Crime Story Daily

So You Want to Reduce Crime? Bryce Covert, The Nation

Biden to urge cities to spend Covid relief money on police, crime prevention Shannon Pettypiece, NBC News

Increased police spending leads to more misdemeanor arrests. Brenden Beck, Slate

A Heedless Majority David Cole, New York Review of Books

How Christian Nationalism Perverted the Judicial System and Gutted Our Rights Katherine Stewart, New Republic

The Fight Over Abortion History Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times

Return to Fear City Felipe De La Hoz, Hell Gate

Gun Homicides in 2020 Surged to Highest Level in 26 Years Zusha Elinson, Wall Street Journal

Gun deaths surged during the pandemic’s first year, the CDC reports. Roni Caryn Rabin and Tim Arango, New York Times

The Woman Who Killed Roe Kerry Howley, New York Magazine

The Abortion Restrictions That Will Snap Into Place the Minute Roe Goes Down Matt Ford, New Republic

Abortion bans and penalties would vary widely by state Megan Messerly and Alice Miranda Ollstein, Politico

Scooping the Supreme Court Jane Mayer, The New Yorker

The Supreme Court Was Broken Long Before the Leak Eric Holder and Sam Koppelman, Time Magazine

The Feigned Ignorance and Callous Indifference of the Supreme Court’s Anti-Roe Majority Emily Cooke, New Republic

More than 100 deaths a day: Gun violence reached ‘staggering’ record in 2020, report says Ryan W. Miller, USA Today

Gun Deaths Rose 28% During Pandemic: Study The Crime Report 

How the crime rate is preventing some US cities from the ‘return to normal’ Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA Today