A report by the ACLU of Pennsylvania illustrates how the General Assembly passes duplicative offenses and harsher penalties in every legislative session.
Interactions between young people and police don’t occur just on the streets of America. They are happening in our nation’s K-12 schools. Today, some 51% of all public schools have sworn law enforcement officers, 91% of whom carry firearms.
On December 14, 2015, the ACLU of Pennsylvania released a report analyzing civil asset forfeiture practices in Cumberland County that showed law enforcement has kept large amounts of forfeited equipment–even three gaming systems and four video games–for its own internal use, on the grounds that t
On October 19, 2015, the ACLU-PA released a new report analyzing civil asset forfeiture in Montgomery County that showed that 53 percent of people facing civil asset forfeiture were African-American, although African-Americans make up only 9 percent of the county's population.
On June 2, 2015, the ACLU-PA released a new report documenting the impact of Pennsylvania’s unfair civil asset forfeiture laws and the aggressive enforcement of these laws by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.
Originally published in November 2013, Beyond Zero Tolerance was well-received in Pennsylvania and beyond. We have expanded and updated the report for 2015.