Michelle Rippy is on sabbatical from California State University East Bay, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. Michelle earned her doctorate in Organizational Change from the University of Southern California.
Despite extensive funding, opioid-related overdoses have not significantly decreased, showing that a different strategy is needed to save lives.
The Biden-Harris Administration should fund actionable, evidence-based programs for law enforcement, crime laboratories, community organizations, disaster response, and robust data surveillance systems.
Medicolegal death investigations agencies are generally underresourced, with insufficient infrastructure for data-sharing and computerized record management.
Excited delirium, a diagnosis generally characterized by a severely agitated state, made headlines in some of the most contentious deaths in custody.
To make communities safer and law enforcement officers more successful, the Biden-Harris Administration should create a national minimum standard for entry-level academy training.
Accurate death reporting is necessary for public health surveillance, timely health interventions, and reduction in avoidable deaths, but our current system is disjointed and disorganized.
Adequate resources, shelter, and opportunities for people to secure permanent housing are critical for alleviating homelessness and reducing recidivism rates.
Colorado is the 12th state to ban “ghost guns”. The use of unserialized firearms has grown 1000% since 2017.