How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]
By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]
By Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta & Justin Pritchard Associated Press The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts […]
By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]
By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]
By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]
By Steven Brill The Atlantic This is the story of the first 15 years of how we have dealt with newfound fear—how we have confronted, sometimes heroically and sometimes irrationally, […]
By Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Predicting crime has always been part of police work; any beat cop can tell you that a particularly dark street corner is vulnerable to […]
By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]
By Clare Sestanovich The Marshall Project In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting last summer, broad (and rare) consensus emerged in support of a tangible reform to policing practices: […]