Joe Sexton
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Local Officials Say a Nursing Home Dumped Residents to Die at Hospitals —
The deaths of 18 residents of a New York nursing home highlight the continuing controversy over the Cuomo administration’s decision not to count deaths in hospitals as nursing home deaths. The home denies the allegations. → Read More
“Fire Through Dry Grass”: Andrew Cuomo Saw COVID-19’s Threat to Nursing Homes. Then He Risked Adding to It. —
A nursing home in Troy, New York, followed the governor’s order to accept patients being treated for COVID-19. Six weeks later, 18 residents were dead of the disease. → Read More
Two Coasts. One Virus. How New York Suffered Nearly 10 Times the Number of Deaths as California. —
California’s governor and San Francisco’s mayor worked together to act early in confronting the COVID threat. For Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, it was a different story, and 27,000 New Yorkers have died so far. → Read More
The Wrong Goodbye
A wrenching decision to end life support, and the unthinkable mistake that devastated not one but two families. → Read More
He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here’s What He Has to Say About What’s Going on Now. —
Michael German, a former federal agent, sees cause for praise and concern. → Read More
Las Vegas Man Arrested in Plots Against Jews Was Said to Be Affiliated With Atomwaffen Division —
The federal authorities confront a Neo-Nazi group that ProPublica and Frontline have been covering for years. → Read More
What Happened When A White Cop Decided Not to Shoot a Black Man
A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. → Read More
The Embarrassing State of U.S. Maternal Health-Care Data
It has gotten to the point that no official count of pregnancy-related deaths in this country or official maternal mortality rate even exists. → Read More
How Many American Women Die From Causes Related to Pregnancy or Childbirth? No One Knows. —
Data collection on maternal deaths is so flawed and under-funded that the federal government no longer even publishes an official death rate. → Read More
Amid the Blaring Headlines, Routine Reports of Hate-Fueled Violence
Documenting Hate’s catalogue of incidents captures the seeming ordinariness of many of them. → Read More
Why Do So Many Victims of Hate Crimes Never Notify Police?
A new federal survey on hate crimes offers cause for both alarm and confusion. → Read More
Victims in Thousands of Potential Hate Crimes Never Notify Police
A new federal survey on hate crimes offers cause for both alarm and confusion. → Read More
Hundreds of Judges Currently Preside in New York Without Law Degrees
A review of the work of the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct chronicles the costs of a tradition resistant to change. → Read More
We’re Investigating Hate Across the U.S. There’s No Shortage of Work.
The coalition of newsrooms behind “Documenting Hate” has recorded a wide variety of violence in all corners of the country. → Read More
The Cost of Trump’s Wall Compared to the Programs He’s Proposing to Cut
America may get its border wall. It just might have to do without a lot else. → Read More
Lawyers Formally Ask That Guilty Verdict Be Set Aside in Etan Patz Murder Case
Lawyers for the man convicted in the killing of a 6-year-old Manhattan boy who went missing in 1979 have filed a motion asking the judge in the case to set aside the guilty verdict because of jury contamination. → Read More
The Prominence and Plight of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
Girls, many of whom have suffered a range of trauma at home, make up a growing share of children arrested and detained across the country. → Read More
The Prominence and Plight Of Girls in the Juvenile Justice System
Girls, many of whom have suffered a range of trauma at home, make up a growing share of children arrested and detained across the country. → Read More
Jury Can’t Reach Verdict in Patz Murder Case
After 18 days of deliberation, a Manhattan jury said it was hopelessly deadlocked in case involving boy who went missing in 1979. → Read More
Detective's Interview Could Undercut Prosecution Case in Patz Murder Trial
The prosecution says Pedro Hernandez fled New York after killing Etan Patz. A detectives report from 1979 suggests that might not be so. → Read More