Dave Biscobing

1 week ago | propublica.org | Eric Umansky |K. Rambo |Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. What Happened: A monitor appointed by a federal court has found that a New York City Police Department unit has been unjustly stopping and searching New Yorkers, almost all of them Black and Hispanic men.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Maria Ines Zamudio |Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing |Paige Pfleger

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Invisible Institute and co-published with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. A former Chicago police officer pleaded guilty on Tuesday to felony charges in connection with two incidents of sexual misconduct involving female colleagues — one that occurred while at the police training academy and one at a police precinct.

2 weeks ago | propublica.org | Nicole Santa Cruz |Dave Biscobing |Paige Pfleger |Mariam Elba

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. Watch ABC15 Arizona's series "Seeking Death," based on our joint investigation into Maricopa County's handling of death penalty cases. Maricopa County has frequently pursued the death penalty but rarely secured death sentences.

3 weeks ago | abc15.com | Dave Biscobing

PHOENIX — The Maricopa County Attorney's Office has brought nearly 350 death penalty cases over the past two decades. But only 41 — or 13% — have ended with a death sentence. Experts and attorneys said the low rate raises serious questions, considering how much death penalty cases cost taxpayers.

3 weeks ago | abc15.com | Dave Biscobing

PHOENIX — The power to seek death is the greatest power we give prosecutors. But the process for selecting death penalty cases in Maricopa County is shrouded in secrecy. This video report is the first chapter in a months-long investigation by ABC15 Chief Investigator Dave Biscobing and ProProblica investigative reporter Nicole Santa Cruz. Watch the first part in this special ABC15 Investigators series in the player above. Check out the full investigation here.