Recommendations for the next administration and the 119th Congress
Public Safety
We can improve public safety, reduce crime, and improve opportunities in disadvantaged communities with smarter policing and a fairer criminal justice system. We must overcome resistance from vested interests within police unions to holding unethical officers accountable for their actions.
All Public Safety
Contrary to Rafael Mangual’s thesis in ‘Criminal Injustice,’ there are ways to bring Republicans and Democrats together to improve policing.
We don’t have to choose between defunding the police and accepting the status quo.
The D.C. City Council is proposing reforms that would make Washington safer and make its police department more accountable and transparent.
An easy way for police to help Black lives matter is to reducing needless contact with law enforcement.
Police are charged with enforcing too many laws and solving too many social problems.
Our most distressed communities need a neutral, authorized, and armed force to preserve peace and order.
The tragic shooting of Jacob Blake is yet another example of why we should rethink what we ask police to do.