[ad_1] Jazmine Mapes has spent most of her life on the move. When she was a young child, she shuttled from city to city in Southern California as her parents broke up and got back together. Her dad was abusive, Mapes said, and around age 9, she and her younger brother started bouncing around the […]
Trump May Abandon Federal Police Oversight From New York to …
[ad_1] One of the Justice Department’s goals under President Joe Biden was to investigate some of the nation’s most troubled police agencies, including the ones responsible for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tyre Nichols. Two months into President Donald Trump’s second term, the prospect of federal oversight appears likely to disappear in […]
Homeless People Have Property Rights Too
[ad_1] This is The Marshall Project’s Closing Argument newsletter, a weekly deep dive into a key criminal justice issue. Want this delivered to your inbox? Subscribe to future newsletters. In the years Faith Kearns spent living unsheltered on Phoenix’s streets, she had all kinds of belongings taken during sweeps of the public areas where she […]