Move Criminal Justice Forward
The Trump Administration’s ill-advised “law and order” approach to policing should be eschewed in favor of procedural justice.
Tracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale University and Director of the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. In addition to her academic work on criminal procedure and criminal law policy, Meares has broad federal government experience, including work as an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Department’s Science Advisory Board. In 2014, President Obama appointed Meares to his Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
The Trump Administration’s ill-advised “law and order” approach to policing should be eschewed in favor of procedural justice.