Prosecutors in the Passing Lane: Racial Disparities, Public Safety, and Prosecutorial Declinations of Pretextual Stops

Innovation is a word we typically do not associate with the American judicial system, a network of 2,000 judicial districts across the United States.

“The reality is the justice system in America hasn't done much innovative in the last 400 years," Jared Fishman told me in a recent interview. “We're still using a very similar process for addressing problems. And over the last 40 and 50 years, in particular, as we've been sending problems like addiction and poverty and mental health into the criminal legal space, we haven't actually changed how we do business.”