Simone Weichselbaum
Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Latest from Simone Weichselbaum
Two more lawsuits filed against NYPD captain accused of abusing female employees
An NYPD captain who has been sued twice for allegedly abusing female officers was hit with two more lawsuits after he was the subject of an NBC News investigation into gender discrimination in law enforcement.
Memphis police chief once led the aggressive ‘Red Dog’ anti-crime unit in Atlanta
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis is under scrutiny for her oversight of Atlanta’s Red Dog anti-crime unit, after officers with the similar Scorpion unit killed Tyre Nichols.
Major U.S. police departments plagued by officer-on-officer sexual abuse and retaliation
An NBC News review of more than 60 lawsuits costing taxpayers more than $40 million found disturbing accounts of sexual misconduct against female cops in big city departments.
'It's just insanity': ATF now needs 2 weeks to perform a routine gun trace
Boxes of paper records fill nearly every corridor of the ATF’s National Tracing Center, where agents are struggling to keep up with surging requests from local police.
‘Sending drivers out to die’: UPS workers demand heat safety amid record temps
UPS employees and union leaders say this year more workers seem to be getting sick and been hospitalized because of the heat than ever before.
Most police departments make recruits undergo psychological evaluation. Federal law enforcement agencies? Not so much.
Most big city police departments make officers undergo a psychological evaluation before getting a badge. Thousands of federal agents get no such evaluation.
Secret surveillance, mining customer data: How retailers help bag shoplifting kingpins
National chain stores employ their own investigators who build criminal cases against shoplifting rings. Law enforcement agencies welcome the help, but concerns abound.
Ohio fights retail theft by regulating sales on on-line marketplaces like Facebook
Ohio will require “high-volume” sellers, people who sell $5,000 worth of items within two years, to share banking, i.d. info with sites to fight retail theft.
'It’s an easy fast dollar': How organized retail theft rings in one Ohio town use Facebook Marketplace to sell stolen goods
How internet-savvy criminals in one Ohio town shoplift pricey items from big-box retailers and then sell the loot on Facebook Marketplace and similar sites.
Officers shot a Black man 59 times. Convicting a federal agent won’t be easy.
The indictment of a deputy U.S. marshal and Georgia police officer in the killing of Jamarion Robinson was applauded by his family. Experts say the case will likely fail.
Police face a 'crisis of trust' with Black motorists. One state's surprising policy may help.
Seeking to end racially biased policing, Virginia banned officers from pulling people over for such infractions as broken taillights. Police chiefs aren't happy.
