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83 stories published since 2008

New York City Council Passes Legislation to Help Workers in Private Trash Industry

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica,

Agency Policing Tent City for Immigrant Kids Lacks Experience Investigating Sex Crimes Involving Children

by Topher Sanders and Michael Grabell,

FBI Moves to Fix Critical Flaw in Its Crime Reporting System

by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been Disciplined — Including the Chief Who Keeps Promoting Them

by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune,

When It Comes to Rape, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved

by Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

Diversion Programs Say They Offer a Path Away From Court, but Critics Say the Tolls Are Hefty

by Rebecca Burns for ProPublica Illinois,

When Public Records Aren’t Public

by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica,

In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops

by Joe Sexton,

Chicago Police Win Big When Appealing Discipline

by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica,

Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics

by Ken Schwencke,

Chilling New Report Cites Greater Death Toll in Allende Massacre

by Ginger Thompson,

Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

by Jessica Huseman and Annie Waldman,

Street Hustle: The Truth Behind the ‘New’ Police Tool for Confronting Fentanyl Menace

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over

by Lauren Kirchner,

New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Unreliable and Unchallenged

by Ryan Gabrielson,

‘No Field Test is Fail Safe’: Meet the Chemist Behind Houston’s Police Drug Kits

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

A Brutal Crime, Often Terribly Investigated

by T. Christian Miller,

Rape is Rape, Isn’t It?

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project,

Police Brutality from Chicago to Gitmo and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Amanda Zamora and Terry Parris Jr.,

Deadly Force, in Black and White

by Ryan Gabrielson, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones,

The Best Reporting on Federal Push to Militarize Local Police

by Hanqing Chen,

Missing: A Boy and The Evidence Against His Accused Killer

by Joaquin Sapien and Hanna Trudo,

The 24 States That Have Sweeping Self-Defense Laws Just Like Florida’s

by Cora Currier,

NYC’s Anti-Profiling Law: ‘Not Worth Paper It’s Written On’

by Justin Elliott,

Drive-by Scanning: Officials Expand Use and Dose of Radiation for Security Screening

by Michael Grabell,

U.S. Insurance Firm Neglects Survivors of Iraqi Translators, May Face Criminal Charges

by T. Christian Miller,

Six More Charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge Shootings

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica,

In New Orleans, Chaos in the Streets, and in Police Ranks Too

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, The New Orleans Advocate/The Times-Picayune,

FBI Opens Inquiry Into Death of Henry Glover

by A.C. Thompson,

Air Marshals and the Law

by Michael Grabell,

Air Marshals: Undercover and Under Arrest

by Michael Grabell,