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Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey

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Polk Award Winners: Brian Howey

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2024/04/18
Longform

Longform

2024/04/18
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Brian Howey is a freelance journalist who won the Polk Award for Justice Reporting after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. He began the project, which was eventually published by the Los Angeles Times and Reveal, as a graduate s...

Highlights

This episode features Brian Howey, an award-winning investigative journalist whose groundbreaking work exposed a deeply troubling police practice: deliberately withholding news of a loved one’s death or injury during interrogations of grieving family members.
03:31
Lexipol advises police to clean blood from injured suspects to avoid civil liability
07:15
Officers are trained to gather family information before revealing a death to shape narrative control
13:41
The story goes beyond policy, showing how the experience can be a secondary victimization
17:23
Most law-enforcement officers were horrified by the deceptive police tactic
27:03
Howey and colleagues published an investigation about the Rankin County Sheriff's Department's 'Goon Squad' that tortures drug suspects

Chapters

What happens when police withhold a loved one's death to get a confession?
00:00
How did a university investigation uncover real-world use of deceptive interviews?
07:15
Why did raw audio of grieving parents change how this story was told?
13:41
When is it ethical to share a family's trauma—and who gets to decide?
17:23
Who should tell families their loved one has died—and why does it matter?
21:04

Transcript

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