Associate Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice; investigative reporter and author of To Protect and To Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams, Cruel Justice: Three Strikes and the Politics of Crime in America's Golden State and Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing; former senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism
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