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Monday September 13, 2021

In the Shadow of 9/11 Samuel Moyn, The Nation I’m a Pakistani-American Muslim in a Prison 5 Miles From the Twin Towers. Since 9/11, I’ve Been Treated Like the Enemy Tariq Maqbool, The Marshall Project The Forever Trial at Guantánamo Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker ‘The Longest Shadow’: 9/11 leads to the militarization of US police departments Lucien Bruggeman, Jinsol Jung, Sandy Lee, Evan Simon, Tonya Simpson, and Josh Margolin, ABC News NYPD’s Legacy Of Police Surveillance, From Black Panthers To Mosques To Black Lives Matter Matt Katz, Gothamist 9/11 and the Rise of the (Unionized) Security Officer Sarah Jones, New York Magazine If...

Crime Story Daily Highlights – Week 109

This is a curated selection of highlights from Crime Story Daily this week. On the criminal justice policy front: Nearly a year and half since the police murder of George Floyd, a piece from MSNBC explores the past, present, and future of “defund the police.” Last summer, “defund” became a progressive rallying cry, echoing from protesters in the streets to city halls across the country. But now, amid a purported surge in violent crime, many cities across the US that cut police budgets in response to calls for sweeping police reform are swiftly reversing course. A piece from Texas Monthly...

Friday September 10, 2021

‘I can’t believe the numbers’: Mass shootings, homicide rates, gun sales hit highest levels since 1990s Trevor Hughes, USA Today White House pulls nomination of ATF chief amid pushback over gun-control advocacy Seung Min Kim and Tyler Pager, Washington Post Yale study finds that gun violence is a ‘contagious’ social epidemic YaleNews We’re ‘interrupting violence’ in Minneapolis, one lawn chair at a time Louis King and Jerry McAfee, Washington Post Ben Dugan Works for CVS. His Job Is Battling a $45 Billion Crime Spree. Rebecca Ballhaus and Shalini Ramachandran, Wall Street Journal ‘Woke’ corporations are funding groups working to undermine criminal justice reform Radley...

Thursday September 8, 2021

What We Didn’t Know on 9/11 Fred Kaplan, Slate For Gen Z, Sept. 11 is history. Here’s how they’ve come to understand the attacks. Grace Hauck, USA Today ‘Reopening Old Wounds’: When 9/11 Remains Are Identified, 20 Years Later Corey Kilgannon, New York Times My Husband Died on 9/11. I Am Still Waiting for a Trial of His Killers. Kristen Breitweiser, The Intercept 20 years after 9/11, mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed still awaits trial. What went wrong? Ken Dilanian, NBC News Gitmo’s Forgotten Ex-Detainees Clair MacDougall, The Nation Rattles And Tinhorns: A Sketchy History Of Policing In New York Until 9/11 Jim O’Grady, Gothamist How the...

Wednesday September 7, 2021

Who Killed Criminal Justice Reform in Texas? Christopher Hooks, Texas Monthly The Manifold Threats of the Texas Abortion Law Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker How Republicans Became Anti-Choice Sue Halpern, New York Review of Books A Legendary Abortion Rights Activist on What Comes After Texas Heather Souvaine Horn, New Republic Justice Department to protect women seeking an abortion in Texas Hamza Shaban, Washington Post ‘It is powerful to suddenly have a voice’: reframing women in criminal justice Matt Fidler, The Guardian No one knows how many Indigenous women are murdered each year. That makes the deaths hard to stop. Graham Lee Brewer, NBC News Cases...

Tuesday September 6, 2021

‘Defund the Police’ dominated 2020. What happened? Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC ‘Blinded by police’: my search for fellow survivors of an alarming trend Wil Sands, The Guardian Beverly Hills: 99% of people arrested by ‘safe streets’ unit were Black, suit says Sam Levin, The Guardian Is It Time to Rethink ‘Broken Windows’ Policing? Jill Snider and Maya Szilak, The Crime Report From Crisis to Care Katherine Beckett, Forrest Stuart, and Monica Bell, Inquest California police reform bills move toward passage in reduced form Alexei Koseff, San Francisco Chronicle Former Prosecutor in Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Faces Criminal Charges Alyssa Lukpat, New York Times Fate of Arbery trial in...