ...