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True-crime podcasts have been hosted mostly by investigative journalists, comedians and other media personalities. But after California police used one to track down a runaway suspected killer in Mexico, other law enforcement agencies have embraced the medium as a more effective tool for solving cold cases than “Wanted” posters.
While it can be initially difficult for cops if they must solely rely on social media posts for crime activity rather than getting direct information, the video’s “play well in front of the jury.”
The new law gives California some of the strongest protections for journalists in the country.
A government report reveals that the Tactical Terrorism Response Team, a little-known unit of Customs and Border Protection trained in counterterrorism, interrogated dozens of American activists and journalists at the border under Trump.
While Facebook spent millions of hours cleaning up its U.S.-based networks, the harm inflicted in developing countries was often shrugged off as the “cost of doing business,” internal documents suggest. In one example, a Mexican drug cartel used the platform to recruit, train and pay hitmen.
In an op-ed, Charles Bramesco argues that the return of the show to the Fox News empire provides a safe space “for the increasingly obsolete school of thought it represents.”
At least 11 states now have automatic record expungement laws, but stories of arrests and even mugshots last forever on the internet―unless media outlets and criminal justice advocates can agree on consistent policies.
After 9/11, the FBI’s change from a crime-investigating organization to an intelligence-gathering agency was accompanied by an increased use of sting operations. A new PBS documentary focuses on one operation in Miami that revealed the often-questionable grounds for such operations, and the abuses they fostered.
Authorities were able to track and prosecute a suspected drug trafficker using existing laws to access communications online.
In the wake of public outcry over the Justice Department’s actions under Trump, Garland decides to protect journalist records, with some exceptions.