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Who Runs This Police Department? Lots of Officers Who’ve Been Reprimanded or...
by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune The Elkhart, Indiana, Police Department has long allowed officers with problematic histories to stay on the job or even climb...
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Nearly All the Officers in Charge of an Indiana Police Department Have Been...
by Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune When Ed Windbigler became Elkhart’s police chief in January 2016, one of his first tasks was selecting his top command staff....
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Outside Review Faults Orlando Fire Department Policies and Mistakes in Pulse...
by Abe Aboraya, WMFE An independent review of the Orlando Fire Department’s response to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting has concluded that the agency was not prepared for the disaster and did not...
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Get Out of Jail for a Price: The First Investigation From Our Illinois...
by Steve Mills This week, we published the first story from our Illinois reporting project, an initiative to fund investigative reporting around the state that we announced this year. Freelance writer...
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Why the Perfect Red-State Democrat Lost
by Alec MacGillis Taylor Sappington heard the call like so many other Democrats in the year after Nov. 8, 2016. He had seen Donald Trump coming, homing in on his little town of Nelsonville, Ohio, in...
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Are You a College Journalist of Color? Apply for ProPublica’s Emerging...
by ProPublica Are you a college student of color interested in doing great journalism? ProPublica wants to help. Apply for our Emerging Reporters program by Dec. 2. What is ProPublica’s Emerging...
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How HUD’s Inspection System Fails Low-Income Tenants Nationwide
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan This year, The Southern Illinoisan and ProPublica have reviewed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s system of inspecting publicly subsidized...
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HUD Inspect
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan, Dan Nguyen, special to ProPublica, Sophie Chou, ProPublica, and The 2018 ProPublica Hack Week Participants
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“Pretty Much a Failure”: HUD Inspections Pass Dangerous Apartments Filled...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan In the winter of 2017, a toddler was rushed to the emergency room after swallowing rodent poison inside her family’s unit at the federally subsidized Clay...
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Brothers Whom Authorities Linked to Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Had Flyer...
by Catherine Trautwein, Frontline, and A.C. Thompson, ProPublica When federal agents searched the Washington, D.C., house of two brothers they had linked to the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue shooter,...
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ACLU of Illinois Demands Removal of Children in DCFS Care From Troubled...
by Duaa Eldeib The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois on Friday took the state’s child welfare agency to federal court to attempt to force the removal of all children in its care from a...
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Indiana State Police Turn Down Elkhart Mayor’s Request for Broad Review of...
by Christian Sheckler, South Bend Tribune, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica The Indiana State Police have declined a request by Elkhart Mayor Tim Neese to investigate his city’s Police Department in the...
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Where Do We Find Our Story Ideas?
by Jodi S. Cohen At the beginning of the year, we asked ProPublica Illinois readers what they wanted to know about how we do our work. Thoughtful, challenging questions have been rolling in ever...
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Photos: An Indonesian Village That’s Fighting for Its Life
by Ashley Gilbertson, special to ProPublica
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An Atomwaffen Member Sketched a Map to Take the Neo-Nazis Down. What Path...
by A.C. Thompson It was a grisly scene inside Apartment 3722 at the Hamptons, a gated community in Tampa, Florida. One body lay face up on the floor, wedged between a wall and an air mattress. A...
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Oregon Officials Call for Changes of Laws on Criminally Insane
by Jayme Fraser, The Malheur Enterprise Oregon’s attorney general said the number of people deemed criminally insane who commit new crimes after their release is “definitely too high” and must be...
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9-Year-Old Alleges Staff Member at Chicago Psychiatric Hospital Choked and...
by Duaa Eldeib As Illinois’ child welfare agency works to clear out its remaining patients at a Chicago psychiatric hospital beset by allegations of sexual abuse and assault, problems continue to...
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Photos: An Indonesian Village That’s Fighting for Its Life
by Ashley Gilbertson, special to ProPublica
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HUD Tallied Numerous Violations in New York City Public Housing. It Still...
by Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan For months, federal housing officials and prosecutors have alleged that the New York City Housing Authority misled them about conditions, rendering federal...
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