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Josiah Bates
Josiah Bates is a reporter for TIME based in New York City
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What to Know About the Murdaugh Family Murders
Murder investigations, embezzlement allegations, a drug addiction and hitman-for-hire: in recent months, a series of bizarre criminal incidents surrounding a prominent South Carolina family—and its patriarch, attorney Alex Murdaugh—have received national attention. It was the...
By Josiah Bates
October 20, 2021
The Complex Dynamic Between 'Violence Interrupters' and Police
Just off a stretch of Eastern Parkway, the highway-like street that goes through many of Brooklyn, New York’s most disenfranchised neighborhoods, is a small office in Crown Heights. What fills this small space is vital...
By Josiah Bates
October 15, 2021
Police Killings Happen Far More Often Than What's Widely Reported. Here's Why the Numbers Are Off by So Much
A new study of over 30 years worth of medical data reveals the number of deaths at the hands of police officers in the U.S. is more than double the amount that's been widely reported....
By Josiah Bates
October 1, 2021
FBI Data Shows a Surge in Murders in 2020. That's Not the Full Story
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Sept. 27 release of its annual Uniform Crime Report (UCR) confirmed what many expected: the number of murders rose in 2020 across the U.S. According to the FBI's data,...
By Josiah Bates
September 30, 2021
Julius Jones Awaits Clemency Hearing. What Could Happen Now
On Tuesday, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt announced that he would not be accepting a recommendation from the state’s parole board to commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, a Black man who’s been on death...
By Josiah Bates
September 22, 2021
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Long Without Leaders
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) remains without a leader after President Joe Biden's selection of David Chipman to lead the organization was pulled on Sept. 9 after weeks of speculation and...
By Josiah Bates
September 16, 2021
New Orleans Wary as Police Aim at Looting After Ida
Hurricane Ida did not do damage like Katrina did but, as police deploy anti-looting squads, some residents are brought back to that time
By Josiah Bates
September 2, 2021
NYPD Employees Grapple with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is struggling to vaccinate its employees. According to the department, an estimated 47% of its members are fully vaccinated under NYPD-administered programs against COVID-19 as of Aug. 24....
By Josiah Bates
August 27, 2021
New Report on 911 Data Adds Context to Police Reform Debates
The study from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences tracked around 4.3 million 911 calls
By Josiah Bates
August 18, 2021
Report: Homicides Continue to Slowly Rise in the U.S., While Other Violent Crime Rates Decline
A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) presents data showing that murders have risen 16% in many major American cities over the first 6 months of 2021, as part of what is...
By Josiah Bates
August 4, 2021
Team USA Athletes Are Protesting at the Tokyo Olympics
Raven Saunders said a handful of Team USA athletes planned to use the X symbol as their way of protesting. Here's what to know about IOC rules
By Josiah Bates
August 2, 2021
Federal Gun Task Force Yields Arrests, Conflict in New York
The VIPER task force intends to combat a recent surge of gun violence in Rochester and Buffalo, New York City
By Josiah Bates
July 28, 2021
The Toll of Unsolved Inner-City Murders in Chicago
Historically when it comes to homicides in poor and disenfranchised Black communities, many cases are left unsolved
By Josiah Bates
July 16, 2021
Uncle of Darnella Frazier Killed by Minneapolis Police
The Minnesota State Patrol is investigating a Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) car crash that led to the death of Leneal Lamont Frazier, the uncle of Darnella Frazier, the Minneapolis teen who filmed George Floyd's murder...
By Josiah Bates
July 7, 2021
Old Video Sheds New Light on a Police Killing
A long-overlooked video and its scratchy audio are key to demands that Terrance Franklin's shooting death by Minneapolis police in 2013 be re-examined
By Josiah Bates
June 25, 2021
After His 2020 Death in a New York Jail Cell, Jamel Floyd's Family File Lawsuit Against Bureau of Prisons
More than a year after his death, and with many of their questions still unanswered, the family of Jamel Floyd, a man who died in a New York City federal jail after being pepper-sprayed by...
