by cjpcenter_135ydg | Dec 22, 2019 | CJPC News, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director The American system of criminal justice is irreparably broken. There is no way to reform a system that cannibalizes the souls of all who have the misfortune to be touched by it. Those two simple truths led Carolina Justice Police...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | Nov 7, 2019 | CJPC News, Policing
The City of Raleigh is facing another lawsuit because it refuses to take the issue of police accountability seriously. According to WRAL, a 26-year-old woman claims that she was inappropriately touched by RPD officer K.E. Van Althius. A retired police officer who...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | Oct 13, 2019 | CJPC News, Policing
(Read full story from the Public News Service) Police officers in Wilson County are taking steps to reduce the region’s high incarceration rate by issuing citations to people for nonviolent misdemeanors, rather than arresting them. Criminal-justice reform...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | Oct 11, 2019 | CJPC News, Policing
Emancipate NC, a project of Carolina Justice Policy Center (CJPC), is a statewide criminal justice policy center. In reviewing the cell phone footage of the incident involving 18 year old girl, T’Ziah Kelly, we cannot find any justifiable reason for the level of...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 13, 2019 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform, Policing
The trial of Cameron Broadwell (pictured above) ended with a guilty plea. He will not serve any time in prison for terrorizing Kyron Hinton, but he will never work as a law enforcement officer in North Carolina again. He will do 200 hours of community service and...
by cjpcenter_135ydg | May 12, 2019 | CJPC News, Criminal Justice Reform, Policing
by Dawn Blagrove, Executive Director I was 18 years old the first time I can recall seeing a law enforcement officer stand trial for using the power of a badge to terrorize a Black person. The video of Rodney King’s dehumanizing and brutal beating happened on my 17th...
