blog post California’s Leading Role in Providing Criminal Defense to the Poor By Heather Harris Mar 16, 2023 Mar 16, 2023 ... Research indicates that people represented by public defenders experience better outcomes: they are less likely to be convicted and they ...
Fact Sheet Arrests in California By Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes, Brandon Martin, Andrew Skelton Feb 13, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 ... California's overall arrest rate was historically low in 2021. Law enforcement agencies in California reported roughly 793,000 total arrests in ...
Report Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Arrests in California By Deepak Premkumar, Thomas Sloan, Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes Feb 7, 2023 Feb 9, 2023 ... Unique individual identifiers allow us to determine whether and when an individual has previously been cited, arrested, convicted, ...
Fact Sheet Crime Trends in California By Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin Oct 5, 2022 Oct 19, 2022 ... In 2021, aggravated assaults were 67% of reported violent crimes; 24% were robberies, 8% were rape, and 1% were homicides. California's violent ...
blog post Crime Trends in Context By Magnus Lofstrom Jun 30, 2022 Jun 30, 2022 ... Magnus Lofstrom, policy director in criminal justice and a senior fellow at PPIC, provided insights from research at Congressman Mark ...
Report Understanding the Effects of School Funding By Julien Lafortune May 18, 2022 ... political “conviction” a state's populace has around improving its schools rather than the effect of any realized spending changes (e.g., Greene 2020).
blog post Historic Law Aims to Improve Police Accountability and Transparency By Deepak Premkumar, Shannon McConville Feb 25, 2022 Feb 25, 2022 ... Prior to SB 2, a felony conviction should have disqualified an officer ... Most arrests of law enforcement officers resulted in convictions ...
blog post After Decreases in 2020, Both Property and Violent Crimes Are Up in 2021 By Magnus Lofstrom, Brandon Martin Dec 14, 2021 Preliminary data from four major California cities—Los Angeles, Oakland, San Diego, and San Francisco—show that property and violent crime numbers have ...
Report Police Use of Force and Misconduct in California By Deepak Premkumar, Alexandria Gumbs, Shannon McConville, Renee Hsia Oct 26, 2021 For the incidents where the criminal case outcome is known (over 80% of them), officers were convicted in 76 percent of cases—a majority of which were ...
Report Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Stops By Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes, Brandon Martin, Deepak Premkumar Oct 13, 2021 Recent debate over police reforms has centered on how law enforcement engages with people of color, prompted by continuing concerns over racial inequities ...