He prosecuted George Floyd’s killer

politico.com Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is consumed by a quest to examine how policing reached a crisis point. Ellison led the prosecution of Derek Chauvin, the disgraced…

American policing has changed since George Floyd’s murder

economist.com T Chris Thomsen and Rick Zimmerman, two longtime homicide investigators with the Minneapolis Police Department ( ), and they’ll tell you their job has changed markedly over…

SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras

theregister.com San Francisco cops earlier this year obtained permission to access 450 surveillance cameras belonging to private businesses to live monitor protests expected following the…

How one journalist uses Instagram to pull back the curtain on her reporting process

niemanlab.org As a D.C. crime and criminal justice beat reporter for The Washington Post, Emily Davies has a few strategies for understanding how her sources see the world. Following…

Asian and Asian American professionals are burned out

fortune.com The beginning of 2023 was marked by deep tragedy in both the Asian and Black communities. The killing of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols sparked outrage, with renewed calls for…

How Republican states are eroding local democracy

vox.com Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee | Rogelio V. Solis for AP Republican leaders in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas are targeting Democratic communities and institutions Texas,…