While ICE makes headlines, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency continues to detain and search American citizens far from the actual border, and it doesn’t need a warrant.
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Posted inCrime, investigations, Quotes
In Just 40 Hours, You Too Can Be an Expert
Pamela Colloff took the same 40-hour course that is the sum total of the training many blood spatter experts claim… and it did not inspire confidence in the reliability of this particular forensic “science.”
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis
Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
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This Month in Podcasts: Innocent Until Proven Grifty
Longreads turns 10 in two months! @Longreads is an Aries?!
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Quotes
The Good Guys Aren’t Always the Good Guys
“About 50 of the 800 women housed at Rosie’s at any one time are being sexually victimized by staff.”
Posted inNonfiction
Fire/Flood: A Southern California Pastoral
In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries.
Posted inCrime, Quotes, Science & Nature
Our Future Success Depends on Rocks from the Sky
Steve Curry’s meteor-hunting hobby went from business to obsession to a connection with Cliven Bundy, and eventually landed him in jail after an armed standoff with law enforcement.
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‘Writing This Book Was a Weird Séance ’: An Interview With Deborah Levy
“If you have the depth, the surface can be as light as it’s possible to make it…I don’t mind that ‘Swimming Home’ is sometimes described as a ‘beach read’ — actually that’s a triumph.”
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Japan: A Longform Reading List of Longform Writing
Armchair travel is more important than ever, now that pandemic has forced us to stay indoors. Reading can take you across the ocean.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Highlight, Quotes
Redlining in the Lap Lane
An incident of police brutality in Texas highlights the ties between private pools, homeowners’ associations, and racist housing policies.
