Law Enforcement

Targeting local sheriffs and other law enforcement is an effort by FAIR to complement this direct access to the administration and develop support for its agenda outside the Beltway.

Technological tools to increase law enforcement’s surveillance capacity will be showcased at the National Sheriffs’ Association annual conference from June 14-18, heightening concerns regarding law enforcement’s targeting of minority communities.

Introduction In many ways, all eyes are on Chicago. The city increasingly finds itself at the epicenter of multiple discourses of violence and safety – from hubristic Presidential tweets claiming…

The growth of immigration enforcement further north has led many within the immigrant and refugee communities to feel that they, too, live on the border.

“If you make a mistake, another mistake, there is a very severe possibility that you’re both going to get shot,” says a cop to the man and the woman lying face down on the floor of a hotel hallway. It…

Three years post-uprising, the community still struggles to be seen.

Thinking about the place of violence in American civil religion helps solve a perplexing theme in the debate over professional athletes’ protests.

As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems.

On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections announced the reallocation of $103 million in savings resulting from the passage of 2014’s Proposition 47 criminal justice sentencing reforms.

More than an actual means of improving policy, “bipartisan criminal justice reform” has become a mantra signifying hope. But what, exactly, are bipartisan advocates seeking to reform?