Crime Story Daily

‘We Need Something Different’: Protesters March in Minneapolis After Police Killing Jay Senter, Sophie Kasakove, and Sergio Olmos, New York Times

Parents of Amir Locke say he was ‘executed’ by Minneapolis police during no-knock raid Holly Bailey, Washington Post

Body camera video shows Minneapolis police officers shooting Black man during no-knock warrant. Attorneys say he wasn’t the target Omar Jimenez, Ray Sanchez, Brad Parks, and Peter Nickeas, CNN

How a Plea Deal in the Arbery Hate Crime Case Unraveled Richard Fausset and Shaila Dewan, New York Times

Greg McMichael reverses plan to plead guilty to a hate crime in Ahmaud Arbery’s death NPR

Federal prosecutors saw a plea deal for Arbery’s killers as racial justice. His family thought otherwise. David Nakamura, Washington Post

The Rise and Rupture of Campaign Zero Ernest Owens, New York Magazine

Breaking down a fatal police shooting on a Tennessee highway Robert Klemko and Drea Cornejo, Washington Post

LAPD considering new limits on ‘pretextual stops’; police union objects Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times

(Mis)measuring the Shoplifting Crisis Charles Fain Lehman, The Dispatch

We need to understand America’s spike in murders Jeff Asher, CNN

Report Links Unemployment with Rise in Gun Crime During Pandemic Andrea Cipriano, The Crime Report

Judge rejects plea deal for man who killed Ahmaud Arbery Russ Bynum, AP News

‘We want 100% justice’: Judge rejects plea deal with man who killed Ahmaud Arbery N’dea Yancey-Bragg, Christal Hayes, and Raisa Habersham, USA Today

Grief Over Time Derecka Purnell, New York Magazine

The Once and Future Drug War James Marson, Julie Wernau, and David Luhnow, Wall Street Journal

Treating Addiction as a Crime Doesn’t Work. What Oregon Is Doing Just Might. Maia Szalavitz, New York Times

This Cook County judge gives convicts his cell number – if they complete addiction program Frank Main, Chicago Sun-Times