Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
21 July 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Two decades ago, California became the first state to create a system to track and seize guns from people no longer legally permitted to possess a gun. Thousands of guns have been seized. But the database of gun owner...
15 July 2021
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Vision Zero program many cities use to reduce traffic deaths depends on data to inform where to target safety measures like redesigned streets and speed limits. But, when significant numbers of crashes, particular...
12 July 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Denver's school board responded to the 2020 racial justice protests by removing the police officers who were stationed in certain middle and high schools. But the police or the district's growing force of armed guards...
9 July 2021
Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As one of the oldest programs of its kind, the Illinois Crime Victim Compensation Program was created in 1973 to reimburse victims of crime and their families for their out-of-pocket expenses, such as funeral and medi...
6 July 2021
Fairfax, Virginia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Fairfax County, Virginia, boasts the state's most ambitious program to divert cases from criminal prosecution to treatment courts, including for drug offenses and involving veterans. But all of the work by prosecutors...
23 June 2021
Nevada, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Thirteen states restored the right to vote to millions of formerly incarcerated people in the years leading up to the 2020 elections. An analysis of four of them – Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa, and New Jersey – shows the ne...
22 June 2021
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
In less than three and a half years, Safeworks, the only supervised drug-use site in Calgary, saved thousands of people from opioid-overdose deaths and helped users for whom abstinence-based treatment didn't work. The...
21 June 2021
Middletown, Connecticut, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
College-in-prison programs like Wesleyan University's Center for Prison Education have a track record for improving incarcerated students' lives, lowering crime, and making prisons safer. But a number of factors compr...
17 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Stay-away orders are a tool New York judges can use to protect victims from their abusers even before accusations get scrutinized in court. They grew out of a reform movement that urged police and prosecutors to take ...
CNBC
Nathaniel Lee
17 June 2021
United States
Broadcast TV News
Over 15 Minutes
Fifty years on, America's war on drugs has failed at its principal goals: to eradicate illicit drug use and sales, to repair communities damaged by the drug trade, and to prevent drug-related deaths. Despite massive a...
16 June 2021
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Montgomery County's longtime crisis response center illustrates the pitfalls of embracing a policing alternative without proper resources or thinking through the implications. The racial-justice protests of 2020 inspi...
14 June 2021
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Research shows that online training isn’t successful at changing attitudes or beliefs on sexual assault. This article takes an in-depth look at EverFi, an online sexual assault module that students at Western Washingt...
11 June 2021
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The nationwide 988 call system for suicide prevention and mental health crises will go live in July 2022, with federal funding available for certain local crisis response programs. Santa Cruz and Alameda counties alre...
10 June 2021
New Jersey, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Three "historic firsts in policing reforms" show how attempts to root out systemic problems in policing can fail. In all three cases – federal intervention to curb civil rights abuses in Pittsburgh, a computerized ear...
2 June 2021
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Radio Talk Show
Over 15 Minutes
The CAHOOTS program's national popularity as a model for diverting crisis calls from the police to unarmed teams of a medic and counselor belies its inability to fully serve its own community because of under-funding....
1 June 2021
South Carolina, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
If Virginia taxpayers who lost their jobs in the pandemic want to understand why their unemployment insurance payments lagged for months and why they couldn't get the Virginia Employment Commission on the phone, they ...
31 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
St. Louis was one of the first cities to adopt ShotSpotter technology, which uses a network of microphones, software, and human monitors to detect and analyze gunshot sounds. The detection system summoned police more ...
26 May 2021
Cicero, Illinois, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
"Gang contracts" are used by many schools as a way to tell students they are suspected of gang activity and must avoid such activity or face discipline or expulsion. Gang contracts have been put to extensive use in th...
25 May 2021
Plymouth, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
As New Hampshire schools debate the presence of police officers stationed in schools, one model they and other states can consider is found at Minnesota Intermediate School District 287. That district lowered in-schoo...
22 May 2021
New Hampshire, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Barriers to participation are keeping millennials from civic engagement in New Hampshire. Unaffordable housing, a lack of childcare, uncompensated civic engagement, office and voting hours that conflict with work sche...
20 May 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Alameda and Santa Cruz counties have fielded their own mobile teams to respond to mental health crises as alternatives to police-only responses. Aimed at reducing conflicts with police, overuse of hospitals and jails,...
19 May 2021
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Text
Over 3000 Words
Canadian cities lack the housing supply to keep up with demand and zoning laws are partly to blame. Land is designated specifically for single-family homes, which is the least efficient use of space, generates the low...
17 May 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Five years after the FBI started tracking how often police use force, the majority of police departments still fail to comply and the FBI refuses to release publicly what information it has collected. The policy was e...
11 May 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
More than a year after taking effect, California's law restricting when police can use deadly force has had some effects on police accountability and training, but a number of flaws illustrate how long and difficult t...
9 May 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Despite committing hundreds of millions of dollars to programs that make New York City's emergency response to mental health crises less punitive, a pattern of over-promising and under-delivering, plus pandemic snarls...
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