When cops misbehave, why does it stay secret? We hear from a reporter threatened with prosecution and interview a U.S. police association leader.
Criminal Justice
Crime and punishment, from the street to the courtroom and prisons
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
The lynching of Thomas Finch
In 1936, a black man was killed by an Atlanta policeman who became a KKK leader. We explore why the city doesn’t recognize the case as a lynching.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice, Inequality
America’s drug war, revealed
How a baggie of crack cocaine packed with fear, distortion and misconceptions and one presidential address in the 1980s helped shape the war on drugs.
Posted inCriminal Justice
The mystery of Mountain Jane Doe
Investigators dig up an unidentified murder victim, decades after she was buried, in an attempt to give her back her name.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
10 years or life
An accused man faces an impossible choice in New Orleans. Plus, a new district attorney in Philadelphia sets out to undo the work of those who came be
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
The victims who don’t count
Seven states won’t give victim aid to people with criminal histories. The policies fall hardest on black families.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, Immigration, Kids on the Line, Law Enforcement, National Security, The Trump Era
Immigration numbers illustrate lives affected by Trump-era policies
Key numbers show how policy changes have touched people of all ages, some just arriving, others who have lived in the U.S. for most of their lives.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Criminal Justice, Immigration, The Trump Era
Staff describe Georgia immigrant detention center as ‘ticking bomb’
Stewart Detention Center, where two immigrants died, had no psychiatrist and dangerously low staffing levels, internal records show.
Posted inAccountability, Criminal Justice
California Conservation Corps ignored warning signs before fatal van crash
Facts and circumstances never disclosed until now tell a complicated story about the agency’s role in a collision that killed three corps members.
Posted inCriminal Justice, Guns and Society
Austin stops selling police guns after Texas Standard/Reveal investigation
City officials said they were worried that guns sold to the public would end up in the hands of criminals.