Zaid Jilani

Zaid Jilani is a freelance journalist who has in the past worked for UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, The Intercept, and the Center for American Progress.

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REALITY STRIKES BACK

The Defund the Police Crusade Got Crushed at the Ballot Box

It turns out that most voters wanted higher-quality policing, not an end to policing.

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‘I LOVED HIM’

Shootings Rise in Cities Along With Calls to Defund Police

It’s hard to find a big city in America that isn’t seeing a wave of violence, even as other reports of crimes have fallen during the pandemic.

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RATIONAL TO RETREAT?

Can Probing Broken Police Forces Have Deadly Consequences?

In five cities where police were investigated by the feds after high-profile killings of African-Americans, many more people were murdered in the years that followed.

Zaid Jilani