Molly Bernstein
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After 50 years, voters support ending the destructive and discriminatory War on Drugs and treating drug use as a matter of public health.
A new poll shows broad support among likely voters for using police funds to create non-police emergency first responders to handle some emergency calls.
A new poll shows Harris County voter support for safe shelter for people experiencing homelessness and ensuring a right to legal counsel in evictions.
New polling in Bexar County reveals vast support for reforms to San Antonio policing, including increased transparency and alternative crisis response.
New polling shows wide support among Oregon voters for legislation that could lead to shorter sentences for domestic violence victims.
New polling shows that MD voters support ensuring children have a chance of release and are protected from coercive police interrogations.
Voters in New York and California—two states with large numbers of federal judicial vacancies—overwhelmingly support their senators recommending more civil rights lawyers and public defenders for the federal bench.
The old-school default of keeping people who are presumed innocent in jail unless they can afford bail has always been unfair, destructive, and dangerous, and that is especially true amid a pandemic that poses a unique threat to incarcerated people.