Investigative Reporting on Police

I Cover Cops as an Investigative Reporter. Here Are Five Ways You Can Start Holding Your Department Accountable.

by Andrew Ford, Asbury Park Press,

June 4, 2020, 6 a.m. EDT

The FBI Is Investigating Massive Embezzlement of Border Patrol Union Funds

by A.C. Thompson and Jeff Ernsthausen,

Feb. 24, 2020, 3:15 p.m. EST

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

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News,

Jan. 29, 2020, 5 a.m. EST

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

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News,

Dec. 21, 2019, 11 a.m. EST

The Village Where Every Cop Has Been Convicted of Domestic Violence

by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News,

July 18, 2019, 11:30 a.m. EDT

Prosecutors Dropping Child Porn Charges After Software Tools Are Questioned

by Jack Gillum,

April 3, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT

5 Things You Need to Know About Hate Crimes in America

by Rachel Glickhouse,

March 22, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT

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

by Kiera Feldman for ProPublica,

Feb. 28, 2019, 4:26 p.m. EST

Agency Policing Tent City for Immigrant Kids Lacks Experience Investigating Sex Crimes Involving Children

by Topher Sanders and Michael Grabell,

Dec. 14, 2018, 2:20 p.m. EST

FBI Moves to Fix Critical Flaw in Its Crime Reporting System

by Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

Dec. 6, 2018, 7 p.m. EST

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

by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune,

Nov. 15, 2018, 8:15 p.m. EST

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

by Bernice Yeung, ProPublica, Mark Greenblatt and Mark Fahey, Newsy, and Emily Harris, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting,

Nov. 15, 2018, 10 a.m. EST

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

by Rebecca Burns for ProPublica Illinois,

Nov. 13, 2018, 4 a.m. CST

When Public Records Aren’t Public

by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica,

Aug. 3, 2018, 5 a.m. EDT

In New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops

by Joe Sexton,

Jan. 16, 2018, 3:26 p.m. EST

Chicago Police Win Big When Appealing Discipline

by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica,

Dec. 14, 2017, 5 a.m. CST

Why America Fails at Gathering Hate Crime Statistics

by Ken Schwencke,

Dec. 4, 2017, 8 a.m. EST

Chilling New Report Cites Greater Death Toll in Allende Massacre

by Ginger Thompson,

Nov. 21, 2017, 3:24 p.m. EST

Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government

by Jessica Huseman and Annie Waldman,

June 15, 2017, 8 a.m. EDT

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

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Dec. 22, 2016, 9 a.m. EST

Where Traditional DNA Testing Fails, Algorithms Take Over

by Lauren Kirchner,

Nov. 4, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

New York City Police Receptive to Some Reforms of Nuisance Enforcement

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Nov. 3, 2016, 4:25 p.m. EDT

Unreliable and Unchallenged

by Ryan Gabrielson,

Oct. 28, 2016, 11 a.m. EDT

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

by Ryan Gabrielson,

July 11, 2016, 8 a.m. EDT

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

by Sarah Ryley for ProPublica and The New York Daily News,

Feb. 8, 2016, 8:59 a.m. EST

A Brutal Crime, Often Terribly Investigated

by T. Christian Miller,

Dec. 21, 2015, 4:29 p.m. EST

Rape is Rape, Isn’t It?

by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Tom Meagher, The Marshall Project,

Dec. 18, 2015, 1:26 p.m. EST

Police Brutality from Chicago to Gitmo and More in MuckReads Weekly

by Amanda Zamora and Terry Parris Jr.,

Feb. 20, 2015, 5 p.m. EST

Deadly Force, in Black and White

by Ryan Gabrielson, Eric Sagara and Ryann Grochowski Jones,

Oct. 10, 2014, 11:07 a.m. EDT

The Best Reporting on Federal Push to Militarize Local Police

by Hanqing Chen,

Aug. 19, 2014, 8:30 a.m. EDT

Missing: A Boy and The Evidence Against His Accused Killer

by Joaquin Sapien and Hanna Trudo,

Dec. 23, 2013, 5 a.m. EST

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

by Cora Currier,

March 22, 2012, 12:05 p.m. EDT

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

by Justin Elliott,

March 2, 2012, 12:53 p.m. EST

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

by Michael Grabell,

Jan. 27, 2012, 9:30 a.m. EST

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

by T. Christian Miller,

May 23, 2011, 9:19 a.m. EDT

Six More Charged in New Orleans Danziger Bridge Shootings

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica,

July 13, 2010, 5:30 p.m. EDT

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

by A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, and Brendan McCarthy and Laura Maggi, The New Orleans Advocate/The Times-Picayune,

Dec. 12, 2009, 11 p.m. EST

FBI Opens Inquiry Into Death of Henry Glover

by A.C. Thompson,

March 28, 2009, 7:14 p.m. EDT

Air Marshals and the Law

by Michael Grabell,

Nov. 13, 2008, 12 p.m. EST

Air Marshals: Undercover and Under Arrest

by Michael Grabell,

Nov. 13, 2008, 5 a.m. EST