The Model City, Part 1: The Eye of the Storm

In 2016, the police chief laid out his vision: Louisville was going to become the kind of place where everyone across the city, no matter what neighborhood they lived in, would get the same treatment from the police — policing that’s about your protection, and safety. But that’s ...  Show more

Even as city leaders were making big promises about the model city they claimed Louisville was going to become, they were making decisions that undermined those policing reform goals. In 2016, there were 117 homicides in Louisville — at that point, the most in decades. Police res ...  Show more

It’s a pre-fixed menu - like one of those fancy Michelin star restaurants. 

Breakfast is served at 6 with two slices of their in house special bread. 

Lunch is their iconic “special k loaf.” A dense mixture of - bread and cereal. 

Dinner is typically a thick, ...

Joe West does everything to make sure childhood friend Oscar Lee Morris spends the rest of his life behind bars - or better yet - on Death Row. West decides to give police evidence that implicates Morris in a murder which took place at a Long Beach bathhouse back in 1978. His exp ...  Show more

Glenn Hirsch, a 51‑year‑old Queens resident, became infamously known as the "Duck Sauce Killer" after authorities said he fatally shot Chinese food deliveryman Zhiwen Yan following a dispute at the Great Wall restaurant over allegedly not receiving enough duck sauce packets 

In January of 2022, a Boston police officer was found dead in a snowbank outside the home of a friend. When his cause of death was discovered to be blunt force trauma and hypothermia, it soon became the belief that it had not been the result of a tragic accident, but instead, ...