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For Texas Schoolchildren, Minor Misbehavior Can Mean Criminal Charges

Kristian Hernández, Asher Lehrer-Small, Clare Amari and Rosie Cima The New York Times
More students ages 10 to 13 are ending up in the justice system after vaping, making threats and lashing out at school. Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014...

Are Sheriffs Above the Law?

Linda Greenhouse The New York Review of Books
County sheriffs are useful to the right. They appear regularly as talking heads on conservative media, especially on the subject of immigration. Many vignettes of sheriffs in action are dramatic and alarming. But how representative are they?

How Police Culture Has Reshaped America

Cristina Beltrán The New York Times
America’s wars on drugs, crime, terrorism and more — along with our endless involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan — have created a weapons-saturated politics of policing, border control and mass incarceration. This reshaping is not one-dimensional...
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