Covers criminal justice at the New York Times. Relatively optimistic. Cover photo by the great @WilliamWidmer. Tips to dewan at https://t.co/zGJ4T9rCnp
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Jul 26, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What Improves the Chances of Solving a Murder? Really important story by @Crimealytics because 1/ nytimes.com/2021/07/23/ups…@Crimealytics One thing we can all agree we want the police to do is solve crime, but that's one thing they're not great at doing. 2/
Jan 14, 2021 • 25 tweets • 7 min read
For our story today on the Capitol Police, I went on a fascinating tour of our archives, full of bomb threats, assassination plots and forgotten causes. (Imagine a Congressman getting arrested today in a Capitol men's room on sodomy charges...) Here's a sampling: 1/
The 1st mention of the Capitol Police involved the certification of Lincoln's election in 1861. “A few weeks ago many freely predicted that the counting of the electoral votes would never be peacefully accomplished.” 2/