The New “Crime Wave” Panic and the Long Shadow of John Walsh Paul M. Renfro, New Republic
Birmingham’s Young Mayor Promised to Radically Rethink Criminal Justice. Then Shootings Spiked. Chip Brownlee, The Trace
When Shootings Erupt, These Moms, Pastors And Neighbors Step In To Defuse Tension Jasmine Garsd, NPR
Behind Police Leaders Claims That Bail Reform Is Responsible For Surge In Violence CBS Chicago
Five Misconceptions About Police Reform Nancy La Vigne, The Crime Report
“Shooting First and Asking Questions Later” Alysia Santo and RG Dunlop, The Marshall Project
‘Warrior mindset’ police training proliferated. Then, high-profile deaths put it under scrutiny. Max Hauptman, Washington Post
In a first, NJ details disciplinary penalties for police Colleen O’Dea, NJ Spotlight
Minneapolis police to curb stops for minor traffic violators AP News
Phoenix police disciplined for ‘dubious’ charges against protesters and ‘hate speech’-inspired memorabilia Katie Shepherd, Washington Post
LAPD officers are supposed to wear masks. They keep getting caught without them Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times
Over 500 Cops Have Died of COVID-19: Police Union Eva Herscovitz, The Crime Report
Carceral Institutions in the Era of COVID-19 Christina A. Li, Harvard Political Review
Massachusetts prison deals with inmate coronavirus outbreak WHDH
COVID-19 in Alaska prisons forces cutoff of visitation and some services Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News
Top Senate Democrats urge Biden to take immediate action on home confinement program Harper Neidig, The Hill
A Fight to Expose the Hidden Human Costs of Incarceration Eyal Press, The New Yorker
A Failure of the Imagination Charles Fried, Inquest
After The Assault Capital Public Radio
How Utterly Depraved! Deborah Friedell, London Review of Books