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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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New Jersey Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck with several law enforcement officials announcing the results of a gun buyback that took place in three counties. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Crime
Gun Violence
New Jersey
Public Safety

N.J. gun buybacks yield more than 900 weapons, mostly handguns

Calling it “incredibly successful,” N.J. Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck announced that another gun buyback event will take place in October.

4 years ago

Damian Williams has been nominated to head the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan. Williams would be the first Black man to run the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.
(U.S. Attorney's Office via AP)
NPR
Government

Biden’s pick to lead one of the top federal prosecutor’s offices could make history

If confirmed, Williams would be the first Black man to lead the prestigious office that covers Manhattan, the Bronx and areas north of New York City.

4 years ago

Philadelphia City Hall is reflected in the windows of  the Office of the District Attorney. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Government Accountability
Policing

DA seeks contempt order against Philadelphia Police for failure to disclose officers’ disciplinary records

Krasner says his office sent out thousands of subpoenas asking for disciplinary records and received copies in which key information was redacted.

4 years ago

N.J. Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver - as acting governor - signs into law a bill that sets asides more than $8 million over two years to pilot a program in four cities that will help youth offenders get reintegrated into the community. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Incarceration
New Jersey

Four N.J. cities to pilot new reentry program for juvenile offenders

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver signed into law a bill that would pilot service hubs in four cities to help young offenders reintegrate into their communities.

4 years ago

New Jersey State Police car in Trenton, N.J.
New Jersey
Policing
NJ Spotlight

In a first, N.J. details disciplinary penalties for police

Some 87 agencies in 19 counties reported at least one disciplinary action. Hundreds of law enforcement agencies reported no actions against officers.

4 years ago

District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks during a news conference while standing with people who were exonerated, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, June 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Criminal Justice
Race & Ethnicity

Righting wrongful convictions

Philadelphia's Conviction Integrity Unit has exonerated 21 people in the past four years. An assistant D.A. and a man exonerated after 28 years discuss wrongful convictions.

Air Date: August 10, 2021 10:00 am

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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner addresses the media at a press conference
Kids
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Philly DA wants to hear from young people about the city’s gun violence epidemic

The series comes amid a historic and unrelenting surge in shootings and homicides in Philadelphia.

4 years ago

The affidavit from the FBI in support of an arrest warrant for Scott Kevin Fairlamb is photographed on Aug. 6, 2021. The New Jersey gym owner has become the first person to plead guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors say Fairlamb was one of the very first rioters to breach the Capitol. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
Crime
Policing
Politics

N.J. man among first Capitol rioters to plead guilty to assaulting police

The pleas come less than two weeks after a group of police officers testified at a congressional hearing about their harrowing confrontations with the mob of insurrectionists.

4 years ago

Larry Krasner speaks from a podium during a press conference
Addiction
Philadelphia
Public Health

Allegheny County joins Philly in backlash to Shapiro’s opioid settlement deal

The DA’s of Pennsylvania’s two biggest counties say an opioid settlement deal brokered by Attorney General Josh Shapiro won’t provide enough relief.

4 years ago

Rochelle Bilal speaks at a podium.
Crime
Gun Violence
Policing

Philly Sheriff’s Office nabs dozens of violent fugitives during mass sweep

“Operation Priority Takedown” was initiated amid a historic surge in gun violence in Philadelphia.

4 years ago

Community groups working against violence in the city of Philadelphia protested stop-and-frisk outside the 26th Police District in Fishtown. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Criminal Justice
Philadelphia
Policing

Philly pilot project seeks to halt ‘stop-and-frisk’ policing for quality-of-life offenses

The three-month project will require police officers to first ask people to stop engaging in prohibited behavior before they question or detain someone.

4 years ago

A car is pictured behind crime scene tape
Crime
Philadelphia
6abc

Hit-and-run driver who ran over woman twice in Center City arrested in Montco: Police

Police say the victim, who had just left work at a Center City restaurant, later died of her injuries.

4 years ago

Prosecutor Dan Goldberg points to defendant Nathaniel Rowland's car circling the block as Samantha Josephson waits for an Uber while delivering closing arguments during Rowland's trial, Tuesday, July 27, 2021, in Richland County Circuit Court in Columbia, S.C. Rowland was convicted Tuesday for the 2019 abduction and murder of the 21-year-old college student, who mistook his car for her Uber ride. (Tracy Glantz/The State via AP, Pool)
Crime
New Jersey

Man convicted of killing N.J. woman who mistook his car for Uber

A South Carolina man was convicted Tuesday of the 2019 abduction and murder of a 21-year-old college student from Robbinsville, New Jersey.

4 years ago

210727-Canton- Robert Aaron Long enters Superior Court of Cherokee County in Canton on Tuesday morning, July 27, 2021, for his plea hearing in the spa shootings. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gun Violence
Incarceration
Race & Ethnicity

Man pleads guilty to 4 Asian spa killings, sentenced to life

Robert Aaron Long, 22, still faces the death penalty in the four other deaths, which are being prosecuted in a different county.

4 years ago

An oil spill cleanup sock in a small waterway leading to Chester Creek
Crime
Environment
Pennsylvania

Delco DA Stollsteimer announces criminal charges in Brookhaven fuel spill

District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer says a Lee Transport Systems employee making a delivery allegedly caused an environmental “catastrophe.”

4 years ago

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