Julie Carr Smyth, correspondent, Columbus, Ohio; Angie Wang, video journalist; John Minchillo, photographer, Cincinnati; and Tony Dejak, photographer, Cleveland, produced a package that demonstrated how the vast majority of violent crime laws named for victims carry the names of white victims. With no databases available, Smyth did painstaking research with the help of other statehouse reporters, and the team reported a powerful story about one black middle-school student who was murdered, but for whom no law is named.
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