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Are you having a good day? Well Jalopnik, via ProPublica, is here to ruin that for you. The nonprofit news organization published a story in June about how the blue wall of silence protects cops who speed into groups of children with their squad cars. I just spotted it this morning and man, will it make your blood boil.

(Courthouse News photo / Josh Russell) MANHATTAN (CN) — The New York City Police Department “cannot bargain away” its disclosure obligations, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday as it rejected a bid by police and firefighter unions to block the publishing of thousands of officer misconduct records.  Killing the appeal in an unsigned summary order, the three-judge panel blew through claims that greater transparency would risk officers’ safety. “Many other states make similar misconduct r...

ProPublica’s series “The NYPD Files,” which uncovered abuse and impunity inside the New York Police Department, won the John Jay College/Harry Frank Guggenheim Award for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting. The multimedia package was recognized in the “series” category of the prize, which is administered by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College. ProPublica’s Eric Umansky, Joaquin Sapien, Topher Sanders, Derek Willis, Moiz Syed, Mollie Simon, Lena Groeger, J...

Rukmini Callimachi’s got a lot to be proud of: An editors note has been added today to another @nytimes story by @rcallimachi, this one from 2014 https://t.co/VwdRwjHeCVpic.twitter.com/tzAznleVHv And to another story, this one from the end of 2019. The Times investigators were looking at a broader range of work than just Caliphate https://t.co/FULAJwCmMs Don’t worry. We’re sure there’s still lots more where that came from. Michael Barbaro, host of the New York Times’ podcast The Daily...