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89 stories published since 2008

The FBI Is Investigating Massive Embezzlement of Border Patrol Union Funds

***** Offenders Were Becoming Cops. After Our Stories, Alaska’s Governor Wants That To End.

Alaska’s Law Enforcement Crisis Is a Public Emergency. Here’s How Experts Want to Fix It.

The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence

Prosecutors Dropping ***** ***** Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned

5 Things You Need to Know About Hate Crimes in America

New York City Council Passes Legislation to Help Workers in Private Trash Industry

Agency Policing Tent City for Immigrant ***** Lacks Experience Investigating ***** Crimes Involving *****ren

FBI Moves to Fix Critical Flaw in Its Crime Reporting System

Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been Disciplined — Including the Chief Who Keeps Promoting Them

When It Comes to *****, Just Because a Case Is Cleared Doesn’t Mean It’s Solved

Diversion Programs Say They Offer a Path Away From Court, but Critics Say the Tolls Are Hefty

When Public Records Aren’t Public

In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops

Chicago Police Win Big When Appealing Discipline

Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics

Chilling New Report Cites Greater Death Toll in Allende Massacre

Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

Street Hustle: The Truth Behind the ‘New’ Police Tool for Confronting Fentanyl Menace

Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over

New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement

Unreliable and Unchallenged

‘No Field Test is Fail Safe’: Meet the Chemist Behind Houston’s Police Drug Kits

Officials Outraged After ‘Shocking’ Report on NYPD Kicking People Out of Homes

A Brutal Crime, Often Terribly Investigated

***** is *****, Isn’t It?

Police Brutality from Chicago to Gitmo and More in MuckReads Weekly

Deadly Force, in Black and White

The Best Reporting on Federal Push to Militarize Local Police

Missing: A Boy and The Evidence Against His Accused Killer

The 24 States That Have Sweeping Self-Defense Laws Just Like Florida’s

NYC’s Anti-Profiling Law: ‘Not Worth Paper It’s Written On’

Drive-by Scanning: Officials Expand Use and Dose of Radiation for Security Screening

U.S. Insurance Firm Neglects Survivors of Iraqi Translators, May Face Criminal Charges

Six More Charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge Shootings

In New Orleans, Chaos in the Streets, and in Police Ranks Too

FBI Opens Inquiry Into Death of Henry Glover

Air Marshals and the Law

Air Marshals: Undercover and Under Arrest