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Bookmark or Share- As Crime Surges, Roll Back of Tough-on-Crime Policies Faces Resistance ...With violent crime rates rising and elections looming, progressive prosecutors are facing resistance to their plans to roll back stricter crime policies of the 1990s.
- A Timeline of the Rise and Fall of 'Tough on Crime' Drug SentencingIn an odd twist, deficit hawk Republicans are fighting with tough-on-crime Democrats to pass legislation for fairer, less aggressive prison sentencing.
- ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Policies Are at Odds With the Presumption of InnocenceTough-on-crime policies and the aggressive, high-volume police and prosecution practices they demand also obstruct true justice and drive wrongful convictions by backlogging courts, overwhelming public defenders, holding people in jail for months before trial, and incentivizing guilty pleas — whether accurate or not.
- Will backtracking on criminal justice reform cut crime? - USA TODAYMost Americans (58%), meanwhile, now think the country is not tough enough on crime, a reversal from just a few years earlier (41%), according to public opinion polling from Gallup.
- Why the U.S. Is Heading Toward New Era of Mass IncarcerationIn response, many Democrats are touting their own tough-on-crime message. They’re slamming Republicans as the ones who are soft on crime and not “backing the blue,” as well as attacking...
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