TGNC-NYC

Public Access Design

TGNC-NYC

Soda Census

City Studies

Soda Census

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

Urban Investigations

The Good, Bad, & Unknown

We're Watching

Public Access Design

We're Watching

Rent Regulation Rights

Making Policy Public

Rent Regulation Rights

Making the Grade

Urban Investigations

Making the Grade

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.

The Public School Avengers

Urban Investigations

The Public School Avengers

Participatory Budgeting

Technical Assistance

Participatory Budgeting

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

Public Access Design

Language Rights are Civil Rights!

What Up With DAT?

Technical Assistance

Predatory Equity

Making Policy Public

Predatory Equity

Lunchroom Digest

City Studies

Lunchroom Digest

The Newtown Creek BOA

Technical Assistance

The Newtown Creek BOA

Don't Bank On It

Making Policy Public

Don't Bank On It