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Police Accountability Research

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 Everyday Subversion of the Constitution: Executive Agency Detailees in Congress Violate the Constitution and Deny Americans the Right to a Truly Representative Government by DPI Staff

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

Read Let Us Begin: Reflections from 7 Decades of Violence and Indifference Towards the Lives of Black People by Ron LeGrand

Read Reflections on Cacerolazo: A Call to Reimagine the Policing of America on Its Birthday by Billy Easley II

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.