This month’s member spotlight features Barron Jones. Barron joined the ACLU of New Mexico in January 2018 after spending several years working as a journalist for the Rio Grande Sun in Española where he covered stories related to government accountability and education.
This month’s spotlighted member is Steve Derene, former executive director and co-founder of the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators.
This comprehensive analysis of arrest trends is the first of its kind since the federal government stopped releasing detailed arrest data in 2020. It shows that arrests fell sharply in 2020 during the pandemic—and have stayed down since then.
Using multiple federal data sources, this report rebuilds national arrest trend lines across age, gender, race, and offense categories—restoring national visibility into more than 40 years of arrest patterns.
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