Everyday Injustice

Taking on the policies of the incumbent DA and Sheriff, JoAnn Walker, a SF Police Officer, and Pamela Price, a Civil Rights Attorney are running for Alemeda County Sheriff and DA as a team. Walker has been a police officer in San Francisco for over 25 years and is looking to bring change to the Alameda County Sheriff, taking on issues like police reform and the Santa Rita Sheriff. Pamela Price is...

This week's guest on Everyday Injustice, Adnan Khan, is the Executive Director of ReStore Justice which he co-founded while incarcerated. While in prison, he inspired and helped to launch legislation that dealt with the Felony Murder Rule - SB 1437 - which we have been tracking for the last year and a half. Khan discusses COVID and the devastation it has wrought to incarcerated populations and its...

Everyday Injustice features Jessica Pishko, a writer, lawyer, and consultant who focuses on sheriff accountability and jail decarceration. She is currently advising nonprofit organizations on sheriff accountability campaigns. She has a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA from Columbia University. In a NY Times article in 2019, she noted that sheriffs "lack even the most basic independent oversig...

Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby joined the Everyday Injustice podcast to discuss her office's new sentencing review unit. The unit will review cases of certain incarcerated people to determine whether the office supports their release. “Our state has a mass incarceration problem caused by lengthy and excessive sentences, which are disproportionately imposed on people of color. My off...

While the advent of DNA testing and the Innocence Project pushed wrongful convictions into the mainstream consciousness. There was important work done on wrongful convictions dating back well into the last century and through the work of trail blazers like Jim McCloskey with Centurion Ministries. Martin Yant's book from nearly 30 years ago marked the first comprehensive account of wrongful convict...

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the only elected public defender in California was Mano Raju. His first 18 months has seen not only the sudden ascent to head the office, but the COVID epidemic, a series of protests for racial reform, and a tumultuous election. Everyday Injustice discusses these and the role of being of public df...

This week on Everyday Injustice we speak with Michael Bobelian, author of the Marel Palace who chronicles the 1968 Court battle over Abe Fortas’s nomination to elevate him from associate to Chief Justice by LBJ. The discussion has interesting parallels to this current debate over Amy Barrett's nomination that went through last week. Bobelian argues that the Fortas battle marked the turning point i...

Andrew Warren was a federal prosecutor who ran for Florida State Attorney in Hillsborough County (Tampa) in 2016 and is now running for reelection. He ran as a reformer. Listen as he discusses issues of protests, police accountability and criminal justice reform.

Dan Quart has been in the NY State Assembly for nearly a decade. Now he is among many running for the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, a position currently held by Cy Vance, but it is unknown if by 2021, he will seek another turn. In the meantime, Quart is positioning himself as a reformer on a variety of issues which he discusses on Everyday Injustice.

David Greenwald (Vanguard Editor) and Jordon Varney (Vanguard at UC Davis City Editor) host a discussion with the three young council candidates: Kelsey Fortune, Connor Gorman and Dillan Horton. Discussion ranged from policing, to race, to commissions and rental issues.

Ben Pogue is a candidate for the Ninth Circuit Solicitor in South Carolina, representing Charleston and Berkley Counties. He is looking to bring reform and accountability to the criminal justice system. During the interview he talked about the prosecutor's office's failure to bring accountability in the police killing of unarmed Walter Scott, who he said the solicitor "blamed for his own murder."

Everyday INjustice sat down with four individuals in the community of Davis California looking to make changes to policing at the local level. The participants: Morgan Poindexter,Aarthi Sekar, Lupita Torres, and Dillan Horton. The discussion ranged from data on racial profiling, race and policing, to alternative models - defunding the police, reimagining policing and CAHOOTS.

Elected in November 2019 in San Francisco as a reformer, Chesa Boudin has been on the job for nine months and already accomplished a lot. We discuss some of the reforms - racial disparities, police accountability, the post conviction review, and much more.

In the wake of George Floyd's killing, California legislators put forward a number of police reforms - many of which died prior to getting to a vote. One of those was Senator Bradford's SB 731 which would allow for police officers who committed misconduct to be decertified and not allowed to serve as officers. California is only one of five states that doesn't have such a process.

Everyday Injustice podcast covers criminal justice reform, mass incarceration, wrongful convictions, and more. – Episode 76: It Could Happen to You Jeffrey Deskovic and Bill Bastuk. Deskovic was wrongly convicted at age 16 and released after 17 years in prison, has become a lawyer and founded the Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation. Bastuk wrongly accused of a crime but acquitted. The two have started It...

Everyday Injustice talks with Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson who discusses Public Defense work, defunding the police, officer involved shootings, racial disparities, and zero bail.

Washtenaw County Sheriff Jerry Clayton is not like most sheriffs, his approach to law enforcement looks to reduce racial disparities and mass incarceration. He has a different take on defunding the police than many, but looks to change policing and looks to tools other than simply enforcement to deal with many of society's problems.

USC Professor Jody Armour wrote the provocative book, "N*gga Theory" and on everyday injustice we talk about issues like racism, language, symbols such as the confederate flag as well as well mass incarceration and concentrated poverty. Want to understand racism in America - listen to this podcast and read his book.

Everyday Injustice speaks to Brendon Woods, the chief Public Defender in Alameda County, the only Black Chief Public Defender in the state of California. He discusses mass incarceration, criminal justice reform, policing and race.

Last July, DA Jaime Esparaza announced he would not seek election after serving 28 years. In 2016, Yvonne Rosales, running as a reformer a reformer narrowly lost to Esparaza. Rosales who began her career as an Assistant District Attorney before going into private practice. She is pushing for reforms in the criminal justice system and discussed issues like police accountability, mass incarceration...

Since May 25 and the death of George Floyd at the hands of officers in Minnesota, protesters have taken to the streets and the nation has been debating policing and the legacy of racism. Everyday Injustice speaks to Calvin Handy, a retired police chief from UC Davis with decades of experience in law enforcement who discusses the problems with policing today and ways to correct these problems into...

Franky Carrillo was one of the cases featured on Netflix’s series, “The Innocence Files,” the story begins in 1991 when Donald Sarpy was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting as he was standing in the driveway of his home in Lynwood, California. There were six witnesses to the murder, but none of them got a good look at the shooter due to the dark conditions. Nevertheless, pressured by a sheriff’...

On May 19, Walter Barton became the first person executed in the US in over two months, convicted of killing an 81 year old acquaintance nearly three decades ago. But the Innocence Project and others believed him wrongfully convicted. The Midwest Innocence Project believed that the evidence was unreliable. Barton was convicted based on the testimony of an unreliable jailhouse informant and the use...

Melissa Mark-Viverito, born in Puerto Rico, has been a councilmember in New York City representing areas of the Bronx for several terms and she is running to replace longtime incumbent Jose Serrano. She is running on a platform that includes criminal justice reform and talked extensively about efforts to close down Rikers Island, the notorious jail in New York, bail reform and stop and frisk.

Mimi Rocah is a former Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, serving from February 2001 until October 2017. She is running for DA in Westchester County, NY. She is running on a platform of reform looking to impose though ethical standards and transparency to the office she believes is lacking in both. She is also looking at issues such as decarceration, bail reform...