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ISIS via WhatsApp: 'Blow Yourself Up, O Lion'
A trove of communications from ISIS plots and activity in Europe reveals a mix of direct control and improvisation and shows the crucial importance of encrypted messaging tools. “Detonate your belt in the crowds,” one message declared.
July 11, 2016
White House Eases Cap on Medication for Opioid Addiction
As many as 90,000 new patients could gain access to the addiction-fighting medication buprenorphine, under a new Obama administration policy announced on Wednesday.
July 6, 2016
The Bomb Detectors That Didn't Work in Baghdad
The ADE 651 bomb detector, which was modeled on a novelty golf ball finder, has been known to be fake for years.
July 6, 2016
Ras Baraka: "We Need Police ... We Just Don't Want Them To Shoot Us"
The community wants police to aggressively respond to crime, Newark's mayor told FRONTLINE. “We need police in our neighborhood,” he said. “We just don’t want them to shoot us in the back while we’re running away in a traffic stop, or choke people for selling cigarettes.”
June 28, 2016
The Problem with "Broken Windows" Policing
In cities where Broken Windows has taken root, there’s little evidence that it's worked as intended. Newark, N.J. is one example.
June 28, 2016
Vanita Gupta: "No Such Thing as a Perfect Police Department"
As head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, Vanita Gupta is the federal official in charge of investigating police departments for civil rights violations.
June 28, 2016
WATCH: Good Stop, Bad Stop?
On a ridealong with the Newark Police Department's Gang Unit, FRONTLINE filmed officers stopping an unarmed black man on the street and forcing him to the ground.
June 28, 2016
Quiz: Spot the Illegal Police Stop
The stakes in a police stop can be high. What an officer discovers during a stop -- and how -- helps determine whether someone is allowed to carry on with their day, whether they’ll go to jail and even what type of evidence is used at trial.
June 28, 2016
Policing In America: 10 Questions With Jelani Cobb
He's one of the nation's foremost journalists on race and politics, but Jelani Cobb says he was surprised by what he saw while riding along with a police unit in Newark.
June 28, 2016
Night of the Storm
When Superstorm Sandy tore through Staten Island, N.Y., in 2012, Nick Camerada nearly lost his home -- and his life.
June 19, 2016
Voices of Detainees and Dissent in New CIA "Enhanced Interrogation" Documents
New documents fill in some gaps in public knowledge about the CIA's post-9/11 detention and interrogation program that was investigated by the Senate.
June 16, 2016