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South Florida’s Broward County School Board voted unanimously to sign new rules, written by many hands, which are meant to drive down arrests and their unintended consequences in the state’s second most populous school district. The Nov. 5 Memorandum of Understanding approved by the school board has its signatories promise “appropriate responses and use of resources when responding to school-based misbehavior.”
A new report shows that within the Australian juvenile justice system young indigenous people are vastly overrepresented.
Research consistently “fails to support the argument that curfews reduce crime or criminal victimization."
Exploring why a shocking number of pacific islander youth end up in juvenile jail in Australia each year.
"Jim Crow with a spreadsheet is still Jim Crow." How statistical bigotry leads to racial profiling.
African-American youth in Oakland, Calif. are arrested — but then not charged — at “vastly disproportionate” rates compared to others, according to a report released this week by civil rights advocates.
In a bid to decongest the nation’s overpopulated prisons, the Obama administration has proposed leniency for certain drug cases.
The streets are about to become safer for black and Latino teens who have been increasingly subjected to routine stop and frisks by the NYPD.
“As the so-called ‘war on drugs’ enters its fifth decade, we need to ask whether it, and the approaches that comprise it, have been truly effective,” Holder stated.
Before June 2010, when Robert Stolarik visited the Brownsville Houses for an assignment to cover what was being touted as a new anti-crime policy implemented by the NYPD, he had never heard of Stop and Frisk.