By Sanya Mansoor
June 24, 2021
U.S. Faces Summer Plagued by Gun Violence
A drastic rise in gun violence apparent in 2020 continues to plague American communities at devastatingly high levels through 2021
By Josiah Bates
June 4, 2021
Journalists Reflect on Covering Stories About Their Communities
Longstanding journalistic maxims would have a reporter remain disengaged while gathering the facts. But pursuing the whole truth means considering the humanity of one’s subjects—and of oneself. Lived experience can help a reporter empathize and...
By Jasmine Aguilera
May 13, 2021
Buoyed by Chauvin Trial Results, Police Reform Activists Look Ahead
A collective sigh—whether of release, relief, shock or discomfort—was felt across the city of Minneapolis, and much of the U.S., on April 20, as Judge Peter Cahill read a jury's verdict for all three charges...
By Josiah Bates
April 21, 2021
Minnesota Activists on the Chauvin Trial, Daunte Wright's Death
With jury deliberations in the Chauvin trial set to begin, attention is now shifting between the verdict and another contentious legal battle
By Josiah Bates
April 15, 2021
Amid Chauvin Trial, Minnesota Grapples With Another Police Killing
As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, charged with the May 2020 murder of George Floyd, entered its eleventh day on Monday, another police killing of a Black man in Minnesota has...
By Janell Ross / Brooklyn Center, Minn.
April 12, 2021
Why So Much of America's Gun Violence Gets Overlooked
We must be conscious of our country's selective reaction to gun violence
By Josiah Bates
March 30, 2021
Witness: George Floyd Was 'Terrified, Scared'
Darnella Frazier, who captured video of George Floyd's death, was the fourth witness to testify in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin
By Josiah Bates
March 30, 2021
Chauvin Trial Set to Begin Over Death of George Floyd
The trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, is set to begin on March 29 in Minneapolis. The trial comes nearly a year after...
By Josiah Bates
March 25, 2021
Why the Term 'Defund the Police' Has Become Divisive
There are varying perspectives and ideas on what "defund the police" means
By Josiah Bates
February 23, 2021
Albert Woodfox Speaks on Racial Justice in America
Feb. 19 marks the five-year anniversary of Albert Woodfox's release from Louisiana State Penitentiary. (It also marks his birthday.) Woodfox, 74, had spent over 40 years in solitary confinement while incarcerated there, one of the...
By Josiah Bates
February 19, 2021
Civil Rights Group Launches Police Use of Force Database
"It's a problem that police departments across this country sometimes can't even tell you how many people they shot and killed the prior year and that we don't know how pervasive [their] use of force...
By Josiah Bates
February 11, 2021
How Black Filmmakers Are Reclaiming Their History Onscreen
Black creators are telling forgotten chapters of Black history, determined to reject white-savior narratives and center Black interiority
By Andrew R. Chow
February 3, 2021
Rochester Police Probe Pepper-Spraying of Girl During Arrest
The Rochester Police Department (RPD) is investigating the actions of several officers after a 9-year-old girl was restrained and pepper-sprayed during an arrest on Jan. 29. Around 150 people peacefully took to the city's streets...
By Josiah Bates
February 2, 2021
Police Forces Deal With Officers Involved in Capitol Riots
A New Hampshire police chief; a Philadelphia detective; two Seattle Police Department officers who traveled cross-country, to name just a few. In the aftermath of the historic insurrection that took place in Washington D.C. last...
By Josiah Bates
January 14, 2021
No Charges For Kenosha Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake
A Wisconsin DA has declined to file charges against officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot seven times Jacob Blake during an August 2020 incident
By Josiah Bates
January 5, 2021
2020 Ends as One of America's Most Violent Years in Decades
Across the U.S., this year has taken a heavy toll. The coronavirus has upended daily life and resulted in the deaths of over 300,000 people; 2020 is on track to be the "deadliest year in...
By Josiah Bates
December 30, 2020
COVID-19 Has Devastated U.S. Prison Populations
Mario Smith first broke out in cold sweats on Nov. 21. He thought it was just exhaustion from working maintenance shifts at the Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian, Mi., where he’s been incarcerated since...
By Madeleine Carlisle
December 28, 2020
Federal Government Joins Investigation Into Fatal Shooting of Casey Goodson
The federal government is joining an investigation into the shooting of Casey Goodson Jr., a Black man who was killed by a Sheriff’s Deputy in Columbus, Ohio on Dec. 4. The U.S. Attorney in Ohio,...
