Radley Balko
Investigative journalist on policing, forensics and criminal justice; wrote Rise of the Warrior Cop and writes The Watch.
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Newsletter The Watch His newsletter on policing and criminal justice. Has a feed.
Recent
- Breaking: DA demands DNA from Chris Duncan and Haley Oliveaux’s mother 17 Sept 2026 Louisiana continues to persecute a wrongly convicted man
- The framing of Chris Duncan: Part Two 14 Sept 2026 “God doesn’t let innocent babies die for no reason. Somebody has to be punished.”
- The framing of Chris Duncan 1 Sept 2026 Part One: “You won’t believe the videotape we have.”
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- Roundup: Chris Duncan, reader response to suing Stephen Miller, our ongoing immigration nightmare 9 Aug 2026 Links, reader mail, and a NBC interviews me for a report on a wrongful conviction in Louisiana
- Suing Stephen Miller 20 Jul 2026 It's time to put everyone from Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to the most recent ICE hire on notice: a reckoning is coming
- A guide to racism in the criminal justice system 8 Jul 2026 A repository of studies, surveys, and reports on the disparate ways white, Black, and Latino people are treated by police, prosecutors, courts, and prisons
- The unremitting fire 4 Jul 2026 Our 250-year struggle is real, difficult, and as necessary as ever
- How The Free Press spun Trump's cruelty toward migrants as a heroic campaign to "save" kids 25 Jun 2026 As Bari Weiss guts CBS News -- and sets her sights on CNN -- the publication she founded continues to sanitize this administration's worst abuses
- How Bari Weiss's Free Press laundered MAGA talking points about refugees 5 Jun 2026 As Weiss rebuilds CBS News and 60 Minutes in her own image, her flagship publication continues to whitewash some of Trump's cruelest policies
- You can't hide your lying ICE: The covered-up killing of Ruben Ray Martinez 29 May 2026 It took nearly a year for the public to learn that a DHS officer killed a Latino man and U.S. citizen -- and that federal officers lied about how it happened.
- You can't hide your lying ICE: The shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis 22 May 2026 A Minneapolis prosecutor charges an ICE agent, exposing how DHS shamelessly lied after its officers shot an immigrant, tear gassed two kids, and put a bullet in the wall of a child's bedroom.
- Truth, power, and honest journalism 15 May 2026 Garry Tan, the CEO of venture capital firm Y Combinator, accused me of unethical reporting. This is my response.
- A conversation with Dawn Deaner, a public defender running for judge 26 Apr 2026 The longtime Nashville public defender discusses what she's learned from 20 years in the trenches, what needs to change, and what she would do on the bench
- Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? 24 Apr 2026 An experiment with AI underscores the perils of police deception and the Reid technique
- You can't hide your lying ICE: The harassment of Francisco Longoria 8 Apr 2026 Federal immigration officers racially profiled a man, fired at his truck, raided his home at 4 am, and arrested him. Then they lied about it all -- both in public and in court.
- You can't hide your lying ICE 28 Mar 2026 Documenting DHS lies about ICE and Border Patrol abuses: The illegal raid on ChongLy Scott Thao
- Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin 18 Mar 2026 Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem faces the Senate today. Here's what they should ask him.
- Questions for Markwayne Mullin 13 Mar 2026 What we need to hear -- but probably won't -- from Trump's nominee to replace Kristi Noem
- The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation 16 Feb 2026 The Democrats demanded that Trump's immigration cops follow the law and the Constitution. The Republicans called those demands "nonstarters."
- The Roundup: Too much ICE 3 Feb 2026 The government is cracking down. The people are standing up.
Link verified 20 Sept 2026. Recent items update automatically from the channel.
Beliefs
Korrents What they believe 10 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.
Each is a — compiled by korrents.com, not by them: the one-line wordings are korrents', the quotes are theirs.
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Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway.
To be clear, bitemark evidence is junk science. There has never been any scientific research to support the idea that bites on human skin can be matched to the teeth of one person, to the exclusion of everyone else.
The framing of Chris Duncan Said 1 Sept 2026
Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.
And while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.
The framing of Chris Duncan Said 1 Sept 2026
Letting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want.
Prosecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.
The framing of Chris Duncan Said 1 Sept 2026
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A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.
The old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
The framing of Chris Duncan Said 1 Sept 2026
Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice system Said 8 Jul 2026
The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.
The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? Said 24 Apr 2026
A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.
A confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? Said 24 Apr 2026
Non-coercive interrogation still produces confessions, and more reliable ones, so coercion is not the price of solving crimes.
Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? Said 24 Apr 2026
An administrative warrant is not a warrant at all: it records an officer's own hunch instead of a judge's independent finding.
An administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation Said 16 Feb 2026
Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.
And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation Said 16 Feb 2026
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An administrative warrant is not a warrant at all: it records an officer's own hunch instead of a judge's independent finding. 2 hold this
An administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation Said 16 Feb 2026
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From one piece The framing of Chris Duncan 4 beliefs · radleybalko.substack.com
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korrents.com
A broken criminal justice institution survives precisely because it serves the people who run it.Their words
The old system stubbornly defied reform because it served the people in power.
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korrents.com
Letting prosecutors pick who performs an autopsy produces the findings prosecutors want.Their words
Prosecutors tended to choose doctors they could trust to give them the results they wanted.
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korrents.com
Forensic experts exposed as frauds, and the prosecutors who keep using them, face no consequences.Their words
And while some courts have ruled that Hayne and West aren’t credible experts, the two men never faced any real accountability.
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korrents.com
Bite-mark matching is junk science, and the courts have admitted it for five decades anyway.Their words
To be clear, bitemark evidence is junk science. There has never been any scientific research to support the idea that bites on human skin can be matched to the teeth of one person, to the exclusion of everyone else.
9 August
20 July
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korrents.com
Recorded crime partly measures policing: a neighbourhood policed harder produces more crime in the statistics.Their words
Particularly with gun and drug crimes, communities with more aggressive policing tend to produce more crimes in part because law enforcement polices them more aggressively.
A guide to racism in the criminal justice systemradleybalko.substack.com
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From one piece Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit? 3 beliefs · radleybalko.substack.com
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Their words
Canada and much of Europe have adopted different interrogation techniques — such as the PEACE method — which emphasize collecting reliable information over coercion. These approaches still garner confessions; they’re just more reliable.
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korrents.com
A confession stops the investigation that would have cleared the innocent person who gave it.Their words
A confession, though, will sometimes preclude police from doing the very sort of investigation that would prove the confessor’s innocence.
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korrents.com
The dominant American police interrogation method is good at producing confessions and bad at producing true ones.Their words
The Reid technique works at getting confessions. But it’s less successful at getting accurate ones.
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16 February
From one piece The Constitution is not a bargaining chip for a budget negotiation 2 beliefs · radleybalko.substack.com
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korrents.com
Constitutional limits on policing are not policy preferences to be traded away in a budget negotiation.Their words
And that risks giving the impression that basic constitutional rights and restraints on police and executive power that date back to the Founding are, actually, negotiable.
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Their words
An administrative warrant is just a way for a law enforcement officers to memorialize a hunch on paper.
3 February
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