Chris Hacker

Computational Journalist at the Washington Post

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

I dug through over 10,000 pages of internal police records to report this story over the last 2 years.

US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes.

https://t.co/lZ7PuiWZfD

Some details🧵

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@siyabuilt @cursor_ai How is this even possible

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@atoherbert Check this out, from our editor on the sold police guns story: https://t.co/XbyMAFZ8Eg

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

I dug through over 10,000 pages of internal police records to report this story over the last 2 years.

US police departments quietly sell untold numbers of their used guns. Thousands of those guns have turned up at crime scenes.

https://t.co/lZ7PuiWZfD

Some details🧵

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. On Monday, a federal judge dropped an extraordinarily important decision.

It has received ZERO media attention.

In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. It was intended to curb white supremacist violence against Black Americans.

In 1967, the Supreme Court flipped it on its head.

They "interpreted" the Ku Klux Klan Act to provide "qualified immunity" to law enforcement officers who violate Constitutional rights in "good faith." It has allowed law enforcement officers who abuse their power to escape accountability.

A federal judge, Carlton Reeves, just issued a powerful ruling urging the Supreme Court to acknowledge its mistake and repeal the doctrine of qualified immunity.

Follow along if interested.

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[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@ZackNewsMan Thanks Zack!

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

That's one example among thousands. This map based on data I pulled out of a heavily redacted sample of ATF trace data obtained by @reveal.

This is less than 3% of the full 52,000 police guns we know were traced to crime scenes. It shows over 800 PDs' guns showed up in crimes:

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

One of the guns in those pages was later recovered by police in Pittsburgh responding to a shotspotter call. We actually got the ATF trace report for that case showing law enforcement knew one of their old guns had wound up in criminal hands.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

Patrick Braxton was elected as Mayor in the majority Black town of Newbern, Alabama.

But the previous office holder, a white man, and the town’s council, also white, have refused to vacate the office.

For years. https://t.co/cJYEyuqgNb

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@rcbregman The fact that directly under this tweet rn I'm seeing a Shein add advertising $3 shorts only makes this worse

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@TheEconomist If an article has this many white supremacist replies as this one does, it really does beg the question as to the motivation of the author

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@ballesteros_312 Well this is an editor’s note and a half

[Chris Hacker @chrishnews]

@peoplesfabric #tummytime

[ProPublica @propublica]

A Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by saying over and over that his girlfriend stole his car.

And it worked.

All 44 times, his tickets were dismissed. 👇🧵

[Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 @mattdpearce]

Corporate bullying like this is why journalists need to forge ahead with holding the platforms accountable with bills like CJPA.

The platforms have skimmed from our work, bought off publishers with “charitable” grants, then act like bullies the moment they face accountability.

[Chris Tye @TVTye]

Tonight at 6 @cbschicago:
DCFS didn't have a place to put a 9-year old after her psych stay at this hospital ended, so she remained here with an overage cost of $34,000.
DCFS reimbursed itself with money earmarked for the girl from her deceased father's social security benefits.