NPR recently aired an interview with Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s newest District Attorney, who narrowly won the race on a platform of radically overhauling how that office handles crime and punishment.
In 2018, leaked body camera footage showed an Asheville, North Carolina, police officer beating and using a stun gun on pedestrian Johnnie Rush. Last month, former officer Chris Hickman pleaded guilty to assaulting Rush and received a sentence of 12 months of probation with no jail time.
60 Minutes recently profiled a program at the University of Wisconsin Law School in which survivors of serious, violent crime meet with the responsible parties for face-to-face dialogue after extensive individual preparation.