The Locust Club
How a police organization transitioned from a social club to an obstacle to reform.
How a police organization transitioned from a social club to an obstacle to reform.
Gino Fanelli The Rochester City Mar 2021 20min Permalink
Mexico City has one of the most ambitious and sophisticated video surveillance systems in the world. But it hasn’t stopped crime.
Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of World Jan 2021 25min Permalink
“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”
Baynard Woods, Brandon Soderberg Crimereads Jul 2020 25min Permalink
A high stakes drag race turns dangerous.
S.A. Cosby Jul 2020 20min Permalink
Inside one of America’s most corrupt police squads.
Jessica Lussenhop BBC Apr 2018 35min Permalink
He was a Georgetown-educated Native-American lawyer who’d left behind a career in D.C. to advocate on behalf of poor and minority populations in rural North Carolina. At the time of his 1988 murder, he was investigating ties between police and the local cocaine trade.
The author spent nearly 30 years looking into what really happened.
Nicole Lucas Haimes MEL Magazine Jan 2017 25min Permalink
Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.
Jamie Kalven The Intercept Oct 2016 1h20min Permalink
An epilogue to Serpico.
Frank Serpico Politico Magazine Oct 2014 20min Permalink
Rogue cops in the LAPD Rampart division’s anti-gang CRASH unit (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) were involved in everything from drug smuggling and bank robberies to, allegedly, the murder of Christopher “Notorious BIG” Wallace.