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After Tyre Nichols’s death, decarceration advocates make policy arguments based on visceral-but-rare examples—a tactic they had long decried.

On April 3, 1987, William “Willie” Horton twice raped a woman after pistol-whipping and tying up her fiancé. He then stole the fiancé’s car and fled, before finally being apprehended by Prince George’s County, Maryland, police. Horton’s crime was particularly disturbing because, at the time of his offense, he was supposed to be 400 miles […]

Editor’s note: This is the last in a three-part series on the death of a Japanese woman, Hanako Abe, in San Francisco, a case that sparked a movement to recall a district attorney and rekindled debate about criminal justice policy in the United States.

We've heard again and again that crime is rising. But the reality is far more complex, in part because of how we define crime in the first place.

"Progressive prosecutors face political pushback right now largely because they are convenient targets for Republican politicians," one expert told Newsweek.