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 exonerated……
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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 right……
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 including……
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 a……