The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "urban crime" ...
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Frequent Fire
This is a story Doug Smith and his colleagues did for the LA Times on the small group of officers who were involved in multiple shootings in the line of duty. The story outlines the methods Smith, Lait and Glover used to uncover a pattern of violence among a relatively small number of police officers.
Tags: CAR; LAPD; officer-involved shootings; IAD; urban crime
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Sources for Covering Your Local Transit Agency
McGinty provides sources and what you can find by using them, such as the National Transit Database and Florida International University's database. Both contain dozens of spreadsheets with ridership information, revenue, crime data and so on. McGinty also lists some must-read documents for covering transit in your area.
Tags: Transportation; public transportation; U.S. census data; urban mobility; NTD; metropolitan transit
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Tipsheet No: 805
This technical appendix to the Miami Herald's investigative series on Dade County's criminal justice system combines data from a variety of sources to gauge the effectiveness of the county's criminal courts and compare them to courts in other large urban areas.
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Tipsheet No: 759
This handout provides hints on uncovering social ills, such as economic discrimination and crime. Also included is a case study on abortion data.
Tags: social ills; economic discrimination; crime