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The opioid Tramadol is used to relieve moderate to moderately severe pain.
News August 2, 2017
Guess Who’s Tracking Your Prescription Drugs?
Your doctor, your pharmacist... and the police.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Commentary February 8, 2016
Black and Unarmed: Behind the Numbers
What the Black Lives Matter movement misses about those police shootings.
By Heather Mac Donald
Commentary December 15, 2015
Who is Putting the Most People in Jail? Not New York, Chicago, or LA.
A new tool drills down on hidden incarceration rates.
By Jeremy Travis
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act into law at the Capitol in Albany on Jan. 15, 2013.
Commentary December 2, 2015
New York Disarms the ‘Mentally Ill’
Why mental health experts are up in arms.
By James B. Jacobs and Zoe Fuhr
News July 2, 2015
Is Google More Accurate Than the FBI?
In tracking deaths by police, the tech world might beat Uncle Sam.
By Mark Hansen
Q&A April 2, 2015
Why Are American Cops So Bad at Catching Killers?
“Every year, more than 5,000 murderers walk free.”
By Tom Meagher
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