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Al Baker is a crime reporter at The New York Times, where he writes the series \u201cMurder in the 4-0.\u201d\n\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s a murder in a public housing high rise, there\u2019s a body on the floor. Jessica White in a playground, on a hot summer night. Her children saw it. Her body fell by a bench by a slide. You look up and there\u2019s hundreds of windows, representing potentially thousands of eyes, looking down on that like a fishbowl. \u2026They\u2019re seeing it through the window and they can see that there\u2019s a scarcity of response. And then they measure that against the police shooting that happened in February when there were three helicopters in the air and spotlights shining down on them all night and hundreds of officers with heavy armor going door to door to door to find out who shot a police officer. They can see the difference between a civilian death and an officer death.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@bakeal\n[02:15] Murder in the 4-0\n[04:15] Baker\u2019s Archive at New York Daily News\n[08:15] "The myth of the killer-cop \u2018epidemic\u2019" (Michael Walsh \u2022 New York Post \u2022 Jan 2016)\n[09:15] The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Michelle Alexander \u2022 The New Press \u2022 2012)\n[11:15] "A Bronx Precinct Where Killings Persist" (with Benjamin Mueller \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Feb 2016)\n[14:15] "From the archives: TWA Flight 800, flying with fear" (Newsday Staff Writers \u2022 Newsday \u2022 Jul 1996)\n[15:45] "A Bullet Misses Its Mark, and Then Takes a Fatal Detour" (with James C. McKinley Jr. \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Jan 2017)\n[21:15] "A Mother Is Shot Dead on a Playground, and a Sea of Witnesses Goes Silent" (with Benjamin Mueller \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Oct 2016)\n[22:45] "A Familiar Pattern in a Spouse\u2019s Final Act" (with Benjamin Mueller & Ashley Southall \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Apr 2016)\n[22:45] "Quest for a New Life Ends in a Tangle of Gang Ties" (with James C. McKinley Jr. \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Aug 2016)\n[30:30] "Authorities Move to Charge 16 Officers After Widespread Ticket-Fixing" (with William K. Rashbaum \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Oct 2011)\n[36:15] Rukmini Callimachi on the Longform Podcast\n[37:30] Good Cop, Bad Cop: Joseph Trimboli vs Michael Dowd and the NY Police Department (Mike Mcalary \u2022 Pocket Books \u2022 1996)\n[40:45] "A Cloak of Silence After a South Bronx Killing" (with Benjamin Mueller \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Mar 2016)\n[43:15] "Grandmother\u2019s Killing Lays Bare a Dilemma in Child Welfare Work" (with James C. McKinley Jr. & Ashley Southall \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Nov 2016)\n[45:45] Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Adrian Nicole LeBlanc \u2022 Scribner \u2022 2003)\n[47:30] "William Bratton, New York\u2019s Influential Police Commissioner, Is Stepping Down" (with J. David Goodman \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Aug 2016)\n[47:30] "Ahmad Khan Rahami Is Arrested in Manhattan and New Jersey Bombings" (with Marc Santora, William K. Rashbaum, & Adam Goldman \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Sep 2016)\n[50:45] Seymour Hersh on the Longform Podcast\n[56:45] "Cops\u2019 Favorite Target Thug, but Just Who Was the Guy?" (Michael Wilson \u2022 New York Times \u2022 Feb 2005)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices