Jacksonville Sheriff Criticizes Our Reporting. We Respond.
by ProPublica ProPublica and the Florida Times-Union have spent several months reporting on the issuing of pedestrian tickets in Jacksonville and in other parts of Florida. The reporting has shown...
View ArticleIn New York, Crime Falls Along With Police Stops
by Joe Sexton If you grew up in New York City in the 1970s, the number can be hard to get your head around: 291. If you were a reporter in New York City in the early 1990s, the number can almost make...
View ArticleInnocent But Still Guilty
by Megan Rose After Fred Steese spent two decades in a Nevada prison for murder, evidence indicating that he was innocent was found buried in the prosecution’s files. It was proof that Steese, as he’d...
View ArticleSheriff’s Officers Working Black Section of Jacksonville to Get Bias Training
by Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union, and Topher Sanders, ProPublica The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office will begin bias training for its officers next week in what the office said is an effort to...
View Article‘Independent’ Watchdog’s Secret Funder: Conservative Small-Government Group
by Mick Dumke, ProPublica, and Dan Mihalopoulos, Chicago Sun-Times When former Chicago City Council inspector general Faisal Khan launched his not-for-profit anti-corruption group close to two years...
View ArticleBaltimore Judge Tosses Alford Plea, Rebuking Prosecutor
by Megan Rose In a hearing in Baltimore City Circuit Court today, a judge threw out Demetrius Smith’s conviction for a shooting he has long insisted he did not commit and chastised the prosecutor in...
View ArticleTrump’s Chosen: Who Made It Through A Year In The Whirlwind?
by Jessica Huseman, Ian MacDougall and Rob Weychert
View ArticleWatchdogging a Nonprofit Watchdog
by Mick Dumke and Logan Jaffe Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Earlier this week, we published a story with the Chicago Sun-Times that identifies a right-leaning public policy organization...
View ArticleRussian Politician Who Reportedly Sent Millions to NRA Has Long History in Spain
by Sebastian Rotella As the Spanish police investigated the presence of a notorious Russian organized crime group on the resort island of Mallorca in 2012, they realized that a key figure described by...
View ArticleReinventing Represent
by Allison McCartney and Derek Willis As of this writing and since late Friday night, Congress has been unable to reach agreement to fund the federal government, resulting in a shutdown. What better...
View ArticleMeet Column Setter
by Rob Weychert Grid systems are fundamental to many visual design processes. They govern the spatial relationships in a layout by establishing a set of standard sizes and positions for various...
View ArticleRauner Takes Aim at State Lawmakers Who Appeal Property Taxes
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune Gov. Bruce Rauner’s executive order seeking to bar state lawmakers from representing clients before a board that hears property tax appeals...
View ArticleManhattan District Attorney Says He’ll No Longer Accept Contributions From...
by Jesse Eisinger After controversy over how he handled two prominent investigations, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said he would no longer take campaign donations from defense attorneys...
View ArticleNewly Defanged, Top Consumer Protection Agency Drops Investigation of...
by Paul Kiel In 2013, ProPublica published an investigation of the subprime lender World Finance. World was charging annual interest rates that could exceed 200 percent, often trapping customers in...
View ArticleTrump NLRB Appointee Finds a Way Around Conflict of Interest Rules
by Ian MacDougall A Trump administration appointee to the National Labor Relations Board benefited the interests and clients of his former law firm when he cast the deciding vote to undo rules...
View ArticleProPublica, Audible Present ‘The Making of a Massacre’ Event Remembering...
ProPublica In March of 2011, a Mexican ranching town near the Texas border was besieged by unspeakable violence. Gunmen from the Zetas drug cartel — seeking vengeance against an alleged informant –...
View ArticleChicago Cop Under Investigation Again Over Social Media Posts
by Jodi S. Cohen In September, Chicago Police Officer John Catanzara made headlines after posting on Facebook a picture of himself, in uniform, holding an American flag and a homemade sign that read,...
View ArticleThe Red Cross Helped an Executive Get a Job at Save the Children After...
by Justin Elliott and Ariana Tobin When Save the Children hired Gerald Anderson in 2013, the global charity believed it was hiring a veteran humanitarian executive with a sterling resume. Anderson had...
View ArticleA Chicago Cop’s Facebook Posts and a City’s Struggle With Racism
by Jodi S. Cohen The Chicago Police Department says complaints against officers for making racial and ethnic slurs and other discriminatory comments have declined in recent years. But as a story we...
View ArticleJudge: Kushner Company Must Reveal Identities of Real Estate Partners
by Alec MacGillis A federal judge in Maryland ruled Friday that Jared Kushner’s family real estate company could not keep secret the identities of its partners in Baltimore-area apartment complexes...
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