This week Fusion’s investigative unit published a report about the realities of living in Miami Gardens with what one called “‘stop and frisk on steroids.”  The report by Fusion’s Dan Lieberman and Alice Brennan was picked up by numerous outlets including The Huffington Post, The Drudge Report, Slate, and The Atlantic. In writing about the Fusion report, The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf said “this is stellar investigative journalism.”

After a 6-month investigation, the TV network Fusion has documented a racist, illegal policing strategy that a local public defender calls “stop and frisk on steroids.” One Miami Gardens police officer reports that his supervisor ordered him to stop all black males between the ages of 15 and 30. Just 110,754 people live in Miami Gardens, yet going back to 2008, police have stopped and questioned 56,922 people who were not arrested. There were 99,980 total stops that did not lead to arrests, and 250 individuals were stopped more than 20 times. 

Fusion also documented multiple instances of police officers falsifying official field reports, claiming to stop and question people who were actually already in county jail. 

This is stellar investigative journalism.