“Churches step in after feds drop Fugitive Safe Surrender” is an in-depth article on a program for fugitives from law enforcement. Churches in more than 50 cities have hosted Fugitive Safe Surrender events over the past decade, some of them more than once, resulting in thousands of cleared warrants. Churches are integral to Fugitive Safe Surrender, surveys bear out. They’ve overcome constitutional arguments about mixing church and state and thrown open the doors to perhaps the only institution–the church–where both police and wanted criminals will mix willingly.
