PM Stories
A woman killed. An officer shot. And no one legally responsible. David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post
How “Absurd Legal Maneuvering” Protected the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor Nathalie Baptiste, Mother Jones
True Justice for Breonna Taylor Won’t Come From Criminal Charges Alone Somil Trivedi, Slate
Louisville’s Police Force Feels Besieged on Two Fronts Will Wright, John Eligon, and Rukmini Callimachi, New York Times
Is Black Lives Matter Causing a Police Shortage? Alex Yablon, Slate
Is Violent Crime Rising In Cities Like Trump Says? Well, It’s Complicated. Weihua Li, The Marshall Project
‘Race and Violence in our Cities’? A topic for the first presidential debate draws criticism. Paul Farhi and Elahe Izadi, Washington Post
White Supremacists Top Terrorist Threats Within US, Wolf Says Josyana Joshua and Daniel Flatley, Bloomberg
Revealed: pro-Trump activists plotted violence ahead of Portland rallies Jason Wilson and Robert Evans, The Guardian
Armed protesters in America create stress test for police Patrik Jonsson and Noah Robertson, Christian Science Monitor
Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the US Michael Barajas, Texas Observer
‘What if something happens and he doesn’t get to come home?’ Brianna Bailey, The Frontier
The Pirates of the Highways Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Narratively
AM Stories
What happens to the law in a world without Ruth Bader Ginsburg? Ian Millhiser, Vox
How Losing RBG Could Shape Criminal Justice For Years to Come Eli Hager and Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
Another accounting of Justice Ginsburg’s criminal justice legacy Sentencing Law and Policy
As part of revived federal death penalty, Christopher Vialva set for execution in Texas double murder Jolie McCullough, Texas Tribune
How A Perpetrator’s Race And Age Factor Into Who Is Executed Carrie Johnson, NPR
Gov. Newsom must sign the Racial Justice Act to bar discrimination in California courts Michelle Alexander, Sacramento Bee
Bail Reform No Threat to Public Safety: Former NY Chief Judge Emily Riley, The Crime Report
Florida AG calls for criminal inquiry into Bloomberg’s $16M felon voter donation Matt Dixon and Gary Fineout, Politico
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court Gabriel Thompson, Longreads
Deportation Nation Julia Preston, New York Review of Books
Her Lawyers Say She Was Coerced To Plead Guilty To A Crime That Never Happened Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg, The Appeal
Jails Are Designed to Keep Inmates Hidden Hannah La Follette Ryan, The Nation
Artists Team up With Critical Resistance to Make Prison Abolition Irresistible Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED