John Pfaff
professor of Law at Fordham Law School.
John Pfaff is a professor of law at the Fordham University School of Law. He is the author of “Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform.”
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John Pfaff
Opinion
The disturbing record behind the ICE officer who killed Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero
The killing of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, highlights the outrageous lack of vetting and proper training for ICE agents.
Opinion
The one notable difference in the wake of ICE’s latest shooting incident
Wariness surrounding ICE’s telling of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s killing is well-earned, given the agency’s documented acts of seeming deception and dishonesty.
Opinion
Kash Patel has not only done nothing to lower crime rates, he’s worked against it
The FBI, no matter its director or the presidential administration, has never been a major driver of crime trends.
Opinion
Too many parents are prosecuted due to junk science. New Jersey finally admitted it.
The New Jersey ruling underscores how thin empirical support is for much of the forensic evidence used in criminal cases.
MS NOW Opinion
ICE and CBP’s aggressive tactics may have finally gone too far
A federal judge dealt federal agents a setback – and shed light on a much more persistent, deeper problem with policing.
MS NOW Opinion
ICE is struggling to hire officers — even after lowering its standards
DHS is spending millions of dollars on an aggressive television ad campaign targeting local police officers — but it’s not getting nearly enough applicants.
MS NOW Opinion
Trump‘s megabill gives billions to ICE — but hiring 10,000 new agents won’t be easy
The agency has historically struggled to fill open positions — and more money won’t necessarily solve the problem.
MS NOW Opinion
Trump’s new executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement. It won’t make us safer.
The EO’s basic message is “police should not be sued, and we stand behind those who are.”