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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Why is California’s attorney general trying to get reporters to destroy a list of police officers convicted of crimes?

    There’s a private list containing names of thousands of California police officers who have been convicted of a crime in the past decade. Reporters for the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley got a hold of it and wrote about it.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Feb 27, 2019 • 1 min read

    There’s a private list containing names of thousands of California police officers who have been convicted of a crime in the past decade. Reporters for the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley got a hold of it and wrote about it. Now California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is threatening legal action against them.

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    2 of 3
    Michael Cohen’s testimony: Political and legal analysis
    1. 0:00Michael Cohen implicates Trump in bank fraud, tax fraud, and campaign finance felonies
    2. 25:10Why is California’s attorney general trying to get reporters to destroy a list of police officers convicted of crimes?You’re reading this
    3. 34:38‘90s California bands that defined the second wave of punk rock
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