AnalysisJustice What’s Stop and Frisk Got To Do With It? Many critics of the New York Police Department’s mass stop-and-question or frisk policy focus not on the race of the people stopped but on the sheer volume of encounters. They say this reflects a larger problem for the NYPD: an obsession with metrics. The incredible decrease in crime during the… Jarrett MurphyAugust 3, 2012
NewsJustice A “Revelatory” Reporter Reveals… Nieman Reports — the quarterly magazine for Harvard University’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and a website we follow; you should, too — has a great new… Jayati VoraAugust 2, 2012
AnalysisImmigration, Justice Addressing Abuse by the US Border Patrol The US Customs and Border Patrol has been in the headlines for the past few weeks — and for all the wrong reasons. There was the investigation I led into acts of abuse by border officials that aired on July… John Carlos FreyJuly 30, 2012
ImpactJournalism Making it to HBO Here at The Investigative Fund, we usually measure our success by media pick-up, raising awareness of the issues we are writing about, and once in a lucky while, honest-to-goodness real-world impact such as the Jayati VoraJuly 27, 2012
InvestigationPolitics Romney Steered a Key Olympic Project to a Friend Did the insider deal violate Romney’s own Salt Lake ethics rules? Wayne BarrettMother JonesJuly 27, 2012
AnalysisBusiness, Labor Why Mary Kay is Only the Beginning In my Investigative Fund article, “The Pink Pyramid Scheme,” which appeared as the cover story of the August issue of Harper’s, cosmetics direct sales giant Mary Kay claimed “it employs multiple sales directors who earn more than $1 million a year…” Virginia Sole-SmithJuly 27, 2012
AnalysisBusiness CRC Cries Foul and Art Levine Responds Dr. Philip Herschman, CRC’s clinical director, responded to our July 18 investigation into Bain Capital’s investment in the troubled chain of residential treatment facilities by calling the investigation “inaccurate, unbalanced and disheartening.” Reporter Art Levine responds… Art LevineJuly 26, 2012
InvestigationEnvironment, World Peruvians Face Off Against Newmont Mining The Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corporation is embroiled in a controversial project in Peru that locals say threatens their water and their future. Bill WeinbergThe ProgressiveJuly 25, 2012
InvestigationImmigration, Justice The Minutemen’s Demise How the murder of a 9-year-old girl and her father caused the implosion of the nativist border-watch movement. David NeiwertAlterNetJuly 23, 2012
InvestigationWorld Rumble in the Jungle As Brazil builds continental infrastructure in South America, indigenous communities fight for their way of life. A photo essay. Noah Friedman-RudovskyForeign PolicyJuly 20, 2012