Nicole Santa Cruz
Reporter at ProPublica
@ProPublica reporter writing about underserved communities and inequality in the Southwest 🌵 trying to spend more time here: @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social
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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.
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2 weeks ago |
tucsonsentinel.com | Nicole Santa Cruz
ProPublica This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This report was co-published with ABC15 Arizona.
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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.
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myheraldreview.com | Nicole Santa Cruz
In 2010, Vikki Valencia’s 24-year-old brother, Triny Rey Lozano, died in an almost unimaginably brutal way. He was shot in the head multiple times, dumped on a remote road outside Phoenix and set on fire. Valencia saw only one way prosecutors could bring her family justice: The killer should get the death penalty. Maricopa County prosecutors built a capital murder case against the man they say killed Lozano, Victor Hernandez. Valencia knew it would take a long time but believed it would be worth it.
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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.
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RT @DaveBiscobing15: Maricopa County prosecutors deliberate death cases in secret. Their selections have rarely ended in death sentences.…
RT @DaveBiscobing15: I spent months working with @nicolesantacruz to identify/analyze capital cases filed by the Maricopa County Attorney's…
RT @DaveBiscobing15: SEEKING DEATH Over the years, Maricopa County has sought to kill a lot of people. How many? No one seems to know ex…