Criminal Justice and Jails
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Thoughts on Police Reform from a UW Criminologist
With national and local attention rightly being focused on policing and criminal justice reform, it is…
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Important Steps to Police Reform
This post was first published today at Crosscut.com. It was co-authored by myself and Bernard Melekian,…
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Five things we should do to protect the public from chronic crime and persistent offenders in downtown
This post was first published earlier today at Crosscut.com. I’ve been thinking a lot about the…
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The Importance of Naming
Sometimes it is important to identify things, to name them, to call them out. Naming allows…
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The Hard Work of Innovative Policing
Two weeks ago I spoke on a panel at a White House forum on innovations in…
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The False Promise of the Death Penalty
Two high-profile death penalty trials are underway in King County Superior Court: the 2009 assassination of…
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Looking Upstream
The following article was sent out in my City View Newsletter, which you can sign up…
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Reflections on Ferguson and Seattle
The following article was posted today on Crosscut. It has been just over a week since the…
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Study Shows Gun Violence Begets Gun Violence
With a City Council vote in June of 2013, Seattle became the first city in the…
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Continued Efforts to End the Death Penalty in Washington
House Bill 1504, a bill that eliminates the death penalty in Washington, received a hearing in…