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Village Voice

Best Article Crime

Free Fallin'

How skateboard legend Mark “Gator” Anthony was born again, first as a street preacher, and then as a rapist and murderer.

Cory Johnson Village Voice Dec 1992 25min Permalink

Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study Is Junk Science

The underage prostitution study that was cited extensively in the congressional hearings that resulted in the removal of Craigslist’s Erotic Services turns out to be the work of a for-hire business consulting firm and, scientifically, completely bogus.

Nick Pinto Village Voice Mar 2011 15min Permalink

Best Article World

The (Chinese) Gangs of New York

Nicky Louie and the Ghost Shadows.

Mark Jacobson Village Voice Jan 1977 15min Permalink

Crime

Inside the Nitrous Mafia

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

John H. Tucker Village Voice Jul 2010 20min Permalink

Crime

The Supermax Solution

When New York built a prison designed to house two men in a single cell, it launched a new experiment in crime control. A look at life inside this prison and in the tiny town surrounding it.

Jennifer Gonnerman Village Voice May 1999 20min Permalink

Crime

The NYPD Tapes: Inside a Bed-Stuy Precinct

In 2008, a Brooklyn cop grew gravely concerned about how the public was being served. So he began carrying a digital sound recorder, secretly recording his colleagues and superiors.

Graham Rayman Village Voice May 2010 25min Permalink

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