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The NYT’s Cop Stop-and-Frisk Graphic

Update: This redditor said “I find it amusing that an article about misleading graphics uses a misleading graphic of its own,” when in fact, my edited graphic was not misleading, it was just wrong. Corrected now. This is a week… Continue reading

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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

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Revisiting the New Orleans Police Shootings

ProPublica, with Frontline and the Times-Picayune, just started publishing a multi-part series examining unsolved shootings linked to the New Orleans police. One of the sparks for re-opening a painful chapter in the Katrina saga was this photo, captured by freelancer… Continue reading

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