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Stephen Janis is an award winning investigative reporter turned documentary filmmaker. His first feature film, The Friendliest Town was distributed by Gravitas Ventures and won an award of distinction from The Impact Doc Film Festival, and a humanitarian award from The Indie Film Fest. He is the co-host and creator of The Police Accountability Report on The Real News Network, which has received more than 10,000,000 views on YouTube. His work as a reporter has been featured on a variety of national shows including the Netflix reboot of Unsolved Mysteries, Dead of Night on Investigation Discovery Channel, Relentless on NBC, and Sins of the City on TV One.

He has co-authored several books on policing, corruption, and the root causes of violence including Why Do We Kill: The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore and You Can’t Stop Murder: Truths about Policing in Baltimore and Beyond. He is also the co-host of the true crime podcast Land of the Unsolved. Prior to joining The Real News, Janis won three Capital Emmys for investigative series working as an investigative producer for WBFF. Follow him on Twitter.

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Video still from police body camera footage during the arrest of Wendy Acker and Mike Logering at their home in Minnesota.
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He called cops for help; they broke down his door and arrested him instead

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A cop falsely arrested him for DUI, but what his lawyer uncovered is even worse

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Police and the policy of exceptionalism: A guide to debunking anti-defund rhetoric

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis April 19, 2022April 20, 2022
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A cop charged her with failure to obey—his body camera tells a different story

by Taya Graham and Stephen Janis April 15, 2022April 15, 2022
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