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Police misconduct biggest single cause of 2,900 wrongful convictions
Police misconduct is a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. Just over 2,900 people have been.
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Encircling protesters and targeting journalists undermine right to assemble
The right to assemble is as American as apple pie. It is written in the First Amendment — “the.
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Most St. Louis police officers who kill civilians are hidden from the public eye
Most of the 79 St. Louis area police officers who killed people in recent years have escaped public scrutiny,.
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Police misconduct records secret, hard to access
Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states — 32 of them.
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New Illinois police reform bill makes state police misconduct database secret
This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Illinois’ historic criminal justice reform law, hailed as.
