An audit by Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General into the overtime spending of the city’s police department prompted grantees at South Side Weekly to investigate. Jim Daley and Kiran Misra’s series has uncovered a trove of new information regarding who in the department earned the most overtime and when overtime spending occurred. In their most recent investigation, Daley details ...
Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a ...
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp. Corcoran is sinking.According to a new investigation by grantees at The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much ...
Ryan Kelley climbed on scaffolding, helped a man who was moving a police barricade and repeatedly waved fellow protesters toward the Capitol riots in Washington on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for governor in Michigan. Several other people who participated in the riots are running for Congress or state office in Michigan. Jonathan Oosting and our grantees at Bridge Michigan ...
Residents of a former mill town rallied for a longtime local police officer after she filed a harassment complaint against the new police chief in 2020. Within a year, the police department was disbanded, the chief was fired, then unfired, two town managers were terminated and the town agreed to $250,000 in settlements with two former officers.But little of what ...
InvestigateWest’s Decarbonizing Cascadia series, with a grant from the Fund, has been exploring how Washington, Oregon and British Columbia’s governments have failed to live up to their promises to moderate climate pollution by 2020. Amanda Follett Hosgood’s recent installment of the series explores the Seed the North project, which aims to regenerate large swaths of land in British Columbia in ...
As more attention is focused on police accountability, much of the public remains unaware of the doctrine of qualified immunity, which protects many government employees, including law enforcement officers, from being sued for violations of constitutional rights. In a three-part series for New York Amsterdam News, Damaso Reyes and Herb Boyd explored the history of the doctrine, notable cases in ...
More than a year into the pandemic, the Bronx still has the highest death rate from COVID-19 in New York City. In her new podcast episode with Northern California Public Media and The City, “Struggling to Breathe in the Bronx,” Ese Olumhense explores how exposure to air pollution from nearby highways has compounded the effects of COVID-19 from the Bronx ...
For caregivers in Kentucky and Nevada, the pandemic has exposed and exacerbated problems in the states’ foster care systems, in which kinship caregivers shoulder the many burdens of parenting with few of the supports afforded to licensed parents. Graham Ambrose’s new report for The Imprint, co-published by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, and Jackie Valley’s report, co-published by The ...
The Northwest Herald published a three-day series tackling what local, state and federal officials in Illinois are doing to mitigate flooding in the Fox River watershed and how northern Illinois residents have been and could be impacted by past and future flooding and stormwater policies. Read the report here. ...