Dara Lind
Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Dara Lind
When police officers get prosecuted, convictions are rare — and prison time is even rarer.
Most police officers don’t go to jail for the deaths of civilians. A top civil rights lawyer explains why
Criminal justice reformers are still waiting for an apology.
One little-noticed passage in Clinton’s speech shows just how quickly Democrats have shifted on criminal justice reform.
His comments about Baltimore recognize that protesters aren’t just criminals. But he’s still asking them to act better than the police they’re protesting.
This is exactly the sort of thing she wants to change about the Department of Justice.
Ta-Nehisi Coates points out what David Simon and others have forgotten.
The newspaper sponsored a striking installation that celebrates immigrants — but it shouldn’t assume they were “living in the shadows” to begin with.
Europe’s response isn’t perfect — but it’s much better than what the US did last year.
We shouldn’t expect individual officers to be able to rebuild community trust all on their own.