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Featured Blog Posts

City Demonstrates How a “48-Hour Brain Dump” Can Build Trust in Police

How Las Vegas police earned the trust of the community and the media
In Syracuse, A Child Can Be Thrown in Solitary for Singing Whitney Houston

A NYCLU lawsuit exposes a nightmarish jail where children are kept for months in isolation for minor misbehavior.
A Week In, the Pardon Snowden Debate Keeps Heating Up

Despite government attempts to discredit him, the arguments in favor of Snowden and his whistleblowing continue to mount.
Unprecedented and Unlawful: The NSA’s “Upstream” Surveillance

Congress has never engaged in a meaningful public debate about Upstream surveillance — but it should.