Longform

  • Home
  • Popular
  • Best Articles
  • Podcast
  • Sections
    • Arts
    • Business
    • Crime
    • History
    • Politics
    • Science
    • Sex
    • Sports
    • Tech
    • World
    • All Sections
  • Collections
  • Reprints

Sponsored by the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh

  • Random Article
  • Lists

    • Best of 2017
    • Best of 2016
    • Best of 2015
    • Best of 2014
    • Best of 2013
    • Best of 2012
  • Archive

    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Support Us
  • More

    • Newsletter
    • Suggest Article
    • About
    • Contact
    • Advertise
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Newsletter
  • RSS Feed

Get our Newsletter

Great new articles, every day.

Tags

Cops

Crime

The Secret Story of Corruption Behind Meek Mill’s Incarceration

A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.

Jessica Brand, Ethan Brown In Justice Today Apr 2018 25min Permalink

Crime

How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police

A sociologist learns techniques for evading the authorities.

Read more

Excerpted from On the Run.

Alice Goffman Vice May 2014 15min Permalink

Crime

What’s Eating the NYPD?

The toll of being a cop on the most successful force in the country.

Chris Smith New York Apr 2012 25min Permalink

Crime

Deadly Secrets: How California Law Has Shielded Oakland Police Violence

On the difficulties of holding Oakland’s thin blue line accountable.

Ali Winston Color Lines Aug 2011 20min Permalink