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Deaf and Tased
A deaf crime victim calls police for help, but instead gets tased, beat-up, and thrown in jail for 60 hours over Easter weekend without access to an interpreter. KIRO 7’s investigative team proves police manipulated their reports to defend their actions. We also uncovered jail guards offered the deaf inmate a broken TTY phone as her only means of communication. We found that device still broken and in service two months later.
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Rules of Engagement
“Rules of Engagement” was a two-year investigation designed to shine public light on the March 6, 2007, murders of two deaf, unarmed teenage brothers and the killing of their unarmed and deaf teenage cousin by American soldiers in Iraq.
Tags: Iraq; murder; American soldiers
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Columbia's Knotty Noose Problem
A noose was left on the door to Madonna Constantine's office. Constantine was a black professor and a well-known expert on race issues in the classroom. But after this bizarre incident, rumors began to surface that she consistently cut corners by plagiarizing the work of students and colleagues. This investigation follows the rise and fall of Madonna Constantine, as the university at first turned a deaf ear to the rumors of her plagiarism.
Tags: race; higher education; professors; plagiarism; Madonna Constantine; experts; hate crimes
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Talking Hands
Talking Hands introduces a little-known branch of cognitive science: the linguistic, psychological and neurological study of sign language. "In recent years, research in these areas has been vital in shedding new light on the ways in which all language works in the human mind." In the book, a group of linguists study and analyze the "signing village" of Al-Sayyid, a remote Bedouin community in Israel that, because of isolation and intermarriage, has a rate of deafness 40 times that of the general population.
Tags: science; language; hands; sign language; deaf; cognitive; learning; speaking; linguists; signing village of Al-Sayyid;
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System Error
The Sun used a FOIA request to obtain a declassified version of a 2003 NSA report on Trailblazer, the program designed to "fix the holes" in NSA's information filter. In the report the agency's inspector general found "'inadequate management and oversight' of private contractors and overpayment for the work done." A govenment official told The Sun, "The government has been standing by while the agency has been gradually 'going deaf' as unimportant communications drown out key pieces of information."
Tags: National Security Agency; NSA; Lt. General Keith B. Alexander; Trailblazer; 9/11; post-9/11 investigations; Science Applications International Corporation; SAIC; Freedom of Information Act; FOIA; Fort Meade; Threat Operations Center; Jared Adams; General Michael V. Hayden; FBI's Virtual Case File program; TASC
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Deflowering the Bronx
The Village Voice looks at the conflict between the Parks Department and South Bronx residents over green spaces. Residents say "parks in the area are rarely maintained, chronically understaffed, and never programmed, and that officials are deaf to local culture in a way unthinkable in the more affluent North Bronx or Manhattan.
Tags: green spaces; Bronx; Parks Department; volunteers; parks
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Decades of Sex Abuse Plague Deaf School. For generations, state's students kept secrets.
An eight-month investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has found that sexual abuse at the Washington School for the Deaf has been shattering the lives of deaf children for at least half a century. The Post-Intelligencer looked into reports of persistent sexual abuse at a state-run school for the deaf. The problem is plaguing deaf schools across the country. There were 160 sex-related incidents at the school in a three-year period. The investigation spawned external reviews of the school from the governor's office; reforms were suggested and a six-member watchdog panel was appointed to make sure they were put into place.
Tags: child abuse; deaf school; sexual abuse; children; education; molestation; safety
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The Monkey Series: Shock the Monkeys; The Brain Gain; The Spy Who Loved Monkeys; Monkey in the Middle; Year of the Monkey
Willamette Week investigated a whistleblower's claims of inhumane treatment of research monkeys at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. Some of the stories shed light on "a controversial procedure for collecting rhesus semen samples, known as electro-ejaculation," which has later been modified. Another part of the series profiles a researcher who examines what causes depression by using primates. A third part focuses on how an undercover observer documented the use of kittens for hearing-problems and deafness research, the atrocities taking place at a fox farm, and the cruel training of elephants for circus purposes.
Tags: animal care; medical records; undercover investigations; behavioral psychology; animal rights; ethics; sperm gathering; veterinary medicine; public records requests; biotechnology; PETA; vegetarians; reproduction biology
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Silent Trust
WBRZ-TV reports about "student-on-student sexual misconduct at the Louisiana School for the Deaf in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Major findings ... include dozens of confirmed cases of student-on-student sexual misconduct ranging from inappropriate touching to repeated gang rape from 1989 to 1999... Inadequate supervision for the 256 students living in the school's six dorms... Inadequate training and pay for the 68 dorm monitors entrusted with student care... More than a million dollars in legal costs and legal settlements stemming from such incidents since 1989.. Administrative reticence to recognize and solve a problem..."
Tags: TAPE TRANSCRIPT teenagers sexual activity residential schools deaf education
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Deaf and Damned
Artie Martinez went for a walk with no clothes on in 1955. He was picked up and wound up in State Hospital, housed in the Cholla ward with violently disturbed patients. After four decades of incarceration, there is evidence that Martinez's biggest problem was his deafness.
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