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Read Crime Dropped Significantly in 2024 by Vice President Jason Pye
Read Election-Year Fearmongering About Crime Doesn’t Match Reality by Vice President Jason Pye
Read Violent Crime Is Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels by Vice President Jason Pye
Read A Legislative Fix to Court-Made Injustice: Why We Support the Ending Qualified Immunity Act by Founder Shana-Tara O’Toole
Read The Legal Blessing of Racist Policing: How Two Supreme Court cases have empowered police to abuse Black Americans by Clause 40 Foundation Contributing Editor Jonathan Blanks
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WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON NOW:
An exploration on how the “harmless error” doctrine isn’t so harmless–in fact, it’s inappropriately blessing a significant amount of unconstitutional behavior–particularly on the part of prosecutors.
WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON NOW:
We are busy exploring how the judicial system can play more of a role in ensuring prosecutorial accountability in its courtrooms and what structural incentives and disincentives exist to promote a culture of prosecutorial integrity and restraint.
WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON NOW:
Consistent with our view that criminalizing conduct isn’t always the first or best solution to a serious problem, we are looking into civil law remedies to address instances of proven prosecutorial misconduct.