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My name is Dan Nguyen and I'm a journalist, programmer and photographer.
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Tag Archives: crime
Yu Yao’s killer sentenced
Last May, I blogged about a murder case that caught my eye: Yu Yao, a 23-year-old Chinese immigrant, was raped and fatally beaten as she walked home from the grocery store in Flushing, Queens. Even in the statistically safe streets… Continue reading
Is Solitary Confinement Torture? From Atul Gawande and the New Yorker
Thanks to longform.org for spotlighting another thought-provoking piece by Dr. Atul Gawande in the New Yorker. The tag line is: Hellhole: The United States holds tens of thousands of inmates in long-term solitary confinement. Is this torture? Dr. Gawande’s reporting… Continue reading
NYPD’s Feris Jones is too old for this shit
“Lethal Weapon” reference inspired by @andymboyle From the New York Times: Off-duty NYPD officer Feris Jones was at Sabine’s Hallway, a beauty salon in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, when a robber came in, brandishing a gun, and ordered her and the other… Continue reading
Calm under pressure, New Orleans
Contrasting testimony in the New York Times’ story on the Danziger Bridge shootings: “The federal government has clearly forgotten or chosen to ignore the circumstances police officers were working under and clearly chose not to factor in any of those… Continue reading
Who was Yu Yao? Rape-and-homicide case in downtown Flushing (updated)
Update 4/28/2011: – Carlos Salazar Cruz, 29, is sentenced to the maximum term of 22-years to life for confessing to the second-degree murder of Yu Yao. Update 6/1/2010: The accused killer appears in court. Update 5/28/2010: Chinese residents patrol the… Continue reading
Coding for Journalists 102: Who’s in Jail Now: Collecting info from a county jail site
This is part 2 of a 4-part series in introductory coding for journalists. Go here for the first lesson. This lesson and code will still be verbose, but will have a lot less hand-holding than the previous one.