Crime Story Daily

Why Do We Call the Police? Lyra Walsh Fuchs, Dissent Magazine

Calls to ‘defund the police’ clash with reality for many Americans, city polls show Susan Page, USA Today

Baltimore’s Crime Plan Is Missing a Key Component: Community Buy-In J. Brian Charles, The Trace

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Opens, With Epstein at Its Center Benjamin Weiser and Rebecca Davis O’Brien, New York Times

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Trial Opens With Her Lawyer Diving Straight Into the Muck Seth Stevenson, Slate

Ghislaine Maxwell trial defense claims ‘Epstein by proxy’ Katie S. Phang, MSNBC

When Black Men Meet White Communities Rashawn Ray, Politico

The non-victory victory in the Ahmaud Arbery case Erin Aubry Kaplan, Los Angeles Times

What the Arbery and Rittenhouse Trials Can’t Do for America Joseph Margulies, Politico Magazine

Justice for Ahmaud Arbery Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker

Guilty, Guilty, Guilty Charles M. Blow, New York Times

Ahmaud Arbery’s Murderers Now Face Life in Prison Nicole Lewis and Jeremy Stahl, Slate

In Charlottesville, the Nazis Were Finally Held to Account Dahlia Lithwick, Slate

Spencer, Kessler, Cantwell and other white supremacists found liable in deadly Unite the Right rally Ellie Silverman, Ian Shapira, Tom Jackman, and John Woodrow Cox, Washington Post

Why Are the McMichaels So Scared? Nicole Lewis, Slate

Trial in Ahmaud Arbery’s killing nears going to the jury Russ Bynum, AP News

Defense attorneys blame Ahmaud Arbery for his own death during closing arguments Kayla Goggin, Courthouse News Service

Lawyers Clash Over Whether Pursuit of Arbery Was Justified Richard Fausset, Tariro Mzezewa, and Rick Rojas, New York Times