Politicians' talk of a border 'invasion' is speech experts say has gotten people killed ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/04/18/pol… via Ohio Capital Journal

More excellent reporting from Quattrone Center journalism fellow Radley Balko as he continues his series by evaluating the #indigentdefense systems of Colorado, Connecticut, and Delaware.

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Must read reporting by Radley Balko about the indigent defense delivery systems in Colorado, Connecticut, and Delaware: radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-states-o…

I’ve been on Knock LA’s admin team since 2022. I’ve coordinated skills building workshops w/ journalism orgs, overseen award winning reporting & secured major funders. Last night Ground Game LA maliciously deleted all of my @knockdotLA accounts. Pls read our newsroom’s open letter

.Radley Balko: 'The way the department handled the incident suggests that, as with other jurisdictions, the introduction of body cameras won’t be the transparency and accountability panacea they're often touted to be.' thedailybeast.com/kidnapped-teen… #UnitedStates

I wrote about how instead of becoming tools for transparency, politicians and other public officials have helped police weaponize body and dash cameras.

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So Elon took the blue check away, turned it into an embarrassment, forced it back on some of us, and is now making us pay him to hide it.

Still not giving him a dime. But you gotta respect the grift.

If Radley Balko wasn't such an indefatigable, essential journalist, he'd make a fantastic litigator. Few are better at surfacing and making simple the complex, cruel ironies of our criminal legal system, for example:
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When a cargo ship took out a Baltimore bridge, it also demolished the lies poisoning our immigration debate

The 6 migrant men who died weren't drug dealers or sex traffickers but hero dads filling potholes to give their kids a better life

My new column⬇️ inquirer.com/opinion/baltim…

Book excerpt: #DeathRow Welcomes You, by Steven Hale, by Radley Balko
#EndTheDeathPenalty
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1: For the past week, the publication where I am senior editor, The UnPopulist, has been embroiled in a genuinely preposterous micro-tiff with The Fifth Column, a libertarian-leaning podcast.

I want to give my account of why I found TFC and their fans’ posture ridiculous.

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'Despite unanimous agreement by scientific bodies...that bite-mark identification is hokum, every single defendant I’m aware of who has asked a court to exclude bite-mark evidence because of the lack of scientific validity has lost.' By Radley Balko:

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A court finally took notice of my reporting, @RadleyBalko writes—but for all the wrong reasons. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Endorse. The Fifth Column guys’ three-day tantrum in response to one sentence in my piece might be the most unhinged reaction to anything I’ve ever written. Just really weird behavior.

It’s a deeply stupid conflict. But here, Shikha calmly explains why they’re wrong

Sometimes I reach ex-prosecutors who sent people to death row and they are open & thoughtful. Other times they say things like, “The only intellectual disability he has is a condition called MAH: Mean as Hell.” On Willie Pye, set to die tonight in Georgia. theintercept.com/2024/03/20/geo…

A court finally took notice of my reporting, @RadleyBalko writes—but for all the wrong reasons. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…