THE WEEKLY REVEAL
Saturday, April 19, 2025
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This week:
- Police talk a lot about getting guns off the street. But thousands of their own guns are ending up at crime scenes after police put them up for sale.
- This week on More To The Story, an economist on why tariffs almost never live up to their intended effects.
- We hear from the families of the Venezuelan migrants sent down a deportation black hole.
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THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
How Police Guns End Up in the Hands of Criminals
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Candace Leslie holds a photo of her late son, Cameron Brown, who was shot and killed in Indianapolis in 2021. The Glock pistol recovered at the scene had previously belonged to a California sheriff's department. Credit: Lee Klafczynski for The Trace
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When the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department in California wanted to purchase new firearms, it sold its used ones to help cover the cost. The old guns went to a distributor, which then turned around and sold them to the public. One of those guns—a Glock pistol—found its way to Indianapolis.
That Glock was involved in the killing of Maria Leslie’s grandson, and the fact that it once belonged to law enforcement makes her loss sting even more.
“My grandson was in his own apartment complex. He lived there,” Leslie said. “He should not have been murdered there, especially with a gun that traces back all the way to the California police department’s coffers.”
This week on Reveal, in an update of a collaboration with The Trace and CBS News that first aired last year, reporter Alain Stephens examines a common practice for police departments—trading in their old weapons rather than destroying them—and how it’s led to tens of thousands of old cop guns ending up in the hands of criminals.
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🎧 Other places to listen: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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MORE TO THE STORY
What Trump’s Tariff Shock Will Cost You
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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the White House Rose Garden on April 2. Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP
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Justin Wolfers teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. It’s an introductory course about supply, demand, and trade. The basics. He wishes President Donald Trump attended.
Wolfers, an Australian known for his research on how happiness relates to income, is one of the more prominent economists speaking up about Trump’s sweeping tariff policies that he says not only betray the most basic laws of economics, but could very well tip the US into a recession unnecessarily.
On this episode of More To The Story, Wolfers sits down with host Al Letson to discuss why today’s tariffs are markedly different from the ones Trump imposed in 2018 and why tariffs almost never produce the intended effects that are often promised.
Find this episode wherever you listen to Reveal, and don’t forget to subscribe:
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | Pandora
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“They were kidnapped. Why do I say ‘kidnapped’? Because if they have no ties to El Salvador and they don’t have to pay for any crimes in El Salvador, then this is a kidnapping.”
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Génesis Lozada Sánchez is speaking about her brother, Wuilliam, who was sent to a megaprison in El Salvador. She is one of several family members of men imprisoned in El Salvador without court hearings who shared their stories with Mother Jones reporters Isabela Dias and Noah Lanard.
Wuilliam had one thing in common with the other men: tattoos that experts say offer no connection to membership in the Tren de Aragua gang.
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This issue of The Weekly Reveal was written by Kate Howard and edited by Nikki Frick. If you enjoyed this issue, forward it to a friend. Have some thoughts? Drop us a line with feedback or ideas!
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