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Why Police Reform Fails

05.08.2021

Six years after Ferguson, St. Louis hasn’t seen a single substantive police reform. A group of young Black leaders have instead set their sights higher: taking control of city politics. In 2014, then-Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed ...

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05.08.2021 Why Police Reform Fails Six years after Ferguson, St. Louis hasn’t seen a single substantive police reform. A group of young Black leaders have instead set their sights higher: taking control of city politics. In 2014, then-Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed ...
05.01.2021 Banking on Inequity Congress spent hundreds of billions of dollars to rescue small businesses hurt by the pandemic. But Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) money disproportionately went to White neighborhoods, leaving communities of color behind. Small businesses are the heart of Los Angeles’ many ...
04.24.2021 The Rise and Fall of Madoff's Ponzi Scheme After Bernie Madoff’s death, we dig into how he pulled off one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history. Reporter Steve Fishman explores what lessons the fallen financier’s story holds for today. Madoff duped thousands of investors out of tens ...
04.17.2021 The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster Sixteen-year-old Myon Burrell was sent to prison for life after a stray bullet killed an 11-year-old girl in Minneapolis in 2002. Amy Klobuchar, who was Minneapolis’ top prosecutor, brought first-degree murder charges as part of a national crackdown on gang ...
04.10.2021 The Robert Mueller of Latin America Guatemala sends more migrants to the U.S. than anywhere in Central America. What is driving so many people to leave? Crusading prosecutor Iván Velásquez has been called the Robert Mueller of Latin America. He’s known for jailing presidents and paramilitaries. ...
04.03.2021 Sick on the Inside For decades, the United States has operated a system of private “shadow prisons” to house noncitizens convicted of federal crimes. Now, President Joe Biden has ordered these contracts to be wound down. We revisit an investigation with Type Investigations and ...
03.27.2021 Minor League Pay From the Frisco RoughRiders to the Dayton Dragons, minor league baseball teams are a classic American tradition. But their players are not covered by some classic American laws: Players can earn less than the equivalent of minimum wage and don’t ...
03.20.2021 Juvenile (In)justice Larissa Salazar grew up in Wyoming, and when she was in eighth grade, she got in a fight on a school bus. That snowballed into her spending 16 months in a state juvenile facility. Reporter Tennessee Watson follows Larissa’s experience ...
03.13.2021 Protecting Kids from Abuse For years, the Pentagon mishandled sexual assault cases involving kids living on military bases, until an Associated Press investigation jolted lawmakers into action. Reporter Holly McDede brings us to Berkeley High School in California, where students were fed up with ...
03.06.2021 The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care Residential care homes seem like the perfect place for Mom or Grandpa to live out their golden years, but their home-like facades are hiding rampant wage theft and exploitation of caregivers. Reveal’s Jennifer Gollan takes us into her investigation of ...
03.03.2021 Remember Me This Way In this special episode of the podcast, we hear the story of one of more than 500,000 Americans who’ve died from COVID-19. David León was a father of six; a small-business owner in Fresno, California; and a leader in the ...
02.27.2021 Into the COVID ICU Dr. Paloma Marin-Nevarez graduated from medical school during the pandemic. We follow the rookie doctor for her first months working at a hospital in Fresno, California, as she grapples with isolation, anti-mask rallies and an overwhelming number of deaths. Don’t ...
02.20.2021 An American Murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla An American journalist and her mom are found murdered in Istanbul. Police say they caught the killer. Friends and family say the investigation was incomplete. In collaboration with ABC News and freelance reporter Fariba Nawa, we dig into the investigative ...
02.13.2021 Timber Wars Thirty years ago, activists and scientists turned a fight over the spotted owl and ancient trees into one of the biggest environmental conflicts of the century. The process transformed the way we see – and fight over – the natural ...
02.06.2021 The Ticket Trap Sports, theater and concert fans are itching for events to start happening again. So are clever ticket sellers who’ve figured out ways to cash in on unsuspecting customers shopping online. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the ...
01.30.2021 How the Pandemic Changed Us Racial justice, police accountability, mutual aid, climate activism and warp-speed vaccines – we examine the ways our COVID-19 year changed American society. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
01.23.2021 A Transfer of Power Rage, chaos and conspiracies defined Donald Trump’s last days as president. As the nation swears in Joe Biden, we look at the long shadow cast by the White supremacist and anti-immigrant forces that brought Trump to power. Don’t miss out ...
01.16.2021 The Evolution of All-American Terrorism (rebroadcast) Long before the attempted coup by his supporters, Trump fanned the flames of white supremacy & domestic terrorism. This week on Reveal, we track the increase in right-wing domestic terrorist attacks since 2016—and ask whether law enforcement has taken these ...
01.09.2021 Democracy Under Siege A mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, aiming to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory. How did we get here? We examine President Donald Trump’s rhetoric over the last four years, as he stoked conspiracy theories, ...
01.02.2021 Take No Prisoners (Rebroadcast) This episode originally was broadcast July 28, 2018. In December 1944, Frank Hartzell was a young soldier pressed into fierce fighting during the Battle of the Bulge. He was there battling Nazi soldiers for control of the Belgian town of ...
12.26.2020 When Lighting the Voids (Rebroadcast) This week, we present a special episode of Reveal produced by our partners at StoryWorks, a documentary theater company. “When Lighting The Voids” is an audio drama inspired by Reveal’s investigation into a deadly explosion at a Mississippi shipyard. This ...
12.19.2020 Policing Pregnancy If the Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, states could set their own rules about abortion. Some states have already closed clinics, and for those that remain they’ve added obstacles—like collecting personal data about people who get abortions and declaring ...
12.12.2020 All the President’s Pardons (Update) President Donald Trump has granted clemency to several controversial people, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and Trump’s friend and political operative Roger Stone. But what about the people who have applied through the official process and are waiting ...
