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The Preventable Crime Project exposes soft on crime prosecutors and lenient judges, pushes for sentencing and parole reform at the state and federal level, and demands a system where consequences actually match the crime.
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A man with a stabbing conviction and six parole violations was on probation, not in prison, when he allegedly moved through Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood for half an hour, killing one man and stabbing four others.
Calese Crowder, the repeat offender dubbed the “Butt Sniffer,” has been accused of the same act at five different Southern California stores in five years; the state's cumulative answer has been 264 days in county jail.
Repeat offender Fale Pea, freed by a lenient 2012 sentence and a 2025 wave of dismissed charges, randomly blinded 75-year-old Jeanette Marken in Seattle.
A California parole board overruled prosecutors' objections and freed Darryl Collins, a two-time murderer, in 2020. Fatima Johnson paid for that decision with her life 364 days later.
The Preventable Crime Project is now active on nine platforms, taking its fight against soft-on-crime courts straight to the public and making the record impossible to ignore.
A federal magistrate released Ashlie Jeremie on unsecured $2,500 bond over prosecutors' objection, and sixteen days later he was charged with beating Jonathan Sanon to death near Boston Common and attacking a college student blocks away.
A Contra Costa County judge released Marcos Iriarte-Valdez on his own recognizance one day before he allegedly stabbed 68-year-old Todd Stewart to death outside his Martinez home.
Tyler Brown, a career criminal with a three-decade violent record, should never have been free to walk Memorial Drive that afternoon. He got a fraction of the prison sentence prosecutors requested in 2021, then used his freedom five years later to open fire on a crowded Cambridge street, shooting Casimir Bangoura and another driver a block from Harvard's campus.
We Hold Judges Accountable
Judges make life-or-death sentencing decisions with almost no public scrutiny. Our Judicial Performance Database ends that, tracking sentencing patterns judge by judge and court by court to expose who consistently chooses leniency, and puts a permanent public record behind every decision to let a violent offender back onto the street.
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We Catalogue The Record
We investigate the cases prosecutors and courts hope the public forgets, cover breaking news as it happens, and publish original findings that name the failures directly. Every story we publish cannot be buried.
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We Analyze The Law
We track criminal justice policy in all fifty states and Congress and digest it for the public. We also catalogue model legislation lawmakers can introduce word for word.
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Our quizzes expose the gap between what people assume courts do and what the record shows really happens. We publish content across nine platforms — YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, Truth Social, Rumble, and LinkedIn — turning that gap into public pressure no one can ignore.
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