Today, Campaign Zero is launching Labeled for Life: a national campaign to end gang enhancement laws and dismantle the databases that sustain them. Across 37 states and Washington D.C., people can spend decades in prison not for what they did, but for who police say they are. Gang enhancement laws allow prosecutors to pile on…
Campaign Zero Executive Director DeRay Mckesson was quoted in The New York Times today regarding recent fatal shootings by ICE agents and what they reveal about systemic accountability failures in law enforcement. In “It’s All Just Going Down the Toilet’: Police Chiefs Fume at ICE Tactics,” Mckesson discussed how contradictions between official government accounts and…
The fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis earlier this month shocked the nation. But here’s what should alarm us even more: we have no idea how many similar incidents have occurred. In 2026, the United States still has no federal law requiring law enforcement agencies—including ICE—to report when they use…
For decades, America has measured public safety all wrong. We’ve treated it like a scoreboard—counting arrests, tracking crime rates, and equating bigger police budgets with safer communities. But those numbers don’t tell the real story—they reflect a culture of fear and punishment rather than the reality of community safety. Real safety is freedom from fear—fear…