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Reports and Body-cam Video Raise Familiar Concerns About Baltimore Police Plainclothes Unit
Articles > Investigations > Reports and Body-cam Video Raise Familiar Concerns About Baltimore Police Plainclothes Unit This story was produced in partnership with Baltimore Magazine. On September 5, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office announced that it would not pursue criminal charges against BPD detective Connor Johnson, who pressed his service weapon against the temple of a restrained and prone Baltimore man during a controversial May arrest.
California Lets Defendants Challenge Racism In Court. Few Have Succeeded.
This story was produced in partnership with CalMatters When police pulled over Tommy Bonds III on a chilly January day in 2022, the San Diego State University student had an idea why. “What’s goin’ on, bro? How you doin’?” San Diego Police Officer Ryan Cameron said as he approached the car, shining his flashlight in Bonds’ face. Bonds told Cameron he recognized him.
North Carolina Parole System Accused Of Blocking Release For People Who Committed Crimes As Children
By Jacob Biba A lawsuit from a prisoner who been denied release more than 20 times claims that the state holds parole “perpetually out of realistic reach.” Articles > Investigations > North Carolina Parole System Accused Of Blocking Release For People Who Committed Crimes As Children This story was produced in partnership with WFAE, Charlotte, North Carolina's NPR News source. In the more than 40 years he’s been incarcerated in North Carolina, Brett Abrams has rarely faced discipline.
Democratic Pundits Have A Pernicious Crime Problem
This story was produced in partnership with The New Republic. In Democrats’ seemingly endless election postmortems—and in the postmortems on the postmortems—a persistent theme has been to blame the reddening of blue states like New York and New Jersey on crime in their big cities. On Pod Save America, the political commentator Ezra Klein emphasized the importance of taking crime seriously as a factor in voters’ decisions.
Baltimore Residents Held In Jail At Higher Rates Than Before Bail Reform
This story was produced in partnership with The Baltimore Beat. Seven years after Maryland tried to reform the cash bail system, people who get arrested in Baltimore are being held in jail before trial at a higher rate than before the change.
Who Is Voting For Reform Prosecutors?
This story was produced in partnership with Split Ticket. Reform prosecutors entered the 2024 election year with significant headwinds: in recent years, they were recalled (Chesa Boudin in San Francisco), defeated (Marilyn Mosby in Baltimore City), and blowback to racial justice has mounted since the George Floyd summer nearly five years ago. But because prosecutors are elected at the county or circuit level, the politics of their elections are highly local.
Bail Is A Longstanding Problem in Baltimore. Is Maryland Searching For A Solution?
Articles > Investigations > Bail Is A Longstanding Problem in Baltimore. Is Maryland Searching For A Solution? This piece was produced in partnership with The Baltimore Beat. On a foggy day in mid-December, a young Black man peers up from a grim-looking room at Baltimore’s Central Booking & Intake Center, tugging nervously at his hair. He is speaking through a computer screen to Commissioner Kathleen Puckett, who is sitting in a cubicle at a district courthouse six miles south of the jail.
YNW Melly’s Trials Highlight Florida’s Unconstitutional Death Penalty Law
This story was produced in partnership with Rolling Stone. Cortlen Henry pulled his Jeep into Memorial Hospital Miramar and ran into the ER just after 4:30 a.m. on October 26, 2018. In the shotgun seat, Anthony “YNW Sakchaser” Williams lay dead with gunshot wounds to his head and body. In the backseat was Christopher “YNW Juvy” Thomas Jr., also shot dead. Henry said the trio were victims of a drive-by shooting after they left a Fort Lauderdale recording studio.
Baltimore’s homicide clearance rate is rising, but arrests for murder remain flat
Articles > Investigations > Baltimore’s homicide clearance rate is rising, but arrests for murder remain flat This story was produced in partnership with The Baltimore Brew. With homicides declining significantly in the last two years, Mayor Brandon Scott has lauded his administration’s role in the trend, calling Baltimore “the model for violence reduction” at his State of the City address in April. In 2024, there were 201 murders in Baltimore.
The Garrison Project Folds Into Deep South Today, Focusing Its Criminal Justice Reporting on the Deep South Region
Articles > Latest > The Garrison Project Folds Into Deep South Today, Focusing Its Criminal Justice Reporting on the Deep South Region The Garrison Project, an award-winning investigative reporting initiative that collaborates with national and local newsrooms to explore criminal justice issues, will fold its operations into Deep South Today, a nonprofit network of local newsrooms that includes Mississippi Today and Verite News.
