Abbie VanSickle
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Black girls top list of teens hurt by the police
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an 85-year-old man heading home from church. → Read More
Police Hurt Thousands of Teens — Many Are Black Girls
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an 85-year-old man heading home from church. The next thing 15-year-old Brianna Stuart knew, she was lying dazed on the pavement, she said in an interview. The driver alerted 911 about the accident. This… → Read More
Violent Encounters With Police Send Thousands of People to the ER Every Year
That's probably an undercount. But data from San Jose offers a glimpse of what the national scale of police violence might be. → Read More
“That Could Have Been Me”: The People Derek Chauvin Choked Before George Floyd
They describe an officer quick to use force and callous about their pain. → Read More
Police Use Painful Dog Bites To Make People Obey
Police are allowed to use “pain compliance.” But experts say dog bites are too unpredictable and severe. → Read More
A New Tactic To Fight Coronavirus: Send The Homeless From Jails To Hotels
California and New York City are booking hotels so homeless people released from jail don’t accelerate the pandemic. → Read More
California’s jails are so bad some inmates beg to go to prison instead
California's justice reforms have reduced the state prison population, but many county jails are struggling with more mentally ill inmates and violence. → Read More
Sacramento County Jails Struggle With Long-Term Inmates
Effort to cut prison overcrowding puts some jails in crisis. → Read More
When Cops Misbehave, Who Has the Right to Know?
A California court case could unravel decades of police secrecy. → Read More
Crime once plagued San Joaquin County, but now its jail has empty beds. Here's what it did right
San Joaquin County's experiments with collaborative courts and other justice reforms demonstrate how an area struggling with poverty and crime has adapted to California's prison downsizing. → Read More
California transformed its justice system. But now crime is up, and critics want rollbacks
Amid changes in California's criminal justice system, crime has increased in recent years, sparking debate about the causes and giving ammunition to those leading a new effort to roll back some of the reforms. → Read More
How we analyzed California's crime rates in an era of justice reform
An analysis of California's crime rates since the state began enacting major justice reforms in 2011 relied on several sources. → Read More
The Great California Prison Experiment
Crime is up. The mystery is why. → Read More
Through Pardons and Commutations, California Governor Jerry Brown Changed his Legacy on Criminal Justice
The California governor's clemency decisions focus on people facing what he seems to view as systemic injustices. But his record on pardons wasn't always so progressive. → Read More
Neko Wilson Freed in Test of California’s Felony Murder Law
A California inmate facing murder charges is being released thanks to a law recently signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. → Read More
Big spending by George Soros, liberal groups fails to sway D.A. races in California
California voters appeared to reject liberal challengers in three closely watched district attorneys races, delivering a sharp defeat to George Soros and other wealthy donors who spent millions of dollars attempting to elect liberal prosecutors. → Read More
Prosecutor ‘Reformers’ Falter in California
Candidates backed by Soros, others are still pressing ahead in other parts of the country. → Read More
California’s local D.A. races become big-dollar battleground in nation’s justice debate
New York billionaire George Soros and other wealthy donors are spending millions of dollars in a handful of California races for district attorney, part of a years-long campaign by liberal groups to reshape the nation’s criminal justice system. → Read More
Prosecutor Elections Now a Front Line in the Justice Wars
In most district attorney elections, the campaign playbook is clear: Win over the local cops and talk tough on crime. But in California this year, the strategy is being turned on its head. Wealthy donors are spending millions of dollars to back would-be prosecutors who want to reduce incarceration, crack down on police misconduct and revamp a bail system they contend unfairly imprisons poor… → Read More
A gang member allegedly killed a cop nine days after he got out of jail. Are California's justice reforms to blame?
Many law enforcement leaders have blamed last year’s killing of a Whittier police officer on recent changes to California's justice system designed to reduce the number of people behind bars. But records show a far more complex chain of events leading to the slaying. → Read More