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  • Manhattan Tries New Approach to Avoid Court for Low-Level Crimes

    Fola Akinnibi

    March 19, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To keep low-level crime cases out of the court process, courts in Manhattan are allowing people to take workshops on overdose intervention, social resilience, or restorative justice instead. The aim is to provide early intervention in cases that will likely be dismissed, prevent potential collateral consequences of having a charge on record, and free up staff to focus on issues like violent crime.

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  • America Is the World Leader in Locking People Up. One City Found a Fix

    Sarah Holder Fola Akinnibi

    August 29, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s supervised release system allows people who would be incarcerated before their trial to instead stay out of jail and have scheduled check-ins with nonprofit caseworkers. The caseworkers help meet their needs while they await the trial, which includes a range of support from providing food to receiving mental health support to helping them remain employed and housed.

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  • Cincinnati Was a Model for Police Reform. What Happened?

    Fola Akinnibi

    September 02, 2021 |

    Bloomberg Businessweek |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    A 2002 agreement with the U.S. Justice Department made Cincinnati a model of police reform. After a series of controversial shootings of residents, police committed to a less harsh, more publicly accountable approach that, for a time, seemed to work. Arrests and crime both fell. Public support for the police grew. But now the city is a model for something else: how progress can be undercut if a city grows complacent and fails to perform the hard work of sustaining a different sort of policing.

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