How confidential informants like LeBron Gaither, recruited by police as a teen and killed by a drug dealer, are seen by the criminal system as disposable.
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Collateral Damage
How the pre-planned no-knock raid — a violent, volatile tactic that became a common tool of the drug war — led to tragic consequences, in the story of Ryan Frederick and Detective Jarrod Shivers.
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The Atlanta narcotics unit’s deadly raid on 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston.
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Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.
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The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by investigative journalist Radley Balko.
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