The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/category/media/)
After a city employee killed 12 people, 11 of them municipal workers, authorities said they would name shooter DeWayne Craddock only once. Critics fear that media exposure encourages more mass shootings.
San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott apologized for raiding a journalist’s home and office in a bid to unmask a confidential source, admitting the searches were probably illegal and calling for an independent investigation into the episode.
Media law experts pushed back against San Francisco Police Chief William Scott, who said a freelance journalist conspired to steal a police report, saying that it is not a crime to disclose a public record. Attorney Duffy Carolan, who represents media organizations siding with the reporter, said the public has constitutional rights to public records.
San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office were raided by officers, joined a conspiracy to steal a confidential report, Scott spoke after police agreed to return property seized from Carmody in raids aimed at uncovering the source of a leaked police report into the death of the city’s elected public defender, Jeff Adachi.
A San Francisco reporter refused to disclose the source of a police report saying that public defender Jeff Adachi died with a woman who was not his wife. Police handcuffed the reporter and searched his home and office.
The American style of crime reporting— featuring sensational cases with the most odious details, printing mug shots and full names, and not providing contextual information on criminology and statistics in stories—is overdue for an overhaul, writes a communications specialist.
A reborn Court TV, back after a hiatus of more than a decade, will look a lot like the old version that made a name for itself serving legal junkies a steady diet of crime stories in the trial-crazy 1990s.
Monday’s court filing enters an additional plea of “not criminally responsible” because a mental disorder either prevented him from appreciating the “criminality of his conduct” or prevented him from following the law at the time of the shooting.
Reporting by the South Florida Sun Sentinel and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on mass shootings won awards. Another winner was Hannah Dreier of ProPublica for a series on a crackdown on the MS-13 gang that also won a John Jay College of Criminal Justice prize this year.
Susan Chira, a New York Times reporter and editor for nearly 40 years, will become editor in chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization that focuses on criminal justice.