Longreads Best of 2018: Crime Reporting
Pamela ColloffProPublica senior reporter and New York Times Magazine writer-at-large.
Pamela ColloffProPublica 高级记者和《纽约时报》杂志特约撰稿人。
## The Disappeared (Hannah Dreier, ProPublica with Newsday)
## 失踪者（Hannah Dreier，ProPublica 与 Newsday）
When eleven high school students went missing in a single county on Long Island in just two years, law enforcement shrugged.
当长岛一个县的 11 名高中生在短短两年内失踪时，执法部门耸了耸肩。
Most of the teenagers who disappeared were recent transplants from Central America, and many of them were last seen heading into the woods, lured by the promise of weed.
大多数失踪的青少年都是刚从中美洲移居过来的人，他们中的许多人最后一次被看到是被大麻的诱惑走进了树林。
The Suffolk County police department responded with stomach-churning indifference, telling frantic parents that their children had simply run away.
萨福克县警察局的反应冷漠得令人反胃，告诉疯狂的父母，他们的孩子只是逃跑了。
Hannah Dreier chronicles an upside-down world in which one boy’s mother – an envelope factory employee who speaks no English – is left to piece together what happened to her son.
汉娜·德雷尔（Hannah Dreier）记录了一个颠倒的世界，其中一个男孩的母亲——一名不会说英语的信封工厂员工——只能拼凑出发生在她儿子身上的事情。
Based on more than 100 interviews and voluminous public records, Hannah Dreier’s storytelling is as vivid as it is effortless.
基于 100 多次采访和大量公开记录，汉娜·德雷尔 (Hannah Dreier) 的故事讲述既生动又轻松。
She builds upon an accumulation of damning details — like the fact that one Spanish-speaking mother, whose son was murdered, had to pay a taxi driver to interpret for her at the police station.
她建立在一系列令人震惊的细节之上——比如，一位讲西班牙语的母亲，她的儿子被谋杀了，不得不花钱请出租车司机在警察局为她翻译。
(“He kept the clock running and charged her $70,” Dreier writes.) “The Disappeared,” which was turned into an episode of This American Life, is a devastating work of both relentless reporting and empathy.
（“他让时钟继续运转，并向她收取了 70 美元，”德雷尔写道。）《消失的人》被改编成《美国生活》的一集，是一部充满了无情报道和同理心的毁灭性作品。
Michael A.
迈克尔·A.
GonzalesContributor to Catapult, The Paris Review, and Longreads.
冈萨雷斯是《Catapult》、《巴黎评论》和《Longreads》的撰稿人。
## A Preacher, a Scam, and a Massacre in Brooklyn (Sarah Weinman, CrimeReads)
## 布鲁克林的传教士、骗局和大屠杀（莎拉·温曼，CrimeReads）
Fans of vintage New York crime stories will love Sarah Weinman’s brilliant Brooklyn-based tale, a sordid story that only gets worse the more you read.
纽约经典犯罪故事的粉丝一定会喜欢莎拉·温曼 (Sarah Weinman) 精彩的布鲁克林故事，这是一个肮脏的故事，读得越多只会变得更糟。
Weinman takes the reader into the mind and home of a con man named DeVernon LeGrand, a pretend preacher who kept a stable of women who dressed as nuns and begged on the streets.
温曼带领读者走进一个名叫德弗农·勒格朗的骗子的思想和家中，他是一名假传教士，养着一群装扮成修女、在街上乞讨的妇女。
Of course, in true pimp fashion, LeGrand took most of their money.
当然，在真正的皮条客时尚中，勒格朗拿走了他们的大部分钱。
After moving his flock to 222 Brooklyn Avenue in 1966, things get worse for the crooked organization as it eventually becomes involved in kidnapping and murder.
1966 年，他的羊群搬到布鲁克林大道 222 号后，这个不诚实的组织的情况变得更糟，因为它最终卷入了绑架和谋杀。
Although in the early 2000s I lived four blocks away from the scene of LeGrand’s various crimes for thirteen years, I had never heard of him or his house of pain and death until reading Weinman’s wonderfully written piece.
