Home | Peace and Justice Law Center Home page images Text buttons andor newsletter subscription Add a logo a button or social media links The Peace and Justice Law Center Our Goal Freedom from State and Neighborhood Violence We believe that criminal violence is so closely tied to the violence of policing and incarceration that one cannot be treated without addressing the other. We learned this lesson working with teenagers who had to walk through different neighborhoods to get home from school. They describe being pocket checked by youth from other neighborhoods where they are forced to empty their pockets and give up any valuable items they have. Then when they make it to their own neighborhood they are stopped and frisked by the police as part of what the police call gang suppression.