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Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Police misconduct biggest single cause of 2,900 wrongful convictions

  • By Elizabeth Tharakan
  • February 24, 2022

Police misconduct is a leading cause of wrongful convictions in the United States. Just over 2,900 people have been.

Media News, Midwest, Police Accountability Project

Encircling protesters and targeting journalists undermine right to assemble

  • By William H. Freivogel
  • February 3, 2022

The right to assemble is as American as apple pie. It is written in the First Amendment — “the.

News, Police Accountability Project

Police misconduct records secret, hard to access

  • By Kallie Cox and William Freivogel
  • December 22, 2021

Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states — 32 of them.

Media News, Midwest

New Illinois police reform bill makes state police misconduct database secret

  • By Kallie Cox
  • May 18, 2021

This reporting was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Illinois’ historic criminal justice reform law, hailed as.

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