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August 14, 2025: The Garrison Project Folds Into Deep South Today, Focusing Its Criminal Justice Reporting on the Deep South Region
June 11, 2025: Baltimore’s homicide clearance rate is rising, but arrests for murder remain flat
March 4, 2025: YNW Melly's Trials Highlight Florida's Unconstitutional Death Penalty Law
February 3, 2025: Bail Is A Longstanding Problem in Baltimore. Is Maryland Searching For A Solution?
January 9, 2025: Who Is Voting For Reform Prosecutors?
December 23, 2024: Democratic Pundits Have A Pernicious Crime Problem
November 25, 2024: California Lets Defendants Challenge Racism In Court. Few Have Succeeded.
November 8, 2024: Baltimore Residents Held In Jail At Higher Rates Than Before Bail Reform
September 25, 2024: North Carolina Parole System Accused Of Blocking Release For People Who Committed Crimes As Children
September 20, 2024: Reports and Body-cam Video Raise Familiar Concerns About Baltimore Police Plainclothes Unit
August 28, 2024: The COVID-19 Homicide Spike Has Vanished
August 1, 2024: Claim of racial bias in Rowan County death penalty case cites U.S. Supreme Court decision
July 26, 2024: Taking a hard look at Baltimore's Gun Violence Reduction Strategy
July 8, 2024: Were Black jurors in North Carolina struck because of their race?
June 22, 2024: The Biggest Myth About the 1994 Crime Bill Still Haunts Joe Biden. It Shouldn’t.
June 8, 2024: Feds Closed a Prison Notorious for Abuse. Things Only Got Worse
May 10, 2024: New Laws Are Turning Police Into 'Super Citizens'
April 19, 2024: GOP Senate Candidate’s Error-Laden Memoir Villainized Baltimore, Freddie Gray
March 29, 2024: In historic North Carolina hearing, Joe Freeman Britt’s troubled past as prosecutor looms
March 21, 2024: Baltimore’s Spy Plane Was Ruled Unconstitutional in 2021. So Why Did One Murder Case Go to Trial Years Later?
February 24, 2024: A Potent Weapon For State Legislatures To Undermine Reform Prosecutors
February 23, 2024: Kim Ogg: DA Under Fire
January 22, 2024: An ‘Execute-Them-At-Any-Cost Mentality’: The Supreme Court’s New, Bloodthirsty Era
January 3, 2024: How Phase III Came To Be
December 25, 2023: Here We Go Again
November 15, 2023: Baltimore Police Unit Under Fire for Deadly Shootings, Questionable Stops
November 14, 2023: Reality Policing TV Is Back And More Pervasive Than Ever
November 3, 2023: Does The Allegheny County DA's Criminal Justice Strategy Unfairly Punish Black people?
October 13, 2023: In Louisiana, Police Reform Led Directly To A "Torture Warehouse."
September 20, 2023: Former Death Row Prisoner Files Lawsuit Against Moonlighting Prosecutor
September 19, 2023: Florida Has Found A New Way To Thwart Reform Prosecutors
August 23, 2023: Texas Takes Attacks on Austin to New Level With "Death Star" Law
July 6, 2023: Aim Lower
May 26, 2023: Data Undercuts Key Law Enforcement Claim About San Francisco's Fentanyl Trafficking Crackdown
May 4, 2023: After The Gun Trace Task Force Scandal, BPD Established New Plainclothes Units. Are They More Of The Same?
April 13, 2023: This Cop Unleashed A Reign Of Terror, Say The Wrongfully Accused
March 23, 2023: What If The Worst Crime Imaginable Never Happened
March 16, 2023: A Jail In Crisis
March 10, 2023: Justice Denied
February 14, 2023: A Cop Sexually Assaulted Their Son. Then Child Protective Services Retaliated.
February 1, 2023: Why Are So Few Being Released?
January 30, 2023: Celeb Prosecutor's Own Kidnapping Is Now A True Crime Fiasco
November 2, 2022: The Fashionable Police Strategy That Is Just Mass Incarceration By Another Name
October 21, 2022: Biden’s Focus on Marijuana Is Part of the Problem
October 20, 2022: The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom
October 8, 2022: The NYPD Brutalized Protesters in 2020. Will It Face a Reckoning?
September 20, 2022: Police Are Bragging About Big Fentanyl Busts, Repeating the Drug War’s Dark History
July 13, 2022: Why Even Progressive Prosecutors Won’t Be Able to Keep Women Who Have Abortions Out of Jail
June 24, 2022: How States Will Target Pregnant People Now that Roe Has Fallen
June 9, 2022: What the San Francisco DA Recall Really Tells Us. And What it Doesn’t.
June 7, 2022: School Police Don’t Stop Shootings. So What Are They For?
May 16, 2022: ‘We don't know how many women are out there like that’
April 11, 2022: Hochul’s Regressive Bail Rollbacks Untethered From Evidence
April 5, 2022: How Texas Became the Most Virulently Anti-Trans State in America
March 25, 2022: The Wrong Prosecutors Are Getting Recalled
March 8, 2022: The Real Reason Democrats Can't Agree On How To Address Rising Crime
March 2, 2022: The Biggest Threat to Trans Kids in Texas is Child Protective Services
February 15, 2022: Prescription Opioids Aren’t Driving the Overdose Crisis. Illicitly Manufactured Synthetic Opioids Are.
February 14, 2022: What an Analysis of 2,000 Shootings Tells Us About How to End Gun Violence
January 28, 2022: Eric Adams’ “Blueprint To End Gun Violence” Is a Trojan Horse
January 18, 2022: The Manhattan DA Started a Panic with Supposedly Soft-on-Crime Policies. His Critics Are Wrong.
January 13, 2022: Major Media Outlets Can’t Stop Describing Police Violence As ‘Officer Involved’ Incidents
January 12, 2022: David Simon Made Baltimore Detectives Famous. Now Their Cases Are Falling Apart.
December 15, 2021: She Was Open To Her Child Being Trans. Then The State Separated Them.
November 24, 2021: Give People Safe Drugs
November 8, 2021: North Carolina Appeals Courts Have Never Found That Prosecutors Discriminated Against Black Jurors. Two Cases Could Change That.
October 29, 2021: Human Trafficking Sting Nets No Human Trafficking Charges
October 26, 2021: Crime Rates Rise And Fall. The Police Mostly Have Nothing To Do With It.
October 8, 2021: Why Our Fixation On The Murder Rate Is Killing Us
October 4, 2021: White Riot

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