Celeb Prosecutor’s Own Kidnapping Is Now A True Crime Fiasco
January 30, 2023
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She survived a brutal kidnapping and attempted rape—and wrote a book about it. But did it happen the way she says?
January 18, 2022
The Manhattan DA Started a Panic with Supposedly Soft-on-Crime Policies. His Critics Are Wrong.
Like other progressive prosecutors, Alvin Bragg is trying to acknowledge that prison time doesn’t fight crime.
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The Fashionable Police Strategy That Is Just Mass Incarceration By Another Name
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Biden’s Focus on Marijuana Is Part of the Problem
October 21, 2022
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The Quiet Political Rise of David Sacks, Silicon Valley’s Prophet of Urban Doom
October 20, 2022
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Like his pals Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, Sacks is using his wealth and online clout to unite conservatives and former leftists in a reactionary movement against liberalism.
The NYPD Brutalized Protesters in 2020. Will It Face a Reckoning?
October 8, 2022
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On June 4, 2020, hundreds of protesters marched through the Mott...
Police Are Bragging About Big Fentanyl Busts, Repeating the Drug War’s Dark History
September 20, 2022
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Politicians and lawmakers are equating large-scale fentanyl seizures with progress in combating the drug’s epidemic, forgetting the lessons from the age of crack.
Why Even Progressive Prosecutors Won’t Be Able to Keep Women Who Have Abortions Out of Jail
July 13, 2022
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How States Will Target Pregnant People Now that Roe Has Fallen
June 24, 2022
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After the Dobbs decision, every pregnancy is a potential crime scene.
What the San Francisco DA Recall Really Tells Us. And What it Doesn’t.
June 9, 2022
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The city's demographics mattered, as did Chesa Boudin's outsider status. But the politics of punishment are still too complicated to draw a neat conclusion.
School Police Don’t Stop Shootings. So What Are They For?
June 7, 2022
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Each day following the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left...
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May 16, 2022
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Anna Borkowski accused three men of rape. Why did prosecutors stop her?