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Fusion Investigations Being Highlighted by The Center for Investigative Reporting

This week The Center for Investigative Reporting will be highlighting three of Fusion’s investigative reports for its I Files series on YouTube. The I Files selects and showcases the best investigative stories from around the globe. Check out the I Files here.

The three Fusion reports include –

• Would You Want Your 8-Year-Old Picking Tobacco? (Watch) 
• Mexican Teen Shot 8 Times by US Border Patrol (Watch)
• Increasing Number of Homemade Guns Being Used to Kill (Watch)

“Investigative journalism that exposes injustice and shines a light on stories that otherwise would go untold continues to be a cornerstone of what we do at Fusion,” Fusion CEO Isaac Lee recently said to staff.

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The Atlantic Calls Fusion Report Example of ‘Stellar Investigative Journalism’

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.