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Most St. Louis police officers who kill civilians are hidden from the public eye

January 27, 2022 by Orli Sheffey

Most of the 79 St. Louis area police officers who killed people in recent years have escaped public scrutiny, going unnamed both in media and department incident reports. Nearly half of them still are active officers today. In addition, public knowledge of police killings has significantly decreased, despite increased attention to police killings nationwide. In the City of … [Read more...] about Most St. Louis police officers who kill civilians are hidden from the public eye

Post-Ferguson police reform stalls among racial divisions

January 27, 2022 by William H. Freivogel and Orli Sheffey

ST. LOUIS - Ferguson became the Selma of the 21st century after Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown seven years ago. Protests transformed Black Lives Matter from a hashtag into the nation’s leading civil rights movement and forged a potent political coalition that elected Black reformers to top St. Louis offices, from prosecutor to congresswoman to mayor. Yet Ferguson … [Read more...] about Post-Ferguson police reform stalls among racial divisions

Police misconduct records secret, hard to access

December 22, 2021 by Kallie Cox and William Freivogel

Police misconduct records are either secret or difficult to access in a majority of states — 32 of them including Washington, D.C. But the breeze of openness is blowing. Seven big states have opened records in recent years — California, New York, Illinois, Colorado, Massachusetts and Maryland. Nineteen states now have laws that allow these records to be mostly available to … [Read more...] about Police misconduct records secret, hard to access

Journalism’s infatuation with Glenn Greenwald

April 21, 2014 by William H. Freivogel 1 Comment

Editor's note: This is an opinion column by William H. Freivogel. The journalism world’s embrace of Glenn Greenwald and his advocacy reporting is now complete with the award of the Pulitzer Prize to the Guardian for Greenwald’s disclosure of Edward Snowden’s National Security Agency secrets. As with many youthful infatuations, the journalism world has rushed headlong into … [Read more...] about Journalism’s infatuation with Glenn Greenwald

Election night viewing, GJR-style

November 9, 2012 by Compiled for GJR Leave a Comment

/* */ edToolbar() True confession: Gateway Journalism Review’s staff is made up of political junkies with long traditions of monitoring election-evening results. Our own political media monitoring likely mirrors that of much of the American population. So, at the risk of being too introspective, here is how GJR staffers spent Tuesday evening. John Jarvis, associate … [Read more...] about Election night viewing, GJR-style

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