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Paul Butler, author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men, gave a powerful and provocative talk about race and policing in America last night as part of OSI-Baltimore’s Talking About Race series. Butler suggested that policing in the United States is structurally discriminatory and that efforts at reform short, though he acknowledges that such efforts are necessary, […]

OSI-Baltimore is a proud sponsor of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement‘s invitation-only Rumble Young Man Rumble Baltimore event, which begins tomorrow at City Hall and continues through Friday. Started by Open Society Foundations in 2008, the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA) is a national membership network that seeks to ensure the growth, sustainability, and […]

During a four-day sweep last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials targeted so-called sanctuary cities, arresting nearly 500 people nationwide, including 28 in Maryland and at least five in Baltimore. While ICE claims that it targeting people with criminal histories, a Sun staff editorial points out that all of the 28 Maryland detainees were […]

In a Baltimore Sun op-ed on Tuesday, Andrew Vetter, director of the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, said the city intends to expand the OSI-sponsored Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program, which diverts drug users into treatment instead of the criminal justice system. “We are seeking to expand existing programs like Safe Streets and Law […]