Community Safety

Part six of a 20-month long investigation looking into hygiene stations that the City of Los Angeles distributed to homeless encampments.

Cristina del Mar Quiles reported this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2021 Domestic Violence Impact Reporting Fund.
Other stories by her include:
Mothers Of Femicide Victims Rescue Their Grandchildren

Grandmothers ignore their own trauma and loss to take care of the children of their murdered daughters.

Amner Martinez still doesn’t really know all the details from when his 74-year-old father Concepcion got really sick with COVID-19 near the beginning of the pandemic.

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:
COVID struck the nation's meatpacking plants more than a year ago. But worker safety is still a contentious issue

In Texas, those charged with crimes and found mentally incompetent are entitled to treatment at a state hospital before returning to jail and standing trial. The failing system waitlists hundreds. Sometimes they die sooner than receiving treatment.

This project was produced as part of the 2021 National Fellowship with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.
Other stories by Natalie Krebs include:

"There used to be a time when license plates had numbers on it for each county based on population and Pulaski County was one and Jefferson County and Mississippi County were two and three."

While progress to address poor birth outcomes among Black Oklahomans has been slow, women are taking action themselves.

The Cook County state’s attorney recently learned her former physical trainer is addicted to heroin and has been in and out of jail for it.