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New: I wrote about the long and ugly history of elite "crime suppression" police units for the NY Times. nytimes.com/2023/01/29/opi…

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

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

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…

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

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/…

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

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 harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

Thrilled that Georgetown Law’s Center for Innovations in Community Safety was able to organize this forum on crime and policing with Harper's Magazine. Center for Innovations in Community Safety

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…

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. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

Just listened to this really fantastic podcast on alternative first response. Made me proud of Center for Innovations in Community Safety and Tahir Anderson Duckett’s support of this work. Thanks Tradeoffs and The Marshall Project for this great effort. Cannot wait for the next episode! open.spotify.com/episode/07FyGz…

⁦Tahir Anderson Duckett⁩ sets out in this excellent NYTimes essay how a broader approach to public safety might have saved Sonya Massey’s life-and so many others. nytimes.com/2024/07/27/opi…

Great article by Tatyana Tandanpolie staff writer for Salon breaking down all the things that lead to police killings like that of Sonya Massey. salon.com/2024/07/27/son…

Thanks @_inquest for including my piece on DOJ’s police consent decrees in their series marking the ten year anniversary of Mike Brown’s killing and all that followed. Ferguson was a place that taught me how hard it is to make governments do better, but how critical it is to try.