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Man in the Window

The arrest of a suspect in one of California’s most terrifying serial murders provides a backdrop for a modern and relevant investigation into unhealed trauma, the enduring harm of hostile […]
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The Secret List of Convicted Cops

The public entrusts police officers with the power to use deadly force to uphold the law. “The Secret List of Convicted Cops” shows how some officers betray that public trust, […]
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13 Alibis

Producer Dan Slepian’s bold, intrepid, and relentless investigative reporting is what defines “13 Alibis,” Dateline NBC’s first podcast. The report achieved what nearly a dozen lawyers couldn’t for 20 years: […]
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Law Enforcement for Hire

This is a story that shows, yet again, that rich and influential people are afforded a different brand of justice than hoi polloi. It’s the obverse of the Jeffrey Epstein […]
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Burlington Police Department social media scandal

Lamdin uncovered that the chief of the Burlington Police Department, Brandon del Pozo, created an anonymous Twitter account in July 2019 that he then used to troll a critic. When […]
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Despite Diversity Gains, Top NYPD Ranks Fall Short of Reflecting Communities

Since the 1980s, as the population of New York City has become increasingly diverse, the brass at the NYPD has remained predominantly white. THE CITY crunched the numbers and revealed […]
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Lethal Force

South Carolina law enforcement officers have shot hundreds of people over the last 10 years. One agency, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office, has pulled the trigger nearly twice as many […]
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Surveillance and Secrets

“Secrets and Surveillance” delved into the Real Time Crime Center’s (RTCC) privacy protections. For months, Rebecca Rivas’ requests for information about how police stored and provided access to surveillance materials […]
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New Hope Police Taser Confusion Controversy

A police officer in a popular tourist town in Bucks County Pennsylvania shot a suspect who survived, but for five weeks and five days that is all the public knew. […]
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Criminal Cops

Over the last decade, more than 600 cops in California, including dozens in San Diego, have been convicted of crimes. After DUIs and other alcohol-related offenses, domestic violence was among […]
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Deadly Chases, Few Arrests

A police car chase sparked by a traffic infraction killed two men in 12 seconds. A man's life was ruined by a cop's lie. Women were flunked out of police […]
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Gilded Badges: How New Jersey Cops Profit From Police Unions and Avoid Accountability

As the nation turned its attention to police accountability in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Asbury Park Press reporter Andrew Ford worked with ProPublica to produce an […]
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Driving While Indian

InvestigateWest plumbed millions of traffic stops to reveal the phenomenon of "driving while Indian": Native American motorists appear targeted for searches -- they're searched five times more often than white […]
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Race disparities in Ohio traffic stops

After we analyzed nearly half a million stops made in Cincinnati, Columbus and Cleveland, the state’s largest cities, we noticed a large discrepancy in the racial makeup of the data. […]
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Texas police can seize money and property with little transparency. So we got the data ourselves.

This investigative project was built on exhaustive data-collecting in four Texas counties to find out how Texas law enforcement uses a powerful tool: civil asset forfeiture. We decided to focus […]
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Must-have data for policing the police

Journalists who have covered police accountability issues from many different perspectives will share their favorite datasets that can help you look at issues such as hiring, training, misconduct, how cops […]
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