Ailsa Chang appears in the following:
Obama Travels To Capitol Hill To Talk Gun Control, Tax Reform, And Spending Cuts
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Senate Committee Passes First Of 4 Gun Control Bills
Friday, March 08, 2013
Senate Committee Passes Bill Meant To Reduce 'Straw Purchases' Of Guns
Thursday, March 07, 2013
Four Things To Know About The Next Big Budget Battle
Tuesday, March 05, 2013
House Passes Expansion Of Violence Against Women Act
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Artist Behind Rosa Parks Statue: She Was 'Superwoman Dressed In Clark Kent's Clothes'
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Sick Workers' Dilemma: Stay Home Or Go To Work?
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wall Street Wiretaps: Investigators Use Insiders' Own Words To Convict Them
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
HSBC Critic: Too Big To Indict May Mean Too Big To Exist
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Sandy Victims Get Bird's-Eye View Of Homelessness
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Post-Sandy, Residents Gut Hard-Hit Rockaway
Monday, November 12, 2012
Holiday Jobs Come With Uncertainty For Workers
Saturday, October 06, 2012
Retailers expect to hire, but for seasonal workers, the hours can be scarce — and unpredictable.
Shootings in the City: A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Two neighborhoods are still reeling from two fatal shootings on Friday. A gunman opened fired near the Empire State Building, leaving nine injured and two dead, including the shooter. A few hours earlier, a 13-year-old boy had become the latest child shooting victim when he was killed a few blocks away from his Brownsville home. Midtown Manhattan and Brownsville, Brooklyn: neighborhoods that have had vastly different experiences with gun violence.
Bronx DA Declines to Prosecute
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang discusses her months-long investigation that reveals that the Bronx DA declines to prosecute far more cases than other borough's DA's.
Cycle of Mistrust Leaves Crimes Unprosecuted in the Bronx
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
A policy may be causing prosecutors to give up on cases too soon in the Bronx. Some veteran police officers say, moreover, that it effectively substitutes the individual victim’s judgment for the community’s – though it’s the community’s interest that law enforcement is supposed to serve. And Bronx residents say the breakdown in relations between the public and the authorities prompts at least some crime victims to take justice into their own hands.
In the Bronx, Victims Get 24 Hours to Talk – Or the DA Lets the Accused Walk
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
A months-long WNYC investigation has revealed that those accused of crimes in the Bronx have a greater chance of walking away without any charges than anywhere else in the city.
Map: NYPD Finds Most Guns Outside Stop-and-Frisk Hotspots
Monday, July 16, 2012
Using data from the New York City police department, WNYC mapped all street stops by police that resulted in the recovery of a gun last year. The digital map shows an interesting pattern — the areas where the NYPD finds guns are not necessarily the places where the police are devoting the most stop-and-frisk resources.
Amid Criticism, Kelly Defends Rhetoric as Community Leaders Push Back on Tone
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly is taking heat for remarks he made this week accusing elected officials of spending more time criticizing police than offering ideas about howc to stop violence in their communities.
The NYPD and "Reasonable Suspicion"
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Judges have overturned some convictions arising from the city's controversial stop-and-frisk program, saying NYPD officers didn't have the needed "reasonable suspicion" to stop and frisk the suspects. WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang looks at how individual officers make that call.
On the Street, Cops Say Stop And Frisk Is About Judgment Calls
Monday, July 09, 2012
As the debate over the NYPD's stop-an- frisk tactics continues, so too does the debate over what constitutes reasonable suspicion of criminal activity before an officer can stop someone. Both former and current cops say “reasonable suspicion” may be easy for lawyers and judges to define, but — on the street — deciding when to stop someone can be a difficult judgment call.