The Biggest Myth About the 1994 Crime Bill Still Haunts Joe Biden. It Shouldn’t.
Articles > Commentary > The Biggest Myth About the 1994 Crime Bill Still Haunts Joe Biden. It Shouldn’t. This story was produced in partnership with Slate. This year marks the 30th birthday of one of the most notorious pieces of legislation from Bill Clinton’s presidency: the 1994 Crime Bill. Although many of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act’s provisions expired in the early 2000s, the bill took on new life during the 2016 presidential primaries.
Feds Closed a Prison Notorious for Abuse. Things Only Got Worse
This story was produced in partnership with Rolling Stone. Jennifer was freezing. She was dressed in a brown T-shirt and scrubs. Chains, wrapped twice around her waist, pinched her belly. Handcuffs dug in tightly on her wrists, leaving purple bruises. She was tired. She was hungry. And she was petrified because she had no idea where she was going. All she knew was that the prison where she’d lived for years was shutting down and she was on a bus headed to a far-away facility.
Biden’s Focus on Marijuana Is Part of the Problem
This story was published in partnership with Slate. Earlier this month, President Joe Biden released a three-prong plan to fulfill a campaign promise to roll back punishments for people convicted of marijuana possession.
Jacklean Davis Was The First Black Woman To Serve As a Homicide Detective in New Orleans. Did A Now Disbarred Prosecutor Bring About Her Fall?
In the 1990s, Davis was a policing superstar, hailed as the best crime solver the Crescent City had ever seen. But a dispute over a paid detail at a festival turned into a major federal case against her, brought by a prosecutor involved whose conduct in other cases was called ‘grotesque.’ Jacklean Davis Photo illustration by Elizabeth Brown. Photo by Cheryl Gerber.
Q&A with Joni Mitchell
Photo: William Claxton; Demont Photo What kept you going, culturally speaking, when you were a child growing up in the tiny town of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and battling polio? I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; he’s very misunderstood. He’s a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
Caging Kids Is An American Tradition
Trump didn’t start it, but we can end it. Jakelin Caal Maquin of Guatemala died in the custody of U.S. Border Patrol. Caal Family Ethan Brown Jan 03, 2019 Share Trump didn’t start it, but we can end it. Ethan Brown Jan 03, 2019 A prison guard told an incarcerated child that he wanted to sexually assault his mother and then pummeled the child with his fists and radio.
The Secret Story of Corruption Behind Meek Mill’s Incarceration
Illustration by Joe Cruz / Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty Jessica Brand, Ethan Brown Apr 16, 2018 Share Jessica Brand, Ethan Brown Apr 16, 2018 On Jan. 23, 2007, a pair of officers from the Philadelphia Police Department’s Narcotics Field Unit (NFU) received information from a “reliable source” that drug sales were being conducted in the vicinity of 22nd and Jackson Streets, on the city’s south side.
After Hearing Concerns about ICE, Texas Sheriff Ran Apparent Traffic Sting That Led to Deportation Proceedings
Just weeks after members of Texas-based community group Bastrop Interfaith met with Sheriff Maurice Cook to express concerns about their neighborhoods (illegal dumping, speeding, minor theft) and to begin a dialogue about law enforcement’s relationship with immigrants, Cook presided over an apparent “zero tolerance” traffic sting. During the operation, 63 people were pulled over for traffic offenses, of whom 24 were arrested for offenses such as driving without a license and DWI.
US Attorney’s Office That Prosecuted Inauguration Day Protesters Has History of Misconduct Findings
Prosecutors on the "J20" case faced grave allegations of misconduct after withholding exculpatory evidence contained in videos from defense attorneys. But this is far from the first time that this office has found itself in hot water.
More Than A Month After Anti-ICE Protests, Detained NYC Immigrants Still Denied In-Person Hearings
On July 26, Andres* appeared in immigration court at 201 Varick St. in lower Manhattan to fight his deportation order. Not physically, but over live video feed. A camera posted in the courtroom enabled him to see the judge but not the benches where his wife sat, according to his lawyer Ellen Pachnanda. Sympathetic, Judge Mimi Tsankov invited Andres’s wife to sit in the front of the courtroom, but the government attorney objected.
Influences: Joni Mitchell
(Photo: William Claxton; Demont Photo) What kept you going, culturally speaking, when you were a child growing up in the tiny town of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and battling polio? I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He gets a bad rap; he’s very misunderstood. He’s a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.
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