Complaints about "defund the police" are back in the news. But if you look at actual expenditure data, it simply never happened.
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Reform Prosecutors Do Not Increase Crime: What the Data Tells Us
Election Day was a bad day for criminal legal reform. Not just because Trump's victory means that the Heritage Institute will try to harass if not oust reform prosecutors it dislikes, but because in many cases reform prosecutors lost directly in local elections (although there was a solid win or two). And they likely lost …
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Some Early Thoughts on Some Maybe-Overstated (By Me) Republican Threat to Local Reforms
For a while now, I've been seriously concerned about the threat that state-level preemption poses to local criminal legal reform efforts. But as I've dug into it more, my views have become ... confused. I don't think it is irrelevant, and it may still pose a dire threat to reforms. But also? Republican efforts to …
Prisons, Prosecutors, and the Politics of Punishment 