Police
The New Yorker Radio Hour
A Decade of Black Lives Matter
The mother of Trayvon Martin and others on what Black Lives Matter has achieved in ten years, and what it hasn’t.
Letter from the South
Can “Cop City” Be Stopped at the Ballot Box?
The fight over a massive police-training complex, set to be built outside Atlanta, has lasted more than two years. Now many people hope the proposal will be put to a vote.
A Reporter at Large
Should Hotel Chains Be Held Liable for Human Trafficking?
For decades, franchised hotels have been a common scene of sex-trafficking crimes in the U.S. A new legal strategy is targeting the corporations that collect royalties from them.
The Political Scene
Paul Vallas’s Cops-and-Crime Campaign to Run Chicago
In a recent poll, nearly two-thirds of the city’s residents reported feeling unsafe. The mayoral runoff presents two starkly different visions for how to move forward.
The New Yorker Interview
The New Mayor of Los Angeles
Karen Bass on combatting homelessness, reforming the police department, and building a greener city.
The Political Scene Podcast
How the Memphis Police Controlled the Narrative of Tyre Nichols’s Killing
Doreen St. Félix, a writer and critic, discusses the public’s relationship to police brutality videos, and law enforcement’s illusion of transparency.
Atlanta Postcard
Tots vs. Cop City
Preschoolers at an anti-racist school in East Atlanta speak out against a police-training center to be built in the woods nearby, then play with blocks.
A Reporter at Large
When Law Enforcement Alone Can’t Stop the Violence
Amid a murder crisis in America, community-based solutions have received a flood of funding. How effective are they?
Daily Comment
Should Local Police Departments Deploy Lethal Robots?
A vote from the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco reopened the debate over deploying surplus military matériel.
News Desk
How Trump Supporters Came to Hate the Police
At the Capitol riot and elsewhere, MAGA Republicans have leaped from “backing the blue” to attacking law-enforcement officials.
The Front Row
“Athena,” Reviewed: When Social Thought Becomes Hectic Spectacle
Romain Gavras’s new film is technically stunning but hollow at its apolitical core.
A Reporter at Large
The Victim Who Became the Accused
After a Black female police officer reported that a white male colleague had taken advantage of her sexually, she found herself on trial.
Letter from the South
The New Fight Over an Old Forest in Atlanta
The plans for an enormous police-training center—dubbed Cop City by critics—have ignited interest in one of Atlanta’s largest remaining green spaces.
Our Local Correspondents
Proving That the State Killed Your Son
A New York State prison told Lonnie Hamilton that his son had hanged himself. He believed there was more to the story.
Daily Cartoon
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, June 15th
“Do you have any idea what kind of gas mileage you were getting?”
Trade-In Dept.
Guns Into Gift Cards, and iPads, Too
When Junior’s restaurant and the Kings County District Attorney’s office sponsored a gun buyback at a Brooklyn church, citizens came bearing pistols, a pump-action shotgun, and a kid’s toy.
Letter from Los Angeles
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy-Gang Crisis
Whistle-blowers say that a group called the Banditos functions as a shadow government within local law enforcement. The sheriff says there is no such gang in his department.
Dispatch
Two Mothers Confront the Unimaginable in Uvalde
Years of frustration with the local police and school officials have boiled into rage.
Letter from the U.K.
The Misogyny That Led to the Fall of London’s Police Commissioner
Cressida Dick was supposed to be a pioneering reformer, but she couldn’t overcome the culture of the force.
Our Local Correspondents
What the Killing of Two N.Y.P.D. Officers Means for New York
The test for Mayor Eric Adams is whether he can curb the recent spike in shootings while balancing police tactics against the rights of poor communities.