COVID pandemic and isolation likely pushed spike in 2020 homicides and assaults James Alan Fox, USA Today
Violent crime is plentiful in Chicago, and smart crime-fighting ideas are in short supply Micheline Maynard, Washington Post
Democrats see political peril in replacing Minneapolis PD Steve Karnowski, AP News
The Local Elected Officials Who Are Tanking Police Reform Jessica Pishko, Slate
US Supreme Court rebuffs New Jersey police shooting ‘qualified immunity’ case Andrew Chung, Reuters
Supreme Court turns away closely watched criminal justice disputes Brad Kutner, Courthouse News
Justice Breyer Calls for Court to Review Death Penalty Jurisprudence as Oldest Man on Texas Death Row Fails to Have His Case Heard Colin Kalmbacher, Law & Crime
Missouri is slated to execute Ernest Johnson. Lawmakers and the pope want his life to be spared. Kim Bellware, Washington Post
Closing Rikers Island is a matter of life and death Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post
Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island: “It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There.” Beth Schwartzapfel, The Marshall Project
At Rikers, Youth ‘Abandoned to Darkness’ Jeffrey A. Schwartz, The Crime Report
Crisis At Rikers: How NYC Judges Fueled An Increase In The City’s Jail Population George Joseph and Akash Mehta, Gothamist
Money Bail Is Unjust And Should End Will Snowden, Forbes
These Utahns are too poor to afford bail – and now they’re suing Jessica Miller, Salt Lake Tribune
California voters rejected ‘zero bail.’ Now lawmakers weigh new overhaul of system Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
California Writes Off $534M in Justice Debt for Low-Income Residents The Crime Report
The US criminal justice system is failing sexual assault survivors. It needs a feminist overhaul Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
Gabby Petito and one way to break media’s ‘missing white woman syndrome’ Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
White Riot Laura Nahmias, New York Magazine