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Columnist James Doyle explores the history of a simple evidentiary rule (and the ways it is often violated) laid out in Thomas Dybdahl’s recent book: “When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule.”
TCR Columnist James Doyle discusses a freshly-released book that, if it were in his power, he’d assign as required reading to all those engaged in the debate on police reform. Joanna Schwartz’ “Shielded: How The Police Became Untouchable” releases Tuesday, February 14.
The particular “genius” of plea bargaining is that it seems to allow defendants a chance to reduce harsh sentences while locking them into a system that is stacked against them, says attorney Dan Canon in a conversation with The Crime Report about his new book.
Sam Melville was one of the polarizing figures of the 1960s. Killed during the Attica prison uprising, and largely forgotten today, he was considered the “architect” of modern U.S. political radicalism. In a new biography, his son finds jarring parallels with today’s anti-government extremism.
Most murder investigations look nothing like the fast-paced, drama-soaked procedurals seen on streaming TV or podcasts. In a chat with TCR about his new book, former Scotland Yard detective Steve Keogh explains how the job gets done.
In his new book, noted constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky blames a series of Court decisions for the hurdles Americans face in making police accountable for misconduct. In a conversation with TCR, he argues that the ball is now in the hands of our political institutions.
Few figures have been as transformative in U.S. policing as Bill Bratton. In a wide-ranging conversation with TCR about his new book, the former chief of the Los Angeles and New York police departments offers some hard-won insights from his own career at a time when the very fundamentals of policing are being called into question―and when U.S. cities are facing a post-pandemic rise in violent crime.
On the 25th anniversary of the arrest of Ted Kazcynski, who eluded justice during a nearly two-decade string of bombings that terrified the nation, the three FBI agents who led the investigation have written a book with new details of the case. In a conversation with TCR, Donald Noel, one of the agents, draws some lessons for the pursuit of today’s high-tech criminals.