An investigation by The Palm Beach Post found that operators of nightclubs linked to sex trafficking by the FBI not only still are in business in Palm Beach County — they are expanding. The Post also found one of the clubs was issued a Florida liquor license only because regulators failed to identify its operator [...]
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Law & Disorder looks at police corruption in post-Katrina New Orleans
August 25th, 2010 
Beth Law & Disorder, a special report by FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Times-Picayune, investigates a number of questionable police shootings in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, raising new questions about the actions of police officers — and their command structure — in the aftermath of the catastrophe. This airs on PBS August 25, and can be [...]
Patients in Peril series
August 23rd, 2010 Beth From a violent patient allowed to roam free to a pregnancy case that violated policy at every turn and nurses who falsified documents to cover their mistakes, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation exposed a raft of problems at the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex, home to the county’s most vulnerable residents. Reporters Meg Kissinger and [...]
Thai Workers Victims of Human Trafficking In Utah
August 18th, 2010 alecia Lee Davidson reported how Thai workers recruited to work on Utah pig and chicken farms were victims of human trafficking. Read “A Story of Modern Slavery in Utah.”
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Comments OffTrouble plagues N.C. State Bureau of Investigation
August 10th, 2010 Beth A 4-part series by The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) reveals deep trouble at the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. The series finds an agency in line with prosecutors wishes, agents and analysts who ignore or twist the truth, and reliance on junk science. The director of the SBI was removed from her post [...]
Danger lurks in some adult foster care homes
July 27th, 2010 Beth After a staff member at an adult foster care home in the Duluth, Minn., area was left alone with and nearly raped by a resident who had twice been civilly committed for mental illness, the Duluth News Tribune investigated the homes and found numerous incidents of residents with severe mental illness, drug addiction and violent [...]
Poor communication allowed gang member to go free
July 23rd, 2010 Beth In a federal crackdown on the Latin Kings, a notorious street gang in Milwaukee, federal authorities had a chance to arrest a key gang leader wanted in connection with a homicide when he appeared at the county courthouse on a different case. But an investigation by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter John Diedrich revealed a startling [...]
Analysis shows no pattern of racial profiling in Gates’ arrest
June 24th, 2010 Beth The latest investigation from the New England Center for Investigation Reporting challenges the notion that race was a factor in the disorderly conduct arrest of Harvard University scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is black, by a white Cambridge, Mass., police officer last year. “Instead, the analysis…finds that the most common factor linking people who [...]
Debtors ending up in jail
June 17th, 2010 Beth An analysis of state data by Chris Serres and Glenn Howatt, of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, shows that “people are routinely being thrown in jail for failing to pay debts. In Minnesota, which has some of the most creditor-friendly laws in the country, the use of arrest warrants against debtors has jumped 60 percent over [...]
Campus police downplay crime rates
June 11th, 2010 Beth An investigation by Wendy Halloran of WHNT-Huntsville, Ala. reveals the campus police department at the University of Alabama in Huntsville is downplaying crime rates to make the campus appear safer. In the wake of the deadly shootings on February 12, 2010, Halloran began examining the police department’s handling of the crisis. The investigation utilized whistle [...]
