Recent CAR stories — Uplink Archive

Two major investigative journalism projects: Louisiana newspapers examine environmental regulatory oversight, while Philadelphia Inquirer documents systematic crime classification manipulation by police.

Recent CAR stories

"Louisiana: Polluter's Paradise?" www.dailycomet.com/pollute.html The Courier Houma, The Daily Comet and The Opelousas Daily World Feb. 24-Feb. 28, 2000 New York Times Regional newspapers in Louisiana have teamed up to investigate how well the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is meeting its obligations.

"Crime in Philadelphia" The Philadelphia Inquirer www.philly.com/packages/crime/

April 18, 1997 to Feb. 4, 2000

In a stream of series over two years, the Inquirer has documented how Philadelphia police have been systematically "downgrading" crimes for years, booking them as lesser offenses that don't appear in the FBI's national listing of crime rates.