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Homeward Bound
What are your thoughts about the Family Reentry Pilot Program and what do you…
Mar 24, 2015
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Building trust through trauma-informed policing
For many victims and witnesses, a police officer is the first criminal justice…
Mar 20, 2015
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Embracing a public health approach to justice reform
My adolescence and young adulthood were largely shaped by negative forces:…
Mar 19, 2015
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Faces of an era
For more years than we care to remember, politicians had just one choice when…
Mar 17, 2015
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Avoiding 'profiling by proxy'
When an individual calls the police and makes false or ill-informed claims of…
Mar 13, 2015
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Community policing post-9/11
The events of September 11th, 2001 were a game changer for law enforcement, as…
Mar 12, 2015
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State would cover all costs of raising the age in New York
Last month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his budget for the coming…
Mar 09, 2015

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An interdisciplinary approach to keeping families together
As highlighted in WNYC’s Breaking Point series, the combination of poverty with…
Mar 05, 2015
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New funding for victim services could enhance racial equity
The federal appropriations bill passed last December raised the funding for…
Mar 03, 2015
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Bipartisan bill is critical to caring for youth and families in crisis
In late January, the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act…
Feb 27, 2015
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