Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
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...
20 May 2021
New York, New York, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Saturday Night Lights is run by the DA’s office and aims to reduce gun violence by providing organized sports for school-aged kids on weekend nights, when crime often goes up. Active in 20 locations across the city, S...
6 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Frustrated at the slow pace of criminal justice reform after the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, the grassroots group Action St. Louis formed to seize political power and make change happen from the inside of the syst...
The North Wind
Katarina Rothhorn
21 April 2021
Marquette, Michigan, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Northern Michigan University's Black Student Union turned its unhappiness with the display on campus of a "thin blue line" flag into a series of deep and open conversations that led to a compromise and a new set of co...
29 March 2021
Johannesburg, South Africa
Text
Under 800 Words
Over 55,000 people have become “virtual rangers,” helping to protect South Africa’s Balule Nature Reserve from poachers. Officials at the reserve teamed up with Samsung and Africam to increase the ability to keep watc...
10 March 2021
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
By redesigning the notices it mails to people who owe the city money for pet licenses or traffic and parking fines, Seattle's Innovation and Performance project greatly improved payment rates. The effort, based on beh...
25 February 2021
Ghana
Text
1500-3000 Words
A growing number of governments, companies, and nonprofit organizations are working together with new technology and data to identify fishing vessels that are breaking laws and engaging in human rights violations. Usi...
28 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Brooklyn district attorney is prosecuting few prostitution cases and has dismissed 262 cases that he and sex worker advocates say are a byproduct of law enforcement unfairly targeting trans women and women of colo...
27 January 2021
New York, New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
On her first day as district attorney of Queens, Melinda Katz created a unit to review potential wrongful convictions that in its first year has exonerated four men and has 80 more cases under review. The Queens DA's ...
Bangor Daily News
Erin Rhoda
9 December 2020
Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A Colorado law enacted in 2016 requires law enforcement officers to disclose their past disciplinary records when seeking a new job at a different agency. By making such disclosures automatic, the law standardizes hir...
21 October 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Cyber security simulations are taking place across the country to help everyone, from government officials to journalists, to identify election-related cyber threats and coordinated disinformation campaigns and make p...
5 October 2020
Costa Rica
Text
Under 800 Words
The conservation organization Paso Pacifico "InvestEggator" program uses a set of fake sea turtle eggs to track the illegal trade of the eggs after they are snatched from nests on Costa Rica beaches. Satellite tags in...
29 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In New York's and San Francisco's Chinatowns, groups responding to anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment illustrate the tension between community-led public safety efforts that either rely on the police for assistance...
22 September 2020
Lithuania
Text
1500-3000 Words
A series of methodically planned and publicized measures to improve traffic safety have significantly lowered Lithuania's highway fatalities in what is now serving as a model for safety advocates in neighboring Poland...
25 August 2020
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A nonprofit consulting firm, Prosecutor Impact, advances the cause of reducing incarceration and related reforms by helping reform-minded elected district attorneys confront one of the greatest obstacles to change: th...
28 July 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Criminalizing domestic violence was considered a feminist-inspired advance for crime victims, but making arrests and prosecution the main responses to the problem has backfired in many ways. With funding and attention...
15 July 2020
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The city of Santa Cruz is considering adopting a crisis-intervention strategy used in Eugene, Oregon, after two fatal police shootings of people suffering a mental health crises prompted questions about how an alterna...
22 June 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Less than one month into its use of a crisis intervention team to handle mental health calls in place of the police, Denver’s one-year STAR pilot project has been flooded with calls and already has achieved success in...
19 June 2020
United States
Video
5-15 Minutes
Just as the Emmett Till murder helped inspire protests in the civil rights era, which in turn led to the passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation, the protests over policing in 2020 already have sparked r...
17 June 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Minneapolis school board’s vote to remove police from public schools arose not only from protests over the police killing of George Floyd, but also from a long-term advocacy project to end the so-called school-to-...
The Washington Post
Gregory Scruggs
16 June 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Seattle's police-free street encampment that sprang up during protests over policing abuses, a mostly unarmed group of volunteer "sentinels" has defused a number of potential problems while largely avoiding the use...
20 March 2020
Hamilton, Ohio, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
In Butler County, Ohio, law enforcement and jails are adapting quickly as the COVID19 pandemic continues on. They’re working with courts and judges to allow low-level and non-violent offenders to be released and have ...
March 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Rochester, NY, the Center for Teen Empowerment, a nonprofit that trains youth in community organizing, personal development, and anti-violence, is working to bring kids off the street and into safety. The program, ...
23 February 2020
Denver, Colorado, United States
Radio
800-1500 Words
The Denver, Colorado, district attorney’s office assigned an investigator to methodically search for signs that domestic abusers possessed prohibited guns, and then uses that information to take the guns away. Firearm...
23 January 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
For 28 years, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, stripped more than 100 people of U.S. citizenship and deported them for their direct participation in Nazi war crimes. The most successful ...
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