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In 1996, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn’t Had a Mass Shooting Since.

Will Oremus

Oct 02, 2017 7:30 AM
Police Officers Need to Accept the Risk That Comes With Showing Restraint

Leon Neyfakh

Sept 18, 2017 9:22 PM
Profiling White Supremacists Won’t Stop White Supremacist Terrorism

Leon Neyfakh

Aug 25, 2017 8:30 AM
Can Mixed Martial Arts Training Make Police Officers Less Dangerous?

Michael Thomsen

Aug 10, 2017 11:02 AM
What the Response to a Police Shooting Sounds Like When a Black Cop Kills a White Woman

Leon Neyfakh

July 24, 2017 9:52 PM
She Didn’t Brag or Leave Clues. She Killed Her Patients, Then Went Home to Play Computer Games.

Daniel Engber

July 24, 2017 5:55 AM
Forty-Seven Years After Being Shot, Clai Lasher-Sommers Is Still Trying to Heal

Elizabeth Van Brocklin

July 11, 2017 5:11 PM
Top Cops Are Trying to Appeal to Donald Trump’s Brain on Criminal Justice Reform. That Might Not Work.

Leon Neyfakh

Feb 13, 2017 5:47 PM
James Bailey Admits He’s a Liar. But He Swears He’s Not a Murderer.

Leon Neyfakh

Feb 07, 2017 5:55 AM
Donald Trump’s Justice Department Could Bring Back the Worst Aspects of the War on Drugs

Leon Neyfakh

Nov 21, 2016 3:27 PM
Why Two Clear-Cut Cases of Police Violence Might Not Lead to Murder Convictions

Leon Neyfakh

Nov 11, 2016 4:02 PM
The Media Either Downplayed or Overplayed the Murder Spike. Here’s a More Honest Reading.

Leon Neyfakh

Sept 27, 2016 6:56 PM
Legally Justifiable Police Shootings Aren’t Always Morally Defensible. So Says Charlotte’s Top Cop.

Leon Neyfakh

Sept 21, 2016 1:45 PM
When Police Officers Take Off-Duty Jobs, Do They Work for the People, or Are They Guns for Hire?

Leon Neyfakh

Sept 01, 2016 10:00 AM
How Bad Prosecutors Cause Bad Policing

Taylor Pendergrass

Aug 16, 2016 2:09 PM
William Bratton Was a Proudly Political, Skillfully Manipulative Police Chief

Leon Neyfakh

Aug 03, 2016 4:21 PM
Why Prosecutors Failed to Win Convictions in the Freddie Gray Cases

Leon Neyfakh

July 27, 2016 2:52 PM
A Powerful and Pragmatic Approach to Police and Violence at the DNC

Leon Neyfakh

July 27, 2016 1:08 AM
A Texas Prosecutor Jailed a Rape Victim to Ensure Her Testimony Against Her Attacker

Leon Neyfakh

July 22, 2016 3:09 PM
Donald Trump Is a Fearmonger. But He’s Not Wrong About America’s Troubling Crime Spike.

Leon Neyfakh

July 21, 2016 11:03 PM