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Tracy_V retweeted
18 Dec 2025
Honored to participate in the Council for Court Excellence’s panel on emerging challenges for the District’s legal system.
With representation from all three branches of our government, it was a fascinating conversation on the administration of justice in DC.
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Federal Efforts to Reinstate Cash Bail in DC Disproportionately Harms Black Residents dcfpi.org/all/federal-effort…
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Tracy_V retweeted
15 Aug 2025
Interesting: Per the @CCE_for_DC, the population in the D.C. Jail's Central Detention Facility has gone up over the last week, which aligns with the increased arrests by federal enforcement officers deployed in the city.
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Planning my adventure in Savannah - staying at Thunderbird Inn. For friends & family thinking of traveling... flip.to/r/a1xr7 @tbirdinn
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Tracy_V retweeted
23 Sep 2024
Costs for D.C. policing and incarceration exceeded 💸 1 billion dollars for the first time in recent history. Want to know what’s filling this budget?
Read our report “Is D.C. More Secure? A Criminal Legal Systems Overview"—out now! courtexcellence.org/news-ite…
23 Sep 2024
How much did policing and incarceration for D.C. cost last year? Take a look at our report to find the answer! courtexcellence.org/news-ite…
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Tracy_V retweeted
23 Sep 2024
The day has arrived: "Is D.C. More Secure? A Legal Systems Overview" is now available on our brand-new website! This data-driven report delves into D.C.'s criminal legal system, offering key baseline statistics to assess impacts of SECURE D.C. legislation courtexcellence.org/news-ite…
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Tracy_V retweeted
23 Jul 2024
🔊Have you or someone you know been a resident at D.C. Jail in the past year? We are looking to interview folks on conditions in the DC Jail, including the CDF and CTF.
If interested, please contact 443-296-2435 or magdalena.tsiongas@courtexcellence.org
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Tracy_V retweeted
5 Jun 2024
can pretty much extrapolate everything you need to know about the legal framework and realities of carceral data availability from this ongoing situation with deaths-in-custody reporting ⬇️
4 Jun 2024
Major update in @theappeal's FOIA lawsuit seeking to compel the federal Department of Justice to release records on in-custody deaths in prisons, jails, and police custody. 🧵
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Tracy_V retweeted
3 Jun 2024
“There hasn’t been much conversation around how do we, as adults, help improve their outcomes so that they don’t engage in crime and they don’t go deeper into the system.”
CCE's Tracy Velazquez talks about our newest report on DC's #crossoveryouth: buff.ly/3yH1s4y
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Tracy_V retweeted
5 Jun 2024
New article on the new jail funding debate by @jennygathright. We hope DC leaders will move quickly & collaboratively to replace crumbling, unsafe jail. It must be a community-led project & those whose lives are most impacted should be centered in planning.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…
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Tracy_V retweeted
28 May 2024
📢New report!
Check out our Crossover Youth Audit, out today, which provides recommendations for how the District government can better meet the needs of these vulnerable young people.
buff.ly/4bYagkz
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Always glad when journalists say plainly what is plain to see. Thanks @michaelschaffer for giving DC some representation… in the media anyway
Column: Congress blames D.C. for crime. But they’re making it worse, writes our senior editor @michaelschaffer. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Tracy_V retweeted
19 Jan 2024
CCE analysis of DC's NIBRS police data shows 365 reported incidents of theft between $500 and $999 in 2022.
More prison and jail time for stealing items like a phone is a very expensive approach shown not to work. (3/3)
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Tracy_V retweeted
14 Jan 2024
Please read the @DCJusticeLab's analysis of the Omnibus Crime Bill. If the Council of the District of Columbia enacts it as written, it will make DC less safe.
13 Jan 2024
Under @CMBrookePinto's draft Secure DC bill:
If a person is being chased by the police and they are ordered to drop the gun…it will be illegal for them to drop the gun.
Time to redraft.
Read more.
dcjusticelab.org/wp-content/…
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Tracy_V retweeted
11 Jan 2024
Probation is meant to be an alternative to incarceration.
However, many agencies lack resources to supervise those with mental health disorders—potentially increasing the chance this overrepresented population ends up in prison anyway.
States can help. pew.org/496BlB1
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New @BJSgov victimization report: Young people saw largest rate ⬆️in violent victimization. bjs.ojp.gov/document/cv22.pd…
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The National #SuicidePrevention Lifeline relaunched last year with a new number, yet few Americans are aware of the helpline and its purpose.
bit.ly/43U12BS
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Tracy_V retweeted
17 May 2023
For decades, the answer to: "Who is in U.S. jails and how long are they staying?" has been a resounding
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We've finally got some receipts—and they make it clear that racial disparities persist.
pew.org/3pNClbL
ALT Animation showing the share of jails by level of overrepresentation of Black people in 2022. In 26% of jails, the share of Black people in jail was over twice their share of the community. In 16% of jails, it was at least three times. And in 29% of jails, at least four times.
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Tracy_V retweeted
18 May 2023
Racial disparities in jails declined in the decade leading up to the pandemic.
That may have reversed as COVID-19 spread, according to @publicsafetylab data.
pew.org/3BFIw48
ALT Horizontal bar chart showing the change in average daily jail populations, by race, from March 2020 to December 2022. Black populations grew by 8%, while White populations grew by 0.4%.
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