Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

Law Enforcement Takes Advantage Of Hazy Lines Between Public, Private Life

The expanding use of public surveillance tools, like Stingrays, among law enforcement illustrates the dire need for a clear demarcation of public and private space.

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Par Frederick Reese
The Atlanta Police Department unveils their new SkyWatch system to increase security, deter crime and provide police with more information. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

In 2008, then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s general counsel approved the covert purchase of a Stingray unit for the Illinois State Police. More than $240,000 in federal Homeland Security funds were used in the unit’s acquisition. Another $12,800 was spent to train four special agents on how to use the device at the Florida headquarters of Harris

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ABA Says Lawyers Can Track Jurors’ Social Media Activity

In-trial social media use among jurors could constitute a constitutional violation, but pre-trial social media use can be a boon in jury selection.

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Par Frederick Reese

Two members of a Macomb County, Michigan, jury posted updates to Facebook while the trial was still being heard late last month. Before the jury had reached a verdict, the foreman had indicated online that he was considering a sentence and was already predisposed to a verdict. “Not cool a young man is dead another young man will be in prison for

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The Political Legacy Of Hip Hop That Once Was

For black music in America today, the audience has never been so large, but the political voice has never been so faint.

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Par Frederick Reese
Immortal Technique

For many who grew up on “the Motown Sound,” there has always been an uneasy comfort about the world and the black American’s place in it. Distressed over the fight for civil rights, frustrated with the Vietnam War -- a conflict that many blacks saw as an unnecessary show of force that took attention away from domestic concerns -- and aggravated by

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Confusion Over Lost Emails, Recycled Hard Drives Mark House’s IRS Probe

Whether genuine or “convenient,” equipment issued to a former IRS employee is gone, complicating an investigation into an allegedly discriminatory practice she spearheaded.

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Par Frederick Reese

In the continuing drama of the House’s investigation of the IRS’s alleged targeting of conservative social welfare groups and of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organization Division of the IRS, the group responsible for the discrimination, a matter of routine housekeeping has become a major issue. Rep. Darrel Issa, chairman of the

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Can America Ever Return To Non-Interventionism?

Insurgency Issue In Iraq Begs Questions On U.S. Political Entanglements.

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US warship, the USS Donald Cook. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

The recent insurgency attacks in Iraq have led many in and outside of the United States to question whether the U.S. has reneged on its obligations to Iraq. In the United Kingdom, Tony Blair -- who was prime minister when the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was made and who recently denied that the Second Iraqi War was the rationale behind the

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Questions Of Racial Profiling As Santa Barbara Pushes For Gang Injunction

In a bid to limit the escalation of gang activity, a California city seeks an injunction against a list of gang members it compiled based on controversial criteria.

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Par Frederick Reese
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Like many cities throughout the United States, Santa Barbara, California, is gripped by gang warfare -- at least according to the city’s law enforcement community. Alleging that there have been 17 gang-related homicides within the borders of the university city, the city’s law enforcement community argues that gang violence has the potential to

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The “51 Percenter” Bitcoin Apocalypse Is Nigh

A bitcoin mining pool has grabbed control of more than 50 percent of bitcoin processing, threatening the democratic and decentralized nature of the cryptocurrency.

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Par Frederick Reese
Bitcoin

Since the bitcoin was created five years ago, one of its defining security characteristics has been that due to high production costs and the popularity of the cryptocurrency, it was theoretically improbable that a single person or entity could claim majority control over the bitcoin. This, in effect, prevented the creation of a centralized

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