{
  "id": "2000-april-recent-car-stories",
  "slug": "2000-april-recent-car-stories",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-april-recent-car-stories.html",
  "year": 2000,
  "month": "April",
  "monthNum": 4,
  "headline": "Recent CAR stories",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "The Courier Houma, The Daily Comet, The Opelousas Daily World, The Philadelphia Inquirer",
  "summary": "Two major investigative journalism projects: Louisiana newspapers examine environmental regulatory oversight, while Philadelphia Inquirer documents systematic crime classification manipulation by police.",
  "keywords": [
    "investigation",
    "police",
    "environment"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Health & Environment",
    "Crime & Justice"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Recent CAR stories\n\n\"Louisiana: Polluter's Paradise?\"\nwww.dailycomet.com/pollute.html\nThe Courier Houma, The Daily Comet and The Opelousas Daily World\nFeb. 24-Feb. 28, 2000\nNew York Times Regional newspapers in Louisiana have teamed up to investigate how well the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is meeting its obligations.\n\n\"Crime in Philadelphia\"\nThe Philadelphia Inquirer\nwww.philly.com/packages/crime/\n\nApril 18, 1997 to Feb. 4, 2000\n\nIn 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.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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  "html_url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2000-april-recent-car-stories.html",
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