For the third time since Dec. 31, a Colorado sheriff’s deputy has been killed in a shooting while taking a suspect into custody. Each time, the shootings have rattled the communities the deputies served and broken the hearts of parents, wives, siblings, children and fellow...
The Indianapolis Police Department is supposed to conduct a review every time an officer shoots at somebody. In 19 incidents over two years, including in at least six fatal shootings, that never happened, the Indianapolis Star reports. It didn’t happen when a reserve officer fired...
In 2008, 18-year-old “Marie” was raped in her apartment near Seattle, Washington. But within a few days of reporting the assault to police, Marie, whose full name remains unidentified, became the subject of the police investigation. As Pulitzer Prize winning reporters T. Christian Miller and Ken...
Based on an informal running poll I’ve taken among friends and colleagues, people seem to be pretty evenly divided between enjoying or despising the raft of articles that show up this time of year predicting (some might suggest “pontificating”) what’s ahead in the coming months....
The U.S. murder total rose in 2015, 2016, and the first half of 2017. Meanwhile, an opioid epidemic has led to the deadliest drug overdose crisis in U.S. history, with nearly 64,000 drug overdose deaths in 2016. A criminal justice expert says that these two...
Benjamin D. Battles is the solicitor general of Vermont, which filed an amicus brief with 34 other states and the commonwealth of Puerto Rico in support of the federal government in United States v. Microsoft. Should a private company be able shield evidence of a crime...