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How To Get Arrested Without Really Trying

An in-depth look at law and disorder exposes some of the tensions between police and the communities they serve and how video cameras are dramatically changing the public’s relationship with law enforcement. (Anna Vignet/Reveal)

Wiggling while handcuffed; bracing one hand on the steering wheel during an arrest; yelling at an officer; getting out of a car in a high-crime neighborhood and looking “suspicious.”

In Washington, D.C., all of those actions have led to someone being charged with “assaulting a police officer.”

Here & Now contributor station WAMU, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and the public radio show “Reveal” teamed up to look into this charge during a five-month-long investigation. Patrick Madden of WAMU reports.

• Read more on this story via “Reveal”

Reporter

• Patrick Madden, district reporter at WAMU.