Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
25 October 2017
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Jails are overcrowded with inmates awaiting their trial and who didn't have the money to make bail. Across the country states are trying to implement new policies to deny high-risk felons bail, while conducting risk a...
22 July 2017
Rockford, Illinois, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In efforts to diminish violent crime, police agencies are revisiting a model law enforcement strategy of the 1970s, "community policing," as an alternative to the more recent "broken windows" style of the late ninetie...
1 March 2016
High Point, North Carolina, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
High Point, North Carolina, had the highest rates of domestic abuse in the state. The county decided to take a more comprehensive approach to the standard methods of the criminal justice system by adding in better col...
1 October 2013
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Chicago is curbing homicides through an anti-violence initiative that uses social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed. Police then do home visits and have personal conversations with peopl...
10 July 2013
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles,the Crips and Blood gangs have violently fought each other for decades. By 2013, the LAPD has enforced new measures including community policing with an emphasis on fairness ra...
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