By Josiah Bates
December 7, 2020
Hate Crime Deaths Reach All-Time High in 2019
2019 saw a record high for reported hate crime murders in the United States, according to the annual Hate Crime Statistics report released on Monday by the FBI. Hate crimes are described by the FBI...
By Josiah Bates
November 16, 2020
Criminal Justice Activists Already Wary of Biden Administration
For many Americans, one of the more pressing domestic issues a Biden-Harris administration needs to tackle upon their inauguration in January is that of criminal justice and police reform. A hot-button issue during much of...
By Josiah Bates
November 13, 2020
DA Who Handled Ahmaud Arbery Case Voted Out
Amid an election cycle that has seen notable criminal justice wins—like the restoration of voting rights for people on parole in California and moves toward greater police oversight—voters in a Georgia city ousted a District...
By Josiah Bates
November 5, 2020
'The Relationship Has Always Been Tense.' Philadelphia's Police Department Has a Troubling History With the City's Black Community
Community members say the PPD has a well-documented history of racial discrimination and brutality against the Black population
By Josiah Bates
October 30, 2020
Protests Continue Over Police Shooting of Walter Wallace
Protesting and unrest continued throughout Tuesday night in Philadelphia as demonstrators chanted and demanded justice for Walter Wallace Jr., a Black man who was shot and killed by police on Monday. Over 1,000 people took...
By Josiah Bates
October 27, 2020
Minneapolis Residents Sue Over Reduced Police Presence
The lawsuit counters the widespread calls to defund police departments and take officers off the streets
By Josiah Bates
October 23, 2020
Why Grand Rapids Is Crowdsourcing Money to Address Violence
Grand Rapids, Mich., isn't a big city. But according to life-long resident JD Chapman Jr., it has a lot of "big-city problems" nonetheless. "We have all kinds of problems with our education, our health care...
By Josiah Bates
October 19, 2020
Police Officer Charged With Murder of Unarmed Black Man
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), officer Shaun Lucas was responding to a disturbance call of a "possible fight in progress" outside a gas station in Wolfe City on Saturday night. When officer Lucas arrived he had a confrontation with 31-year-old Jonathan Price.
By Josiah Bates
October 6, 2020
Breonna Taylor Grand Jury Records Offer Rare Insight
An unnamed juror filed a motion on accusing the Kentucky Attorney General of using the grand jury to deflect from his own responsibility
By Josiah Bates
September 30, 2020
Activists Grapple With Grand Jury’s Breonna Taylor Verdict
Louisville activists say that people weren't surprised by the grand jury’s decision, but many were still devastated
By Josiah Bates
September 25, 2020
Grand Jury Brings No Charges Over Breonna Taylor’s Death
A grand jury charged one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor—but only for his role shooting into neighboring apartments during the raid
By Josiah Bates
September 23, 2020
Sen. Chris Murphy on Gun Control and American Violence
Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy’s new book, The Violence Inside Us: A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy, offers a nuanced exploration of the history of violence in America, the driving forces behind the country's...
By Josiah Bates
September 3, 2020
Kenosha Residents, Community Activists Concerned Over Impact of President Trump's Visit
As the city of Kenosha, Wis. continues to process the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake—and the ensuing shooting of two protesters by a teen gunman—activists and community leaders in the city fear...
By Josiah Bates
September 2, 2020
Teen Charged After 2 Killed During Kenosha Protests
An Illinois teen has been arrested in Illinois in connection with the deaths of two people shot during protests in Kenosha, Wis. on Tuesday night. In recent days, demonstrators in the city have rallied against...
By Josiah Bates
August 26, 2020
Report: Police Shootings Continue Unabated Despite COVID-19 Shutdowns
While 2020 has seen a dramatic slowdown in the day-to-day activities and lives of many Americans amid the coronavirus pandemic, fatal police shootings are still occurring at a rate consistent with previous years—and with significant...
By Josiah Bates
August 19, 2020
Police Shooting Spurs More Unrest in Chicago
A night of looting is likely to further strain the relationship with the city's police department
By Josiah Bates
August 11, 2020
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