"Police in America arrest millions of people each year, and the
likelihood that arrest will lead to jail incarceration has increased
steadily: for every 100 arrests police officers made in 2016, there were
99 jail admissions, up from 70 jail admissions for every 100 arrests in
1994. Ending mass incarceration and repairing its extensive collateral
consequences thus must begin by focusing on the front end of the system:
police work. Recognizing the roughly 18,000 police agencies around the
country as gatekeepers of the system, this report explores the factors
driving mass enforcement, particularly of low-level offenses; what
police agencies could do instead with the right community investment,
national and local leadership, and officer training, incentives, and
support; and policies that could shift the policing paradigm away from
the reflexive use of enforcement, which unnecessarily criminalizes
people and leads directly to the jailhouse door."
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