Tag: FBI
Heists Worth Billions: An investigation found criminal gangs using sham bank...
In January 2020, Debi Gamber studied a computer screen filled with information on scores of check deposits. As...
317,793 people were arrested for marijuana possession in 2020 despite the...
Katharine Neill Harris, Rice University
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More than 300,000 people were arrested for cannabis...
Trump faces possible obstruction of justice charges for concealing classified government...
Clark D. Cunningham, Georgia State University
A court filing by the Justice Department just minutes before midnight on Aug....
Conviction of two Michigan kidnap plotters highlights danger of violent conspiracies...
Amy Cooter, Middlebury
Two of the six men facing federal charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen...
The civil rights activist so close to Martin Luther King Jr....
Jason Miller, North Carolina State University
In a recent article published in Standpoint Magazine, Pulitzer Prize-winning Martin Luther King Jr. biographer David Garrow details new...
Why meritocracy is a myth in college admissions
Morgan Polikoff, University of Southern California; Jerome A Lucido, University of Southern California, and Julie Renee Posselt, University of Southern California
The most damaging myth...
Many hate crimes never make it into the FBI’s database
Sophie Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
The FBI’s latest numbers showed a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017.
But what does this actually say about...
Informants aren’t spies – they’re essential FBI tools
Douglas M. Charles, Pennsylvania State University
President Donald Trump tweeted this week that he would order the Department of Justice to investigate whether the FBI,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
