The Making of the Surveillance State Andrew Lanham, New Republic
How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker
The Brooklyn subway attack shows the surveillance state won’t save you Jeva Lange, The Week
Police surveillance and facial recognition: Why data privacy is imperative for communities of color Nicol Turner Lee and Caitlin Chin, Brookings
‘We Knew It Was Coming’: Police-Reform Advocates in Grand Rapids, Mich., Had Been Bracing for a Death Like Patrick Lyoya’s Janell Ross, Time Magazine
US police have killed nearly 600 people in traffic stops since 2017, data shows Sam Levin, The Guardian
Cities Try to Turn the Tide on Police Traffic Stops David D. Kirkpatrick, Steve Eder, and Kim Barker, New York Times
Supreme Court Debates Whether Miranda Warnings Are a Constitutional Right Adam Liptak, New York Times
Can you sue the police for Miranda violations? Court will wrestle with rules, rights, and remedies for wrongs. Lenese Herbert, SCOTUSblog
The Supreme Court won’t stop racial discrimination in capital trials. Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
An innocent man is on death row. Alabama officials seem OK with that. Kyle Whitmire, AL.com
Why Is Toforest Johnson Still on Alabama’s Death Row? Drayton Nabers Jr., Alabama Daily News
Melissa Lucio will be executed in just a few days if Texas officials don’t block this injustice Valena Beety, USA Today
122 Immigrants Face the US Death Penalty. Only 2 of Those Sentences Honor International Law. Matt Nadel, Boston Review
As inflation keeps rising, more small-time thefts count as felonies Russell Contreras, Axios
Too Many People Are Locked Up for Small Thefts (2021) Editorial Board, New York Times
A rural prosecutor pledged reform. Critics say he delivered disaster. Karin Brulliard, Washington Post