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During the four-year term of President Donald J. Trump, 893 Black Americans were killed by police officers. Most of the involved officers were white. Black Americans were killed by police at a rate twice that of White Americans. Many of…

Indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton has long been a political embarrassment to the State of Texas. Paxton, a self-described Trump Republican, has served as Texas’ top law enforcement officer for the last five(5) years while on bond for Felony Securities…

America’s incarceration systems, both jails, and prisons are in dire need of reform. This past year, we have addressed many wide-ranging need for reform throughout the nation’s criminal justice system from arrest through incarceration (here, here, and here). We would…

There are roughly 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States.
 
In the wake of the February 2020 murder of George Floyd and a series of other recent high profile police homicides against African-Americans, a recent Gallup poll shows…

A pandemic brings out the best in most people and the worst in some.
 
In 1918, during the Spanish flu pandemic, Oklahoma City public health Commissioner John Duke was determined to save as many people as possible from the flu…

Many legal scholars believe that closing arguments are rightly considered the most important phase in a criminal trial. It is the last opportunity defense counsel will have to tip the scale in their favor. Defense attorneys approach closing in different…

Michael Selyem is the Deputy District Attorney in San Bernardino County, California. He is the county’s “chief gang prosecutor.”
 
Selyem, a white man, is currently on paid administrative leave at the direction of San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike…