Very regularly - we're talking once or twice a day - someone leaves a confused comment, wondering why they can’t find anything online about an incident I covered on Real World Police. The answer those people are looking for, of course, is that many of the videos on Real World Police have not been covered by any other media outlet. Ever. I have been accused of faking entire videos by people who don’t understand this. (And who apparently think that I have the time and resources to do such a thing.)
The tools that I use to find and investigate stories are not secret. They are the tools of investigative journalism, and they include:
-Agency reports
-Analysis of court records and case filings
-Databases of public records
-On-record interviews
-Legal research
-Lawsuits
-Regulatory reports
-Scrutiny of government practices
-Off-the-record sources (typically only anonymous to you)
-State and federal access to public records laws, and
-Subscription-based research tools
From there it's 'just' a lot of hard work. And I like it.
That said, this story is a bit unusual.
When I am working on a story - which is always - mine is not the only investigation going on. I cover law enforcement, which means that the stories I cover usually contain their own investigations. Police investigations. Criminal investigations.
Those investigations are usually over by the time I get involved.
Not this time.
In this case, rather than covering a police investigation I am covering the police. And mine is the only investigation.
What I found can be summed up in short order:
Contrary to popular belief, police officers are in fact human beings. And sometimes people do stupid things.
Like crash their police car while watching Youtube.
Check it out.
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