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Federal agents in military fatigues chat with Chicago police officers in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood on Oct. 4, 2025, after federal agents shot a woman during a confrontation. Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Are sanctuary policing policies no more than a public relations facade?

In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
Annie Dookhan, center, pictured with her family in a Boston courtroom Nov. 22, 2013, after she pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence. Dookhan was a state chemist. David L. Ryan/AP/The Boston Globe

How corruption in forensic science is harming the criminal justice system

Forensic science is only as good as the equipment and the people who calibrate it, some high-profile cases indicate. Thousands of innocent people have been harmed. Here’s how.

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