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Don't Let Maryland Return to a Failed Crime Strategy

Why spend almost 17 times more to lock people up than to prevent crime in the first place?
Major Neill Franklin (Ret.) explains the failure of this strategy

Why is Mass Incarceration Moving to the Suburbs?

"During a period when crime rates are historically low, you would expect to see incarceration rates dropping... That is what we’re seeing in some places. In others, there’s a surprising trend of growth, which raises a question of whether this continued growth of mass incarceration is really making communities safer."

Ex-NYPD Officers Back Marijuana Legalization After Careers Policing Street-Level Users

"We need to free up police to actually do police work." - Deputy Inspector Corey Pegues (Ret.)

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Fmr. Assistant District Attorney Allison Watson

Knoxville, TN

"“We have law enforcement, judges, prosecutors standing up and speaking out; we have doctors sponsoring medical marijuana bills and government officials engaging in civil disobedience…. what else do we need to tell us it is time to end prohibition?"

Fmr. U.S. Attorney Carter Stewart

New Albany, OH

"Prosecutors play a key role in addressing racial disparities, we are the ones who have the discretion to determine whether charges will be brought, what charges those will be and what sentences we will ask for, so prosecutors should be leaders in terms of addressing racial disparity and setting the tone."

Sir Robert Peel founded modern policing in 1829 by establishing the London Metropolitan Police Force. Peel's commissioners developed the Peelian Principles, a set of ideals that defined the ethical requirements police officers must abide by in order to do their job effectively.

Read the nine Peelian Principles

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