Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha Won’t Face Civil-Rights Charges Sadie Gurman, Wall Street Journal
Few Denver police officers disciplined over treatment of protesters at last year’s racial justice demonstrations Elise Schmelzer and Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post
Miami Will Fire Police Chief Who Likened Leaders to Cuban Dictators Patricia Mazzei, New York Times
Miami decides to fire Police Chief Art Acevedo and end a short but tumultuous tenure Charles Rabin and Joey Flechas, Miami Herald
Gun violence claiming more lives of American teens, children Jim Salter and Claudia Lauer, AP News
Curbing Violence: What Works The Crime Report
To Combat Gun Violence, Clean Up the Neighborhood Eugenia C. South, New York Times
Urban Blight Remediation as Cost-Beneficial Solution to Firearm Violence Charles C. Branas, Michelle C. Kondo, Sean M. Murphy, et al., American Journal of Public Health
Fighting Violence Through Home Repair Tom Kutsch, The Trace
Pennsylvania is the only state that doesn’t fund public defenders. That needs to change. Christopher Welsh, Philadelphia Inquirer
Alabama Will Spend Nearly 20 Percent of Its Federal COVID Relief Money to Build Human Cages Madison Pauly, Mother Jones
The Shadow Penal System for Struggling Kids Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker
Most Prisoners Can’t Vote, But They’re Still Counted In Voting Districts Hansi Lo Wang, WBEZ
When It Costs $53,000 to Vote Damon Winter and Jesse Wegman, New York Times
Prison polling places? Some lawmakers, advocates want to restore voting rights to those behind bars Rachel Hinton, Chicago Sun-Times
Another victim of America’s greatest forensics fraudster has been exonerated Radley Balko, Washington Post
He befriended his brother’s murderer. In each other, they found healing Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times
An Expert on the Criminal Mind, Now He’s Suspected in an Arson Spree Thomas Fuller and Livia Albeck-Ripka, New York Times
New true crime show recounts how a Bay Area daughter’s ‘recovered memory’ led to a murder trial Katie Dowd, SFGate