Angela Caputo
Stories
Thousands of public housing residents live near the most polluted places in the nation — and the government has done little to protect them
An investigation reveals that more than 9,000 federally subsidized housing properties sit within a mile of a Superfund site, and the government has failed to inform many residents of the potential threats they face. As a result, low-income renters are paying for government inaction with their health.
What happened at Minneapolis' 3rd Precinct — and what it means
Faced with angry, violent protesters after George Floyd’s death, Minneapolis city leaders made the unprecedented decision to abandon a police station. It marked not only the further erosion of the department’s relationship with the community, but perhaps the beginning of a shift in American policing.
A Covid-infected attendee emerges from CES, a massive tech conference in January
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas becomes an intriguing puzzle piece of the pandemic's spread after new Bay Area Covid-19 deaths indicate the virus' presence in the United States earlier than thought.
Voting rights advocates call on Georgia to halt controversial purges
Following an APM Reports investigation, the League of Women Voters wants the state to eliminate its "use it or lose it" policy.
How a massive voter purge in Georgia affected the 2018 election
State officials claimed that people removed from the voter rolls for inactivity had likely died or moved away. But an APM Reports investigation found tens of thousands who hadn't — and still wanted to vote.
A Georgia law prevented 87,000 people from voting last year. And it could have a big impact in 2020
Voter registration deadlines have long been a part of American elections, but an APM Reports investigation finds that they disenfranchised a surprising number of voters in 2018.
Tasers are less reliable than their maker has claimed. The results can be deadly
Tasers have become an essential tool for police, but how effective are they? An APM Reports investigation finds that officers in some big cities rated Tasers as unreliable up to 40 percent of the time, and in three large departments, newer models were less effective than older ones. In 258 cases over three years, a Taser failed to subdue someone who was then shot and killed by police.
Missouri leads the country in removing voters for 'mental incapacity'
People placed in adult guardianship can lose their right to vote, and in Missouri, this happens far more than in any other state.
Former Confederate states have purged a growing number of felons from voting lists
Most of the country is making it easier for former felons to vote. But in the South, the number of voters removed due to felonies has nearly doubled in the past decade, an APM Reports analysis shows.
Georgia purged an estimated 107,000 people largely for not voting, an APM Reports investigation shows
A handful of states, most of them led by Republicans, are using someone's decision not to vote as the trigger for removing them from the rolls. No state has been more aggressive with this approach than Georgia, where Brian Kemp, the secretary of state, oversaw the purging of a growing number of voters ahead of his own run for governor, according to an APM Reports investigation. Voting rights advocates call it a new form of voter suppression, and they fear it will soon spread to other states.