When the Criminal Justice System Screws Up
New NIJ Special Report: Mending Justice: Sentinel Event Reviews Errors in our criminal justice system inflict specific harm—an individual is wrongfully convicted, a criminal goes free, and people lose...
View ArticleNational News Bashing Trump About New Police Report Omits Relationship
Observations There is a new organization of police executives, Law Enforcement Leaders. They submitted a report that many news sources suggest is critical of President Donald Trump and his criminal...
View ArticleImprove Police Public Relations or Fail
Observations The Heritage Foundation offerers a new report on crime and justice. The justice system needs to do a better job of telling our story. We need to control our own message. We need to...
View ArticleProsecutors Now Run Parole and Probation
Highlights Reform-minded prosecutors are setting policy for parole and parole and probation agencies. Change should come from research or the US Department of Justice or from national associations, but...
View ArticleCounting Crime in America Could Get Contentious
Highlights Newsy has learned the FBI is going to stop collecting crime data for its Uniform Crime Report (UCR) from an estimated one in four police agencies across the nation. Newsy has learned the FBI...
View ArticleRecommendations-The President’s Commission on Law Enforcement
Highlights A summary of recommended improvements for law enforcement and the justice system from the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. The members were joined...
View ArticleAdvocates Insist That Offender Rehabilitation Programs Work-Are They Right?
Highlights Do programs for criminal offenders work? Per US Department of Justice data, most don’t. There are daily articles stating that programs significantly reduce recidivism. Is evidence-based...
View ArticleWill Progressive Crime Policies Destroy Cities-And Democrats?
Highlights My “progressive” thought? Americans should live in peace and prosperity. You do that by holding criminal offenders accountable. Doubt that? Just ask the #MeToo… The post Will Progressive...
View ArticleAfrican American Perceptions Of Institutions Including Law Enforcement
Highlights An overview of race, fairness, law enforcement, the justice system, and other institutions. Author Leonard Adam Sipes, Jr. Retired federal senior spokesperson. Thirty-five years… The post...
View ArticleCan You Change Violent Offenders? Crime in Washington, D.C.
Highlights D.C.’s mayor said she can bring gun violence down by 90 percent by focusing on “the people and places where most of the crime… The post Can You Change Violent Offenders? Crime in Washington,...
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