Policing the USA

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The DOJ should make you safer. Why is it doing the opposite?

Opinion: Cops should protect people and stay out of politics

David Couper and Noble Wray

Sonya Massey asked for help. Police killed her instead.

My arrest at Columbia was a nightmare. It should never have happened.

He was once locked up. He's kept more than 600 people out of prison since.

James E. Causey

When a child is prosecuted, who wins? Protect kids, don't lock them up.

Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, Jim Hingeley and Miriam Krinsky

Biden wants non violent offenders out of jail

Crime is down in America. You wouldn't know it if you watch Fox News.

Don't let good cops go unnoticed in the movement for police reform

Federal agents took her child, citing trafficking. Can they do that?

Laurence Reisman

What's threatening your right to an attorney? Congress.

I committed no crime but lost my car for years. How? Civil forfeiture.

Stephanie Wilson

DOJ should not obstruct new prison sentencing reform

Erica Zunkel and Nathaniel Berry

'I will always love you': A letter from a mother to her killed son

On criminal justice, we ignore progress at our peril

I'm first-generation Indian American. Is my life also worth $11,000?

Colorado man says vision permanently damaged after police pepper-sprayed his face

I know Angola prison's old death row. It shouldn't house kids.

Sister Helen Prejean

Murder in the US is down. How do we keep it that way?

Richard Rosenfeld

Police can't handle mental health crises on their own. They need help.

Currie Myers and Ja’Ron Smith

Statutes of limitations hurt those already victimized by police

Violent crime plagues San Francisco. Here are 6 steps city must take.

Louisville cops acted heroically. Department still has 'deep' problems.

A month after yet another police killing, where's the bodycam video?

Defense attorneys are vital for justice. Why do we undervalue them?

April Frazier Camara, Lori James-Townes and Lisa Monet Wayne

How trauma training could help reform policing. Really.

Michael Harrison, Michael Cox and Molly Baldwin

Why my dad, Muhammad Ali, would have fought against this war, too

Khaliah Ali and Jason Flom

Murdaugh murder case exposes double standards of the death penalty

How to stop the next police killing? Answers lie in 'messy middle.'

How can a separate court system be equal for Jackson, Mississippi?

Police reform is failing. Here's a better way to hold cops accountable.

Christopher J. Schneider and Erick Laming

From Idaho to Tyre Nichols, what we get wrong about public safety

Emily Galvin-Almanza

Cutting police violence requires not only hardware but also data tools

What Kim Kardashian and I want Gen Z to know about mass incarceration