尽管在 2000 年代初期，我在距离勒格朗各种犯罪现场四个街区之外的地方住了十三年，但在阅读温曼精彩的文章之前，我从未听说过他或他的痛苦与死亡之屋。
Jeff MayshContributor to The Atlantic, Smithsonian Magazine, Los Angeles Magazine, and The Daily Beast.
杰夫·梅什是《大西洋月刊》、《史密森尼杂志》、《洛杉矶杂志》和《每日野兽报》的撰稿人。
Author of The Spy with No Name.
《无名间谍》的作者。
## Jerry and Marge Go Large (Jason Fagone, Huffpost Highline)
## 杰瑞和玛吉变大（Jason Fagone，赫芬顿邮报 Highline）
I write about unusual heists from middle-America, so I was game for this Michigan lotto scam story from FOIA-bandit Jason Fagone.
我写的是来自美国中部的不寻常抢劫案，所以我很喜欢《信息自由法》强盗贾森·法戈恩 (Jason Fagone) 写的这个密歇根州乐透骗局故事。
In crime writing it’s the characters who make for a good yarn, and I was all-in on this Mom and Pop who used brain-power to beat the system, and the odds.
在犯罪小说中，人物才是精彩的故事，而我全心全意地支持这位妈妈和爸爸，他们利用脑力来击败系统和可能性。
## The Man Who Captures Criminals for the DEA by Playing Them (Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, The New Yorker)
## 扮演缉毒局抓捕罪犯的人（Yudhijit Bhattacharjee，《纽约客》）
Why actor Spyros Enotiades told his story to Yudhijit Bhattacharjee I don’t know (there must surely be a bounty on his head), but the storytelling was extraordinary.
我不知道演员斯皮罗斯·埃诺蒂亚德斯 (Spyros Enotiades) 为何向尤迪吉特·巴塔查吉 (Yudhijit Bhattacharjee) 讲述他的故事（他的人头肯定有悬赏），但讲故事的方式非同寻常。
Undercover capers don’t get better than this.
卧底雀跃没有比这更好的了。
Jayati VoraManaging editor at The Investigative Fund.
Jayati Vora 调查基金总编辑。
## The Trauma of Everyday Gun Violence in New Orleans (Jimmie Briggs and Andre Lambertson, VICE)
## 新奥尔良日常枪支暴力的创伤（吉米·布里格斯和安德烈·兰伯特森，《VICE》）
This photojournalistic investigation into how gun violence affects black communities explores how living with that violence can cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) just like experience with war can.
这部关于枪支暴力如何影响黑人社区的新闻摄影调查探讨了生活在暴力中如何会导致创伤后应激障碍 (PTSD)，就像战争经历一样。
But unlike with returning veterans, gun violence-plagued communities don’t get the funding or mental health resources to help them cope.
但与归来的退伍军人不同的是，受枪支暴力困扰的社区没有获得资金或心理健康资源来帮助他们应对。
Alissa QuartExecutive Editor of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Alissa Quart经济困难报告项目执行编辑。
Author of five books including Squeezed, Branded, and the poetry book, Monetized.
着有五本书，包括《Squeezed》、《Branded》和诗集《Monetized》。
She writes The Guardian’s Outclassed column.
她撰写《卫报》的“被淘汰”专栏。
## Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney?
## 刑满释放人员可以成为律师吗？
I Intended to Find Out (Reginald Dwayne Betts, The New York Times Magazine)
我想知道（雷金纳德·德维恩·贝茨，《纽约时报》杂志）
This is fantastic longform that embodies what I think social justice reportage should be today.
这是一篇精彩的长篇文章，体现了我认为当今社会正义报告文学应有的样子。
It combines an under-heard, first-person voice with a gripping true story about one of the most crucial issues in America today, incarceration.
它结合了鲜为人知的第一人称声音和扣人心弦的真实故事，讲述了当今美国最重要的问题之一——监禁。
Betts, who is a lawyer and a poet, also gives his tale an unexpected literary feel, with a comprehensive gloss on the sociology behind juvenile crime, prisons, jailhouse lawyers, and the limited social possibilities for ex-felons.
身为律师和诗人的贝茨也给他的故事带来了意想不到的文学感，对青少年犯罪、监狱、监狱律师以及刑满释放人员有限的社会可能性背后的社会学进行了全面的阐释。
## Omnipresence (Ann Neumann, Virginia Quarterly Review)
## 无所不在（Ann Neumann，弗吉尼亚季刊评论）
This multimedia criminal justice story is about how too-bright, all-night lighting in housing projects, and faulty design overall, contributes to a troubling level of surveillance in poorer communities under the guise of fighting crime.
这个多媒体刑事司法故事讲述了住房项目中过于明亮的通宵照明以及整体设计缺陷如何在打击犯罪的幌子下导致贫困社区的监控达到令人不安的程度。
It makes something as basic as sleeping uncomfortable for thousands upon thousands of law-abiding citizens.
它让成千上万守法公民的睡眠等基本问题变得不舒服。
I really like this story’s taxonomic, poetic style, as well as how architectural photographer Elizabeth Felicella gives the story a more formalist visual valence than your typical housing piece.
我真的很喜欢这个故事的分类学、诗意风格，以及建筑摄影师伊丽莎白·费利塞拉如何赋予这个故事比典型的住房作品更形式主义的视觉价值。
Tori TelferAuthor of Lady Killers and host of the Criminal Broads podcast.
托里·特尔弗（Tori Telfer）是《Lady Killers》的作者，也是《Criminal Broads》播客的主持人。
## Blood Cries Out (Sean Patrick Cooper, The Atavist)
## 血的呼喊（肖恩·帕特里克·库珀，返祖者）
In the book Popular Crime by Bill James, the author writes that the phrase “something terrible has happened” is “the best title ever for a crime book…those words turn the ‘crime story’ inside out by exposing the human beings standing on what otherwise appears to be a vast and grisly stage.”
在比尔·詹姆斯的《大众犯罪》一书中，作者写道，“发生了可怕的事情”这句话是“有史以来最好的犯罪小说标题……这些话通过揭露站在一个巨大而可怕的舞台上的人类，彻底颠覆了‘犯罪故事’。”
We’re hardly ten percent of the way into the story in “Blood Cries Out” before someone uses those words to tell her husband that the unthinkable has occurred: there’s been a murder right across the road.
《血泪》的故事还不到百分之十，就有人用这些话告诉她的丈夫，不可思议的事情发生了：马路对面发生了一起谋杀案。
And the vast and grisly stage?
那广阔而恐怖的舞台呢？
Small-town Chillicothe, Missouri, where two men have amicably farmed the same land for years, until one of them wakes up in the middle of the night with a bullet in his face and his wife dead beside him.
密苏里州奇利科西小镇，两个男人多年来友好地耕种着同一块土地，直到其中一个男人在半夜醒来，脸上一颗子弹，他的妻子死在他身边。
The wounded man initially suspects his daughter’s abusive boyfriend, but then changes his story and accuses his farming partner, and then his farming partner’s son, which results in the sort of twisty and utterly corrupt legal process worthy of Making a Murderer part three.
受伤的男人最初怀疑他女儿的男朋友有虐待行为，但后来改变了他的说法，指控了他的农场伙伴，然后指控了他农场伙伴的儿子，这导致了那种曲折且完全腐败的法律程序，值得《制造杀人犯》第三部分。
The piece is full of letters and depositions and secret meetings and a lot of paperwork, but on occasion, it vibrates with poignantly biblical/Americana-esque undertones, from the title (plucked from Genesis) to lines like, “[the victim’s] murder was an attack on a Christian matriarch, a cherished local archetype.
这篇文章充满了信件、证词、秘密会议和大量文书工作，但有时，它会带有令人心酸的圣经/美国式的底蕴，从标题（摘自《创世纪》）到诸如“（受害者的）谋杀是对一位基督教女族长的攻击，这是一个珍贵的当地原型。
Similarly, [the innocent man’s] conviction represented the denial of an eldest son’s right to live and work on his father’s land.”
同样，[无辜者]的定罪代表着对长子在父亲土地上生活和工作的权利的剥夺。”
Sarah WeinmanAuthor of The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World.
莎拉·温曼（Sarah Weinman）是《真正的洛丽塔：莎莉·霍纳的绑架和丑闻世界的小说》的作者。
## The End of Evil (Sarah Marshall, The Believer)
## 邪恶的终结（莎拉·马歇尔，信徒）
I published a book and wrote a lot of my own pieces in 2018 — including one for this site — so, oddly, I didn’t keep as good track of longform reporting produced by others (podcasts, however, that’s a different story, but this is Longreads, not Longlistens).
