Last week, former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller opened a forum hosted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), speaking to the question, “Is America in the midst of a crime wave?”

SIEPR’s forum focused on rethinking the criminal justice system in terms of crime, policing and incarceration. Experts tackled topics including the trust between the police forces and communities, the use of technology in fighting crime, and the prospect of downsizing prisons in California. The Daily sat down with Keller, who currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to criminal justice.

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TSD: How could a Stanford student get involved in the Marshall Project?

BK: Joan Petersilia, a professor at the Law School, and I have been talking in vague terms of whether we can have a joint venture between the Marshall Project and some students at the Law School. The difficulty is that we’re a small outfit, and running a group of students with limited journalistic experience takes a lot of bandwidth. We want to start with a focus and keep it small. We do also have summer internships, but we don’t have a budget for them, so they will need a stipend.