by Paul Brakke | Dec 19, 2017 | American Justice Reform, Fixing the Criminal Justice System
Prosecutors wield extraordinary power, but just as easily as they can put true criminals behind bars, they can destroy the lives of innocent defendants. Prosecutors are expected to seek truth and justice, and it is important to support prosecutors who are dedicated to...
by Paul Brakke | Dec 17, 2017 | American Justice Reform, Fixing the Criminal Justice System
As a society, we don’t pay enough attention to what incarceration costs to the families of the incarcerated. Generally, collateral damage refers to unintended damage after a military operation, such as the destruction of buildings and properties not related to the...
by Paul Brakke | Dec 15, 2017 | American Justice Reform, Fixing the Criminal Justice System
One out of every 32 Americans — approximately 7.2 million adults as of this writing — is on probation, on parole, or in prison at any given time. About 2.3 million Americans are in prison, nearly one in one hundred adults. Our country has the highest rate of...
by Paul Brakke | Dec 12, 2017 | American Justice Reform, The citizen-Police Divide
The Many Hearings a Cop Faces to Determine Guilt or Innocence Many citizens commonly think that the police are getting off easy after an officer shoots a citizen and is judged to not be at fault. While they attribute this result to a biased criminal justice system...
by Paul Brakke | Dec 8, 2017 | American Justice Reform, The citizen-Police Divide
Since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by the police in 2014, there has been a growing anger against the police, especially after several more police shootings and other arrest incidents led to deaths. The resulting protests and riots have, in...
by Paul Brakke | Dec 1, 2017 | American Justice Reform, The citizen-Police Divide
Why There Is a Wrong Perception about the Number of Shootings of Citizen By Cops The Real Number is Much Lower Today, there is an apparent uptick in the number of fatal shootings of citizens by cops. However, as discussed in my book Cops Aren’t Such Bad Guys, this...
