AI and Ethics

Authors: PCE, PCE’s National Best Practices Committee (NBP)

Prosecutor offices across the nation are taking thoughtful approaches to both counteracting the concerns causing employees to resign, and enhancing the rewarding factors inspiring them to stay. This paper presents a number of these successful methods.

Author: PERF

This report explores DA-driven initiatives that have the support of law enforcement members in their jurisdictions—programs that go beyond DAs merely reviewing cases presented by police and then offering plea bargains or prosecuting those cases in court.

This project was conceived by PERF Deputy Director Jennifer Sommers, a former longtime state and county prosecutor in New York. She has long believed that “effective collaboration between police and prosecutors is the key to moving from good to great,” and partnered with Kristine Hamann to showcase how jurisdictions across the country are putting that principle into practice. Together, they identified examples of innovative, prosecution-led partnerships from around the country that are strengthening public safety and advancing justice.

Authors: NBP and PCE

Through research, innovation, collaboration, and outreach, prosecutor offices are developing many effective methods for investigating and litigating these violent crimes, as well as preventing future incidents. This paper provides an overview of some of the successful approaches being used by prosecutors around the country.

Preventing and Prosecuting Gun Violence Part 2

Ben Struhl, Executive Director, Crime and Justice Policy Lab (CJP) at the University of Pennsylvania

Preventing and Prosecuting Gun Violence Part 2

Linda Ford, Counsel to the Legal Training Unit and Senior Trial Counsel, New York County District Attorney’s Office

Preventing and Prosecuting Gun Violence Part 1: Law Enforcement and Community

Assistant Ramsey County Attorney Derek Fitch, Ramsey County Attorney’s Office, Minnesota

Preventing and Prosecuting Gun Violence Part 1: Law Enforcement and Community

Deputy DA Michael Vidmar, Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office, California