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Rita Ruins Everything Case No. 07 · The Circleville Letters The Circleville Letters Were Never Anonymous. The Writer Was Always…
Key Points Michigan Has Not Reformed Michigan has not eliminated cash bail and has no statewide reform law limiting it….
Supervision, Psychology & Criminal Justice Reform Quick Answer Probation often creates a psychological “wait mode” — a chronic state of…
Criminal Justice & Institutional Accountability More than 11,000 rape kits sat untested in Detroit for up to twenty-five years. The…
Key Points The Bill Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act on March 12,…
Key Points The Myth The “Twinkie Defense” never argued that junk food caused two murders. Dan White’s attorneys used his…
Key Points Scale Between 2019 and 2021, at least 178 people were killed by police responding to mental health crises,…
Facial recognition systems operate by analyzing the geometric features of a face and comparing them against stored images in databases such as driver’s license records, mugshot repositories, or other government and commercial image collections.
The output is not a single identification. It is typically a ranked list of candidates based on similarity scores.
Key Points The Proposal ADM File No. 2019-40 would allow judicial officers to preside remotely subject to geographic limits, continuous…
Consumer Fraud Most contractor fraud cases do not collapse because the facts are absent. They collapse because the record does…
