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In response to Aviva’s question, I do believe that there are only a small percentage of officers who are bad apples. Of course the definintion of “bad apples” is always open to discussion because there are varying degrees of misconduct and negligence that happen on a daily basis.
Michael G. Santos, We have tools other than the hammer you mentioned. Judges in Hawaii and South Dakota independently created programs that…
Unfortunately, only a few other states, such as Alaska, Texas, and Washington, have these programs. But the Justice…
Judge Alm manages both the HOPE program and the drug court, which allows him to determine which platform is best for individual offenders. If someone is in the…
Hi, I’m Paul Larkin with the Heritage Foundation. I work on issues including criminal justice reform and over criminalization. Happy to be here to discuss this…
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Heather Rice-Minus One of the other things that is largely missed in these conversations is that we need to base policy on best practices supported by empirical research. Our politicians and law enforcement are finally starting to understand that. We know now that tough on crime/deterrence has largely been a failure from a policy perspective. And your right its time to shift the paradigm.
So grateful to have Jeremy Haile’s leadership on this important initiative. When I went into the prison system, in 1987, our country was ramping up its hyperbolic growth curve to mass incarceration. We incarcerated about 600,000 people then. Now statistics show that we incarcerate more than 2.3 million people — at a cost to taxpayers in excess of $80…
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