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Members of the Chicago Police Department put up tape and clear the scene of a fatal shooting in June in the city's East Garfield Park neighborhood.

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Closing Argument
The Problem With The FBI’s Missing Crime Data
Many police departments have not adopted the feds’ new reporting system, muddling the picture about national crime trends.
A New York Police Department ambulance is parked on the right, with an officer on a motorcycle behind it. A officer's chest is out of focus in the foreground on the left.
Family members of Magali Alberto, who was shot and killed at a traffic light, at a press conference held by the Los Angeles Police Department on May 28, 2020.
News April 8, 2021
Murders Rose Last Year. Black and Hispanic Neighborhoods Were Hit Hardest.
A COVID-strained social safety net. Entrenched distrust between cops and communities of color. "2020 was a tinderbox."
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Members of the Chicago Police Department put up tape and clear the scene of a fatal shooting in June in the city’s East Garfield Park neighborhood.
News September 20, 2016
The Most Dangerous Neighborhood, the Most Inexperienced Cops
In Chicago and elsewhere, rookies are cannon fodder while vets police the safer neighborhoods.
By Andrew Fan
Feature May 4, 2016
American Sheriff
David Clarke, the Trump-loving, pro-mass-incarceration Fox News favorite, is challenging criminal-justice reform—and stereotypes.
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A member of the 18th Street Gang being arrested in Los Angeles in September 1994.
Q&A March 3, 2016
“Ghettoside” Author Jill Leovy on What We Have Learned Since Rodney King
Not nearly enough, she says
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The Frame December 22, 2014
A Summer in Camden
Andrew Renneisen captures the collateral damage of street violence.
Photographs by Andrew Renneisen
Justice Lab November 24, 2014
10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline
From aging to gentrification to Prozac.
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