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Why Utah Police Can Be Forced to Explain a Shooting and How Those Interviews Can Become Public
Police chiefs can force officers to talk after a police shooting, and those interviews — while they can’t be used in criminal proceedings against officers — may become public.
The Salt Lake Tribune
August 6, 2021
Utah Couple Say Internal Police Interview Contradicts Cottonwood Heights on Shooting Death of Son
The new revelations are part of the family’s civil suit. But prosecutors can’t use the information in a criminal investigation.
The Salt Lake Tribune
August 5, 2021
A Utah Prosecutor Says New Self-Defense Law Makes It Harder to Charge Problematic Police Officers
Reacting to calls for police reform, some states have made it easier for prosecutors to criminally charge officers accused of using deadly force when they shouldn’t have. Utah, on the other hand, made it harder.
The Salt Lake Tribune
August 2, 2021
'If You Raise a Voice, I Will Murder You': A Teen Girl in India Was Raped by a Politician. Then the Alleged Cover-Up Began.
Through the stories of two young women, a new documentary investigates how 'India’s Rape Scandal' has drawn police and politicians into controversy.
July 20, 2021
Cover-Up ‘Goes Beyond Anything I’ve Investigated Before,’ Says Correspondent Ramita Navai of ‘India’s Rape Scandal’
Correspondent Ramita Navai says politics and India’s caste system prevent women from coming forward — and result in consequences for those who do speak out.
July 20, 2021
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India's Rape Scandal
FRONTLINE investigates a wave of shocking rape cases in India.
July 20, 2021
VIDEO: A Global Consortium Investigates the Use of Pegasus Spyware
Watch a video on the months-long investigation — by 17 news organizations, including FRONTLINE — into the use of the NSO Group's Pegasus Spyware.
July 18, 2021
VIDEO: A Utah Police Officer Killed a Man Inside the Police Department. It Was His Third Shooting.
A West Valley City police sergeant killed Michael Chad Breinholt nearly two years ago, but the district attorney still hasn’t said whether the shooting was justified.
The Salt Lake Tribune
July 12, 2021
Street Outreach Teams Get Caught Between Protesters, Police
Grassroots security and anti-violence groups in Minneapolis are increasingly targeted as proxies for law enforcement, our local journalism partner the Star Tribune found.
Star Tribune
July 10, 2021
Germany’s Laws on Hate Speech, Nazi Propaganda & Holocaust Denial: An Explainer
A troubled history is alive in Germany — both in a resurgence of far-right ideology and in changes to the laws designed to combat that extremism.
July 1, 2021
‘A Big Wake-Up Call’: Filmmaker Evan Williams on Germany's Neo-Nazis and the Far Right
Filmmaker Evan Williams spoke with FRONTLINE about what he found while working on the documentary "Germany’s Neo-Nazis & the Far Right" and what he hopes we can understand about the resurgence of a dangerous ideology.
June 29, 2021
‘Ready to Fight a War’: A German Far-Right Group Stockpiled Weapons & Prepped for Violence. Its Alleged Leader Wasn’t Tried on Terror Charges.
“If you had an Islamist, a jihadi, doing the same thing, he would go to jail,” journalist Dirk Laabs tells FRONTLINE in a new documentary on the far right and neo-Nazism in Germany.
June 29, 2021