Josiah Bates

Josiah Bates is a reporter for TIME based in New York City

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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

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

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

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 and Melissa Locker

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

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

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

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 and Karl Vick

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 and Josiah Bates

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

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 , Jenna Caldwell , Josiah Bates , Nadia Suleman , Naina Bajekal , Paulina Cachero , Sanya Mansoor and Suyin Haynes

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

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

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. and Josiah Bates

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

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 and Melissa Chan

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

Why the Term 'Defund the Police' Has Become Divisive

There are varying perspectives and ideas on what "defund the police" means

By Josiah Bates

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

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
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