Sarah A. Seo

Reimagining the Public Defender

For the poor, who are disproportionately people of color, the criminal justice system in the United States is essentially a plea-and-probation system.

Racism on the Road

In ‘Driving While Black,’ Gretchen Sorin examines the struggle to abolish segregation on the highways and byways in Jim Crow America.

Cars & New Policing Technology

This is not the usual story about cars and freedom. The mass production of the automobile transformed twentieth-century America in unexpected and important ways. Foremost, and little-known, it revolutionized policing.