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Crime & Courts March 21, 2024 - 7:30 am

Majority of charges against Kansas Holistic Defenders’ clients get dismissed, report shows

by Mackenzie Clark

The attorneys of Kansas Holistic Defenders saw two-thirds of their clients’ misdemeanor charges dismissed or poised for likely dismissal from September 2022 through September 2023.

Lawrence news March 14, 2023 - 7:11 pm

Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council evaluates racial and ethnic disparities work group

by Mackenzie Clark

As Douglas County leaders weigh possibly changing or eliminating the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council’s racial and ethnic disparities work group, some members of the council want the work to get more attention.

Crime & Courts January 26, 2023 - 1:56 pm

Justice Matters to hold meeting on Vera Institute study of incarceration in Douglas County

by Lawrence Times

Lawrence advocacy group Justice Matters invites community members to an educational meeting about a study that highlighted stark racial disparities in incarceration and found that most bookings into the Douglas County jail are for minor, nonviolent charges, among other conclusions.

Crime & Courts December 18, 2022 - 1:03 pm

Vera Institute report on Douglas County jail spotlights racial disparities, charges driving incarceration

by Mackenzie Clark

Almost one out of every three Black men ages 25-54 living in Douglas County were booked into the jail between 2017 and 2021. 
That number is among findings in a recent report by the Vera Institute of Justice examining incarceration here.

Molly Adams/Lawrence Times
Crime & Courts August 11, 2022 - 4:54 pm

‘This really smacks of harassment’: Study showing disparities in law enforcement prompts Lawrence community members to respond

by Mackenzie Clark

Researchers concluded that there is not widespread bias-based policing in Douglas County, but each law enforcement agency has areas of racial disparity and concern. Members of the Lawrence community have offered some feedback on how they can begin to improve.

Crime & Courts August 8, 2022 - 6:00 am

Black drivers are nearly 3 times more likely than white drivers to get stopped by law enforcement in Douglas County, study confirms

by Mackenzie Clark

Researchers have finished a draft report from a long-running law enforcement contact study, which has confirmed that Black drivers are 2.73 times more likely to get stopped than white drivers in Douglas County, and drivers of color are 1.72 times more likely to be searched.

Crime & Courts June 14, 2022 - 2:01 pm

Douglas County is incarcerating Black people at 6.5 times the rate of white people

by Mackenzie Clark

Black people are booked into the Douglas County jail at almost four times the rate of white people, and the incarceration rate of Black people in Douglas County is 6.5 times the rate of white people. 

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Crime & Courts January 11, 2022 - 9:58 pm

Douglas County’s Behavioral Health Court helps those with mental illness break the cycle of incarceration

by Andrea Albright

Members of Douglas County’s Behavioral Health Court shared how the program has progressed during the past four years and how administrators might further improve the program in the future during a meeting of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council on Tuesday.

Crime & Courts September 15, 2021 - 11:54 am

Douglas County Sheriff’s Office unveils updated jail data dashboard; DA’s dashboard in the works

by Mackenzie Clark

Eighty percent of the people incarcerated in the Douglas County jail are there pretrial — meaning they haven’t been convicted and are presumed innocent. That’s just one takeaway from the inmate population data dashboard from the sheriff’s office. 

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Crime & Courts August 10, 2021 - 1:13 pm

People of Color almost twice as likely to be searched when stopped in Douglas County, research shows

by Mackenzie Clark

People of Color who are stopped by law enforcement in Douglas County are searched or frisked nearly twice as often as white people, an ongoing study shows. That ratio doesn’t change when the search is the officer’s choice.

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