12.05.2020 Reproducing Racism (Rebroadcast) As racial disparities in health come into the spotlight amid COVID-19, we explore how the legacy of racism affects maternal health in the U.S. Plus, we hear from doctors working hard to turn things around. Don’t miss out on the ...
11.28.2020 Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Rebroadcast) The story of how two well-respected New York art galleries sold more than $80 million in fake art, and why almost no one ever was punished by authorities. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal ...
11.21.2020 The Bad Place The vacant building that once housed the Riverside Academy in Wichita, Kansas, was covered in haunting graffiti: “Burn this place.” “Youth were abused here … systematically.” “This is a bad place.” The facility, run by the for-profit company Sequel Youth ...
11.18.2020 Trump’s Global Echoes The United States has traditionally been a leader of democracy internationally, taking a big role in establishing institutions such as the United Nations. But President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities have left a leadership vacuum in important international organizations. What ...
11.14.2020 United, We’re Not Where does America go from here? We talk with an asylum-seeking family, a Georgia woman on abortion access, and West Virginians on the impact of Black Lives Matter. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal ...
11.07.2020 The American Divide Unborn babies' hearts are at risk as EPA caves to chemical companies’ 20-year effort to whitewash the science on the risks of an extremely dangerous and prevalent chemical, TCE. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly ...
10.31.2020 Stopping a Movement In what may be the largest protest movement in the nation’s history, millions of Americans have taken to the streets this year to protest racism and police brutality. In response, the federal government cracked down, filing charges against protesters in ...
10.24.2020 Remembering a White Supremacist Coup On the eve of a contentious election, Reveal looks back to the nearly forgotten election of 1898 in Wilmington, North Carolina. A coup d’etat gave birth to much of the structural racism that still plagues our nation today. This suppressed ...
10.17.2020 An Adolescence, Seized A 10-year-old Honduran girl came to the United States seeking asylum. Instead, she was detained – away from her family – for nearly seven years. Reporter Aura Bogado follows her story. After a lawsuit against the U.S. government, we discover ...
10.10.2020 An American Murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla An American journalist and her mom are found murdered in Istanbul. Police say they caught the killer. Friends and family say the investigation was incomplete. In collaboration with ABC News and freelance reporter Fariba Nawa, we dig into the investigative ...
10.03.2020 Whose Vote Will Count? From problems with vote-by-mail systems to voter suppression, we travel to Wisconsin and Florida to examine the potential for chaos in the 2020 elections. Then we hear from postal workers about handling the huge number of mail-in ballots. Don’t miss ...
09.26.2020 Catching Amazon in a Lie Amazon says its warehouses are safe for workers, but we’ve obtained numbers that show they’re getting hurt much more often than the company claims. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
09.19.2020 COVID-19 in Confinement At a time when self-isolation is the best way to avoid the pandemic, we examine two places where people have no choice but to live with strangers: nursing homes and prisons. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get ...
09.12.2020 America's Ring of Fire (Rebroadcast) Wildfires are getting bigger, more expensive to fight and closer than ever to where people live. The consequences can be deadly. We examine how wildfires got so dangerous – and how some are fighting back. Parts of this episode originally ...
09.05.2020 The Robert Mueller of Latin America Crusading prosecutor Iván Velásquez has been called the Robert Mueller of Latin America. He’s known for jailing presidents and paramilitaries. But Velásquez met his match when he went after Jimmy Morales, a television comedian who was elected president of Guatemala. ...
08.29.2020 The Refuge Revealed (Rebroadcast) The 40-year fight over drilling for oil in one of the world’s wildest places, Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, is coming to a head. The Department of the Interior has just removed the final hurdle to allow oil industry bids ...
08.22.2020 Lost in Transplantation (Rebroadcast) Quickly delivering donated organs to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are leading to delays in surgeries, putting patients in danger and making some organs unusable. This episode originally was broadcast ...
08.15.2020 Monumental Lies (Update) The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but the Confederacy didn't completely die with it. Monuments, shrines and museums are found throughout the South. We teamed up with Type Investigations to visit dozens of them and found that ...
08.08.2020 American Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
08.01.2020 American Rehab Chapter 7: The Work Cure One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of backbreaking labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction? Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter ...
07.29.2020 American Rehab Chapter 6: The White Vans Before sunrise, a line of passenger vans heads to job sites across Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Cenikor didn't want to show us where they were sending rehab participants to work. So we followed the vans to find out. Don’t miss out ...
07.25.2020 American Rehab Chapter 5: Reagan with the Snap Cenikor rises from the ashes, thanks to the inventor of NFL football pads, the war on drugs and the endorsement of an American president. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal newsletter today.
07.18.2020 American Rehab Chapter 4: Cowboy Conman He’s a liar, a killer and a wannabe country music singer. Luke Austin finds Synanon in prison and borrows from its philosophy to create Cenikor. But graft and violence nearly destroy it. Don’t miss out on the next big story. ...
07.11.2020 American Rehab Chapter 3: A Venomous Snake After amassing a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult, with mass sterilization, a paramilitary group and a rattlesnake in a mailbox. Don’t miss out on the next big story. Get the Weekly Reveal ...
07.04.2020 American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach Cenikor’s bizarre form of rehab has its roots in Synanon: a revolutionary rehab that started in the 1950s on a California beach. Its charismatic leader, Charles Dederich, mesmerized the nation by claiming to have developed a cure for drug addiction. ...
07.04.2020 American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem. This is the first chapter in Reveal’s American ...
07.01.2020 An Old Hate Goes Viral Since the coronavirus started spreading in the United States, members of the Asian American/Pacific Islander community have been verbally assaulted, coughed at and spit on, and even physically attacked. This is the latest chapter in an ongoing saga of hate ...

