Is Suspension The Solution?

City Studies

Is Suspension The Solution?

What's in the Water?

Making Policy Public

What's in the Water?

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights - San Francisco Edition

What Is Zoning?

Envisioning Development

What Is Zoning?

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

Making Policy Public

En El Campo De Los Impuestos

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

Print Innocent Until Proven Risky

Everyday, nearly half a million people who have only been accused of a crime are held in jail before their trial, mostly because they can’t afford to pay bail. And 70% of them are people of color. One proposed solution to lower the rates of people held in jail pretrial is to use Risk Assessment Tools (RATs), or decision-making tools, to help judges set a person’s pretrial conditions. RATs use demographic information to guess how a person accused of a crime will behave if they’re released from jail before trial. But as RATs are being used more frequently across the country with little transparency, the racial disparities in pretrial detention have not improved, and in some places, have worsened. 

To help communities understand how RATs work and how to organize for alternatives, CUP collaborated with JustLeadershipUSA and designer Katrin Bichler to create Innocent Until Proven Risky. The fold-out poster illustrates how pretrial Risk Assessment Tools work and how they can impact individuals differently based on their race and class. The guide folds out into a poster that explores community-based alternatives to RATs.

We Are Public Housing

Making Policy Public

We Are Public Housing

The Fresh Producers

Urban Investigations

The Fresh Producers

Zoning It In...

Urban Investigations

Zoning It In...

From Shelter to Apartment

Making Policy Public

From Shelter to Apartment

The Cargo Chain

Making Policy Public

The Cargo Chain

Store Stories

City Studies

Store Stories

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

Common Cents

City Studies

Common Cents