Darcel Clark, the Democratic incumbent, emphasizes a balance between public safety and justice. Her primary opponent, Tess Cohen, is challenging her from the left, focusing on alternatives to jail.
Tag: Criminal Justice
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Two Black Native Americans Were Arrested. The Law Sees Only One as Indian.
A Supreme Court ruling barred Oklahoma from prosecuting crimes committed by Native Americans on tribal land, but some Black tribal members are still being prosecuted because they lack “Indian blood.”
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Can a State Takeover Fix the Paterson, N.J., Police Department?
A string of police shootings and abuse in Paterson, N.J., led the state attorney general to seize control of the department.
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DeSantis Steps Up Attacks on Trump, Hitting Him on Crime and Covid
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida vowed to repeal the First Step Act, a Trump-era criminal justice law, if elected president. He called it “basically a jailbreak bill.”