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Reveal episodes:

Why Police Reform Fails

Banking on Inequity

The Rise and Fall of Madoff's Ponzi Scheme

The Jail Tapes in the Dumpster

The Robert Mueller of Latin America

Sick on the Inside

Minor League Pay

Juvenile (In)justice

Protecting Kids from Abuse

The Unpaid Cost of Elder Care

Remember Me This Way

Into the COVID ICU

An American Murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla

Timber Wars

The Ticket Trap

How the Pandemic Changed Us

A Transfer of Power

The Evolution of All-American Terrorism (rebroadcast)

Democracy Under Siege

Take No Prisoners (Rebroadcast)

When Lighting the Voids (Rebroadcast)

Policing Pregnancy

All the President’s Pardons (Update)

Reproducing Racism (Rebroadcast)

Fancy Galleries, Fake Art (Rebroadcast)

The Bad Place

Trump’s Global Echoes

United, We’re Not

The American Divide

Stopping a Movement

Remembering a White Supremacist Coup

An Adolescence, Seized

An American Murder in Istanbul: Justice for Halla

Whose Vote Will Count?

Catching Amazon in a Lie

COVID-19 in Confinement

America's Ring of Fire (Rebroadcast)

The Robert Mueller of Latin America

The Refuge Revealed (Rebroadcast)

Lost in Transplantation (Rebroadcast)

Monumental Lies (Update)

American Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce

American Rehab Chapter 7: The Work Cure

American Rehab Chapter 6: The White Vans

American Rehab Chapter 5: Reagan with the Snap

American Rehab Chapter 4: Cowboy Conman

American Rehab Chapter 3: A Venomous Snake

American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach

American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call

An Old Hate Goes Viral

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