The city’s first-in-the-nation “Safe Stores are Staffed Stores” ordinance requires major retailers to hire more employees and limit self-checkout, drawing praise from unions and pushback from grocers.
The measure is a response to federal immigration officers wearing masks while on duty. It requires most officers to show their faces and identify themselves, with limited exceptions for SWAT and undercover work.
Prosecutors say the mayor spent tens of thousands in taxpayer money on travel costs so she could spend personal time with an alleged affair partner.
Eighteen youths have been killed so far in 2025. Local leaders are turning to mentorship, counseling, and community programs to reach kids before violence does.
After 30 years patrolling the city’s toughest neighborhoods, Louie Wong now leads the San Francisco Police Officers Association with promises to pursue better pay and earlier retirement benefits.
Invoking the 1973 Home Rule Act, the president put MPD under federal control, activated National Guard troops and vowed to “take our capital back.”
After a strike slashed staffing by up to 60 percent, prisoners report 21-hour lockdowns in overheated cells
We could save billions by transforming these shuttered monuments to mass incarceration into something far more useful, humane and fiscally responsible. What the military did decades ago offers a proven blueprint.
With killings down by more than half from the 2021 peak, officials say progress is real but fragile, and deep-seated social issues remain unresolved.
By combining skills training, mental health support, and guaranteed job placement, the R.I.S.E. program offers a rare promise of post-release stability in Oklahoma.
Supervisors say the move is about transparency and civil rights, but federal officials warn it could compromise agent safety and operational security
The fallout from a strike by prison guards continues to paralyze prisons, forcing officials to suspend programs and rely on emergency deployments.
A new report shows homicides fell 17 percent in early 2025, but experts caution the trend is concentrated in a few major cities and not yet clearly linked to specific policy changes.
From politics to economics, closing old or bad prisons is not always straightforward. Even some incarcerated people have mixed emotions.
For incarcerated people, books can bring hope and new understanding, prepare them for jobs on the outside or simply help pass the time. But they’re often hard to get.
Over recent decades we’ve moved toward a much more effective and humane system to deal with youth crime. Evidence and research, not hyperbole and hysteria, should be guiding today’s debate.
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