On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.

In 1984, Jacqui met Bob Lambert at an animal-rights protest. They fell in love, had a son. Then Bob disappeared. It would take 25 years for Jacqui to learn that he had been working undercover.

On Cops, cop movies and Ferguson.

Two days in crisis.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.

An experiment in public defense.

On the private, for-profit probation industry.

Louis Scarcella was a star New York City detective in the ’80s and ’90s, cracking cases no one else could. Now it appears that many of the people he put away were innocent, forced into false confessions and convicted with testimony from flimsy witnesses. Scarcella maintains that he did nothing wrong, despite evidence against him much stronger than in many of his cases.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.

An investigation into how Rikers Island guards treat the roughly 4,000 inmates who are mentally ill.

A sociologist learns techniques for evading the authorities.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

The author of I Know What You Did Last Summer investigates her own daughter’s unsolved murder.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

"Caught between the dealers and the cops in Hazleton, Pa., is a woman with a bad habit."

Previously: Susan Dominus on the Longform Podcast.

“Which is how, despite the drinking, the stealing, the racist outburst, the abysmal courtroom performance, the disbarment, and the ultimate imprisonment of his lead attorney, an intellectually disabled man has ended up on the verge of execution.”

An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.

Inside the lack of an investigation into Florida State Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.

In the summer of 1982, three Waco teenagers were savagely murdered for no apparent reason. Four men were ultimately charged with the crime. One was executed, two others were given life sentences, and a fourth was sent to death row only to be released after six years. They all may have been innocent.

On the FBI's failed negotiations with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in Waco.

Previously: Malcolm Gladwell on the Longform Podcast.

The son of a Red Sox legend, his trail of violent attacks runs back to his teen years. So does the line of judges who somehow saw fit, time and again, to give him one more chance. Now he’s on trial for murder.

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.