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Journalism Collaborative Launches Project on Witness Safety
The press conference in October followed a well-worn script. Community leaders and police gathered on the sturdy stone steps of City Hall, taking turns at a microphone, pleading with Clevelanders to abandon a code of silence. Once again, a child had been gunned down. This time, it was a first grader, who’d been sleeping when…
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Sidebar: Beleaguered Cincinnati agency probing stop complaints rarely faults cops
Reporters from the nonprofit newsroom Eye on Ohio, The Cincinnati Enquirer and researchers from Stanford University’s Big Local News program examined police stops to assess how the three largest communities in Ohio use public safety resources and to identify possible bias in policing. By Max Londberg Cincinnati, like all cities, has an imperfect policing record. …
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Down But Not Out in East Cleveland
Three years after its failed bid at a merger with Cleveland, the poorest city in the state of Ohio ventures a comeback By Jordan Heller EAST CLEVELAND — After dropping off a “wet one” (a man high on PCP) at University Hospitals Emergency Room, the ambulance pulled northeast onto Euclid Avenue near Cleveland’s border with…