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News and Commentary

Solving racial disparities in policing -- Featured: Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Sandra Susan Smith, Alexandra Natapoff, Andrew Crespo, Nancy Gertner, Christopher Winship

Rooting Out Racial Bias -- Featured: Felix Owusu

And now, the way forward -- Featured: Danielle Allen and Sandra Susan Smith

Racial justice leaders are reeling from the 'hypocrisy' in the police response to the US Capitol riots -- Featured: Cornell William Brooks

What Trump’s pardons say about criminal justice -- Op-ed by Nancy Gertner and Dean A. Strang

Burrell case exposes need for reform of jailhouse snitch prosecutions -- Featured: Alexandra Natapoff

What Would Society Look Like Without Police? -- Featured: Sandra Susan Smith

Incarcerated people are suffering from covid-19 more than most. They should be among the first vaccinated. -- Op-ed by Danielle Allen

Center for Policing Equity Co-Founder Discusses Reimagining Community Safety at Kennedy School Event

We’ve seen these proposed Boston police reforms before — they don’t work -- Op-ed by Sandra Susan Smith

News Archive
Events

Reimagining Community Safety: A Program in Criminal Justice Speaker Series

Reimagining Community Safety #14: Anti Police-Terror Project with Cat Brooks (3/3/21)

Reimagining Community Safety #15: A Discussion with MA State Senator Will Brownsberger about Police Reform (3/10/21)

Online Documentary Premiere: Racially Charged: America’s Misdemeanor Problem (3/11/21)

Reimagining Community Safety #16: A Discussion with Wendy Still, Alameda County Probation Chief, about Progressive Probation Reform (3/24/21)

Reimagining Community Safety #17: Kandace Montgomery, Miski Noor & Oluchi Omeoga, co-founders of Black Visions Collective (3/31/21)

Reimagining Community Safety #18: The CAHOOTS model with Tim Black (4/7/21)

Reimagining Community Safety #19: A Discussion about Puente Human Rights Movement with Council Member Carlos Garcia (4/14/21)

Past Events
Research

A conversation with Yanilda González about her new book, Authoritarian Police in Democracy

Q&A with Sandra Susan Smith: Understanding injustices and striving to make lives better

Alexandra Natapoff on how our massive misdemeanor system makes America more unequal

Triple Disadvantage: Neighborhood Networks of Everyday Urban Mobility and Violence in U.S. Cities -- New article by Rob Sampson

Civic Responses to Police Violence -- Working paper by Desmond Ang and John Tebes

Publications

Executive Sessions

Policy Topics

Gabriella Priest joins HKS as the new PCJ Program Director

We are thrilled to announce that Gabriella Priest is joining Harvard Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PCJ) as Program Director, effective February 22nd.  For almost two decades, Priest has worked tirelessly to improve the penal system, partnering with practitioners, academics, policymakers, and impacted individuals and their families in research and evidenced-based practices to develop holistic approaches to penal system reform. Read full announcement...

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