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Mayor Eric Adams speaks as Police Commissioner Edward Caban listens during announcement end-of-year citywide crime statistics at One Police Plaza. ( Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

NYPD tosses hundreds of misconduct cases — including stop-and-frisks — without even looking at them

Eric Umansky

Mayor Eric Adams speaks as Police Commissioner Edward Caban listens during announcement end-of-year citywide crime statistics at One Police Plaza. ( Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New Yorkers were choked, beaten and Tased by NYPD officers. The commissioner buried their cases

Eric Umansky

Students mingle on the campus lawn at Liberty University on October 20, 2018 in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Liberty University hit with record fines for failing to handle complaints of sexual assault

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A policeman pulls over a driver, getting out of the police car to write a traffic ticket. (Getty Images/kali9)

How police have undermined the promise of body cameras

Eric Umansky, Umar Farooq

Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Pentagon on September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Expert: US has a “terrible system that’s ripe to be exploited” by Republicans seeking minority rule

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Mayor Bill De Blasio (Getty/Yana Paskova)

The inside story of how Bill de Blasio promised, then thwarted NYPD accountability

Eric Umansky, Jake Pearson

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Trump’s Ukraine plotting has been happening in plain sight. So why didn’t we see it?

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Donald Trump Jr. (Getty/Jeff Vinnick)

Donald Trump Jr. pushed ‘blatantly illegal’ project in India, former official says

Eric Umansky, Andrea Bernstein

Donald Trump (AP/Mark Humphrey)

Reporting in the new reality: Journalists need to adapt to reporting on Donald Trump

Eric Umansky

My life ate my homework

Eric Umansky