OUR MISSION

Disproportionate impact on the justice system. 

Prosecutors have outsize power and largely unchecked authority in the criminal justice system—from charging nonviolent drug offenders with felonies to seeking the death penalty disproportionately based on the race of the victim and defendant. 

Long-time incumbents without real challengers. 

Almost all prosecutors in America are elected to office and 95% of them are re-elected—often without serious challengers and regardless of corruption, scandal or incompetence. Uncluttered elections mean a real chance for impact. 

Local, immediate impact with high-stakes consequences. 

Electing good prosecutors is complementary to traditional reform initiatives, concentrating efforts where they have the most immediate impact. For defendants in these jurisdictions, a fair prosecutor can mean the difference between freedom and imprisonment—or death.