On the nightstand: Sunday, 8/10/14

Today’s good reads in criminal-justice journalism, with an emphasis on longform narrative stories on crime and original reporting on crime victims and reforms in sentencing and prisons: Ben Poston and Joel Rubin use ambitious and transparent data-crunching tactics to show how the LAPD has cooked its crime-stats books, downgrading an estimated 1,200 recent serious crimes […]