Crime victims in New Jersey do not receive the support they need to heal from their trauma. In particular, communities of color are the most harmed and least helped and victims in these communities are left to fend for themselves following victimization.

Around 9:30 pm on the night of Sunday, March 18, Stephon Alonzo “Zoe” Clark was murdered by Sacramento police in his own backyard. Police fired 20 shots while his family inside the home took cover. SacPD questioned his family for several hours about what they heard before his grandmother, Sequita Thompson, dared to push the window curtain aside and saw her grandson’s body. That’s how she found out he’d been killed. Predictably, the Sacramento Police Department has done their best to criminalize Clark. First, they claimed that Clark was armed, but then their story changed and they claimed that he was holding a toolbar. It has since been revealed that the only item found nearby was his cell phone. We know that police lie and criminalize victims in order to shift blame. We cannot trust them to investigate themselves. However, there is body camera footage. Sacramento city council policy dictates that video footage and audio recordings be released within 30 days of the shooting but SacPD Chief Daniel Hahn has promised the council that the footage would be available to the public by the end of the week. We know that video footage clearly demonstrating police misconduct does not automatically lead to justice. A joint investigation between the SacPD and District Attorney Anne Marie Shubert is ongoing but we know that District Attorney Shubert has a pattern of declining to prosecute killer cops who murder Black people. The cops who murdered Dazion Flenaugh and Joseph Mann are free today. We have to let Shubert know that we are watching this case closely, that she cannot let another killer cop get away with murder, and that we want justice for Zoe. We need to demand that charges are brought in this case.

20 shots fired at an unarmed man is NOT being in fear for your life, it is murder!!! No matter how you look at it!!! These monsters are on PAID administrative leave when they should be sitting in jail on suicide watch!!! OUR tax dollars are paying for their time off!!! We MUST all stand up for what's right and do something more then what's being done!!! Mayor of N.Y. promised to reduce the stop and frisk practice and it worked, maybe it's a start ?! I am starting this petition not because I know this young man but because I have a son of my own and am tired of explaining to him the things he cannot do as a young black man, that others take for granted. I now have to explain why he can't play in his own backyard!!! Our kids out here are being hurt and/or dying by the police almost every day, when does it stop?!?!?!

the petition is about clemency and yes im very affected by it my husband who is in eastern correctional facilty has filed for clemency and it has been a year and we have heard nothing yet and i am hoping stating this petiton it will help him to come home its been 13 yrs

A two-year-old baby was murdered in Hawaii and it can be proved, but there are no charges against the killers.

Osceola County Officials have not solved the murder nor charged anyone. The emails received by the mother of the victim shows complete lack of interest in solving this murder.

We, the People living in the City of Los Angeles, have suffered tremendous trauma at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department for far too long!...It is time we elected our Police Chief instead of accepting whomever the Mayor appoints, which doesn't give us a say in the decision-making process...It is time for change!

Compassion works both ways, and by teaching responsibility, care, and respect, there is so much to be gained and absolutely nothing to lose in trying what has proven so successful across the country.

The failed policy of criminal prohibition has ruined thousands of lives and led to an unregulated, illegal black market. It's time for Maryland to join the growing number of states that have created regulated, legal cannabis industries. We should spend our time and resources on public health responses to drug use, instead of failed strategies that rely on incarceration.

This coming Monday night (March 12th), the Public Safety Committee of the Greene County Legislative body will vote whether to forward this $30,000 feasibility study to a full legislative vote or have it die on Monday night. Abandoning this feasibility study would be irresponsible, especially when NY state has explained to county leaders that much of this money will be reimbursed by the state. We cannot allow our county to burden us with a $52 million dollar jail that is not needed. The state and Columbia County would like us to share a jail and save our taxpayers from near bankruptcy. Let's move this forward and stop the frivolous waste of our money.

My brother was moved from Halawa Correctional Facility to Saguaro Correctional Center over 3 years ago. I was finally able to save enough for my family to fly to Arizona to see him this past February. During the time I was there, I met former students and families who had given up so much to be close to their husbands/fathers. HCF is a run down and out of date prison. Instead of sending our families to Arizona, update our facilities on Oahu and bring our families home.

Too many innocent babies are affected and will become victims of violence and abuse just like their mothers.