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Stephen Janis

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Director of "Tax Broke" and"The Friendliest Town" docs, co-host The Police Accountability Report on The Real News Network. Host: Land of the Unsolved
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STEPHEN JANIS is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work has been acclaimed both in print and in television. As the Senior Investigative Reporter for the now defunct Baltimore Examiner, he won two Maryland DC Delaware Press Association Awards for his work on the number of unsolved murders in Baltimore and the killings of prostitutes. His in-depth work on the city's zero-tolerance policing policies garnered an NAACP President's Award. As an Investigative Producer for WBFF/Fox 45, he has won three successive Capital Emmys: two for Best Investigative Series and one for Outstanding Historical/Cultural Piece

He is the author of three books on the philosophy of policing, Why Do We Kill? The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore and You Can't Stop Murder: Truths About Policing in Baltimore and Beyond, The Book of Cop: A Testament to a Better Way to Police. He has also written two novels, This Dream Called Death and Orange: The Diary of an Urban Surrealist. His teaches journalism at Towson University