PM Stories
Our False Promise of Justice Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, Democracy Journal
There’s overwhelming evidence that the criminal-justice system is racist. Here’s the proof. Radley Balko, Washington Post
The People Who Undermine Progressive Prosecutors Rashad Robinson, New York Times
The Case for Federal Criminal Courts – and Sentencing Reform The Crime Report
COVID-19 Has Delayed Programs That Texas Prisoners Need to Get Out Michael Barajas, Texas Observer
‘I’m scared every day’: Correctional officers, inmates say Texas prisons botched COVID-19 response Tanya Eiserer and Jason Trahan, WFAA
Families Hold Vigil For Inmates Inside Colorado’s Largest Prison, Home To The State’s Biggest Coronavirus Outbreak Sam Brasch, Colorado Public Radio
The First Year Out Stephanie Clifford, Marie Claire
After controversy, man convicted of killing officer paroled (Virginia) Sarah Rankin, AP News
AM Stories
Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point Wesley Lowery, The Atlantic
Minnesota’s Decades-Long Failure to Confront Police Abuse Ricardo Lopez, The New Yorker
The Trump administration abandoned a proven way to reduce police violence Chiraag Bains and Dana Mulhauser, Washington Post
Police unions and police misconduct: What the research says about the connection Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post
Minneapolis Police Department is withdrawing from union contract negotiations, chief says CBS News
LA police union spent big in local elections. Some politicians now shun the money Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times
Police have killed 866 people in LA County since 2000 Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Activists Call On Police To End Use of ‘Less-Lethal’ Force City News Service
Call to ‘defund’ police in Baltimore and elsewhere raises the question: What would that look like? Justin Fenton, Baltimore Sun
Camden disbanded its police department and built a new one. Can others learn from it? Allison Steele and Sean Collins Walsh, Philadelphia Inquirer
Chicago has nearly tripled per capita police spending since 1964, data show Carlos Ballesteros, Injustice Watch
The Struggle to Abolish the Police Is Not New Garrett Felber, Boston Review
The Origins of the ‘Police Riot’ Ed Kilgore, New York Magazine
Everything Could Be Free Greg Afinogenov, n+1 Magazine
‘Cops’ Is Off the Air. But Will We Ever Get It Out of Our Heads? James Poniewozik, New York Times
‘Live PD’ reality show shutting down after police protests, Javier Ambler death Austin American-Statesman