Guest Commentary: The Crime and Homelessness Conundrum – Why Enlarging County Jail Isn’t Helpful
By Mark Dempsey My email to Sacramento County: Supervisors, Spending a billion dollars to enlarge the County…
Authors Charge Federal Judges Contributing to Increasing Crime Rates
By Leslie Acevedo CHICAGO, IL – Alison Siegler and Brandon Buskey, in a published opinion piece in…
Guest Commentary: Does Sacramento Really Need a Bigger Jail?
by Mark Dempsey SACRAMENTO, CA – By my count, a proposal to expand the downtown County jail…
Podcast Discusses Issues with Policing ‘Hotspots’ and Their Recent Increase in Popularity
By Ankita Joshi WASHINGTON, DC – Over the last couple years, many cities in the U.S. have…
Data Shows Drastic Shift in San Francisco Crime Rates during Pandemic, Analysis Details Current Trends – Crime Rate Not as High as Public Believes
By Alex Jimenez SAN FRANCISCO, CA – While public perception would describe San Francisco as crime ridden…
Study Shows San Francisco Crime Rates Considerably Lower Compared to Sacramento, Where Tough-On-Crime Policies Failing
By Ankita Joshi SAN FRANCISCO, CA – While opponents of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s progressive…
San Francisco and Los Angeles District Attorneys Under Fire for Pandemic Crime
(Courtesy Chesa Boudin) By Ankita Joshi SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES, CA – KQED’s Marissa Lagos unpacked the effects…
Study Reveals Policies Created in Response to COVID-19 Decreased Crime, Arrests, Jail Population
By Michael Wheeler, Karisa Cortez, Angie Madrid and Joe Cormac SACRAMENTO, CA —Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, local…
San Francisco Crime Rates – Pandemic Crime Not Fault of Politicians?
By Paige Laver SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The COVID pandemic has changed and altered so many people’s…
Study Finds That Over a 10-year Period, 34 States Reduced Both Crime and Incarceration
Some still argue that increasing imprisonment is necessary to reduce crime. Data show otherwise. By Cameron Kimble…
