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News April 8
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."
By Weihua Li and Beth Schwartzapfel
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.
By Maurice Chammah
Q&A March 3, 2016
“Ghettoside” Author Jill Leovy on What We Have Learned Since Rodney King
Not nearly enough, she says
By Bill Keller
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.
By Dana Goldstein
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