It was an honor to write alongside Georgetown Law colleagues Christy Lopez & Paul Butler for the Washington Post Opinions piece on ideas for improving public safety. Alternative first responders & a locally elected DA are critical steps in making DC safer.

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Can American policing be fixed? w/Ras J. Baraka Brian O'Hara Rosa Brooks
Frederick Kaufman lunches w/ the QAnon Shaman
Mya Frazier meets your automated landlord
Irina Dumitrescu on decoding Mary, Queen of Scots
+ Lauren Oyler much more in the April issue

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Read Vital City friends and contributors Barry Friedman [email protected], Christy Lopez, Tracey Meares and Patrick Sharkey in Harper's, answering the question 'Can American policing be fixed?' harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

From Christy Lopez: Why the Justice Department’s report on Minneapolis policing is such a watershed wapo.st/44e8TL4

The short version of my take on how the Civil Rights Division’s police findings reports have change post-George Floyd. #protestsmatter washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…

Texas’ #HB7 , passed by the House and now pending before the Senate, proposes to create a “Texas Border Force” under the Texas Rangers. A thread about Ranger history and why this bill should worry us all. #txlege /1

Read Christy Lopez's new piece for Vital City on why many local policing units like Memphis' Scorpion persist despite the serious damage they often do. vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-d…

4. The research is clear - violence clusters in a small group of any population. Black communities are not anti-police, everyone wants to be safe. They are against police behavior which is overly aggressive, antagonistic and treats everyone like criminals. /5

New: I wrote about the long and ugly history of elite 'crime suppression' police units for the NY Times.

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SCORPION, CRASH, GRU: These special police units seize guns and drugs, but don’t keep the peace — they keep people terrified washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/…

OPINION | 'It’s time to recognize the harm [crime-suppression units] cause — and put an end to them and the approach to #policing they embody,' writes #GeorgetownLaw Professor Christy Lopez Center for Innovations in Community Safety in The Washington Post Washington Post Opinions: bit.ly/3jh7dhQ

Hey 3Ls Georgetown Law and elsewhere--This is a great opportunity to work with DC Justice Lab and it closes in two days!

It’s again worth noting that the revised criminal code doesn’t take effect until Oct. 2025. The current spike in gun crimes is happening under the current criminal laws and harsh penalties, indicating that those penalties don’t have a deterrent effect.

So proud of my dear friend Kelli Evans and excited that my home state will soon have the good fortune to have her on the State Supreme Court!

Amazing opportunity for anyone interested in civil rights litigation. What Sharon doesn't mention is that she's one of the best attorneys you could ever hope to work with. The location is probably far from most of you, but if you're looking for work/life balance, look no further.