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Washington, D.C.: The Difficulties of Firing Police Officers
\\n\\nA group of hackers attacked the Metropolitan Police Department in 2021, leaking 250 gigabytes of data and confidential files.
\\n\\nBuried in tens of thousands of records, Reveal reporter Dhruv Mehrotra found a disturbing pattern. Records of disciplinary decisions showed that an internal panel of high-ranking officers kept some troubled officers on the force \\u2013 even after department investigators substantiated allegations of criminal misconduct and recommended they be fired.
\\n\\nAurora, Colorado: \\u2018Excited Delirium\\u2019 and Ketamine in Police Confrontations\\xa0
\\n\\nWhen Elijah McClain was stopped by police in Aurora, Colorado, in 2019, he was injected with a powerful sedative, ketamine, and died after suffering cardiac arrest. His death sparked widespread protests.
\\n\\nKUNC reporters Michael de Yoanna and Rae Solomon covered McClain\\u2019s case, and it made them wonder how often paramedics and law enforcement use ketamine and why. What they found led to real change.
\\n\\nSt. Louis: The History of Prisoner Disenfranchisement Laws in Missouri
\\n\\nPrisoner disenfranchisement laws have been on the books since the founding of our nation and disproportionately affect voters of color.\\xa0
\\n\\nReveal Investigative Fellow and St. Louis Public Radio journalist Andrea Henderson reports from Missouri, where about 63,000 formerly incarcerated people could not vote in the last presidential election. She speaks to a community activist who credits getting his right to vote restored as the start of putting him on his current path.
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