我在 2018 年出版了一本书，并写了很多自己的文章——包括为这个网站写的一篇——所以，奇怪的是，我没有很好地跟踪其他人制作的长篇报道（播客，然而，这是一个不同的故事，但这是长读，而不是长听）。
But I keep returning to Sarah Marshall’s “The End of Evil” because it makes fresh a story long consigned to easy tropes.
但我不断地回顾莎拉·马歇尔的《邪恶的终结》，因为它让一个长期以来被简单比喻的故事变得新鲜起来。
Marshall, who also co-hosts the stellar podcast You’re Wrong About…
马歇尔还共同主持了著名播客《你错了》……
and is one of my favorite true crime writers, gives voice to the myriad of women and girls Bundy murdered, shows him as something far less than an evil mastermind, and demonstrates why, with particular clarity, “the longer you spend inside this story, the less sense you can find.”
他是我最喜欢的真实犯罪作家之一，他为无数被邦迪谋杀的妇女和女孩发声，把他描绘成远不是一个邪恶的策划者，并特别清楚地说明了为什么“你在这个故事中花费的时间越长，你就越找不到意义。”
Catherine CusickAudience editor, Longreads
凯瑟琳·库西克（Catherine Cusick）长读读者编辑
## Checkpoint Nation (Melissa del Bosque, Texas Observer)
## 检查站国家（Melissa del Bosque，德克萨斯观察家报）
When Americans think of “the border” as a narrow and specific line, we neglect the legal reality that the term actually applies to a border zone, a much larger halo covering up to 100 air miles from any U.S. land or coastal boundary.
当美国人将“边界”视为一条狭窄而具体的线时，我们忽略了法律现实，即该术语实际上适用于边境地区，即一个更大的光环，覆盖距美国任何陆地或沿海边界长达 100 英里的范围。
The zone touches parts of 38 states, covering 10 in their entirety — and within that wide rim, anyone can be subjected to a warrantless search at any time.
该区域涉及 38 个州的部分地区，总共覆盖了 10 个州——在这个广阔的范围内，任何人都可能随时受到未经授权的搜查。
In this signature longform reality check, Melissa del Bosque digs into the history of how Congress vested U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with alarming, far-reaching powers to search and detain even long-term residents who’ve never committed a crime at surprise, “suspicionless” checkpoints.
在这篇标志性的长篇现实调查中，梅丽莎·德尔·博斯克深入探讨了国会如何赋予美国海关和边境保护局 (CBP) 惊人的、影响深远的权力，甚至可以在“毫无嫌疑”的检查站搜查和拘留那些从未犯罪过的长期居民。
## Japan’s Prisons Are a Haven for Elderly Women (Shiho Fukada, Bloomberg Businessweek)
## 日本的监狱是老年妇女的避风港（Shiho Fukada，彭博商业周刊）
In a series of sweet, anonymous snapshots, Shiho Fukada talks to and photographs a growing cohort of Japanese seniors: “otherwise law-abiding elderly women” who have found a solution to the loneliness of aging in the reliable comforts of prison.
在一系列甜蜜的、匿名的快照中，深田志穗与越来越多的日本老年人交谈并拍摄了照片：“原本守法的老年妇女”在可靠舒适的监狱中找到了解决老年孤独的办法。
Almost 1 in 5 women in Japanese prisons is a senior, Fukada reports, and 90 percent of them are arrested for shoplifting.
Fukada 报告称，日本监狱中近五分之一的女性是高年级女性，其中 90% 因入店行窃而被捕。
From the simple things they steal (rice, cold medicine, a frying pan) to the circumstances they’re trying to escape (bedridden or violent spouses, invisibility, loss, and financial strain), the details of this story make structural inadequacies to meet the unmet social and healthcare needs of an aging population all too clear.
从他们偷窃的简单物品（大米、感冒药、煎锅）到他们试图逃离的环境（卧床不起或施暴的配偶、隐形、损失和经济压力），这个故事的细节让结构性缺陷变得显而易见，无法满足老龄化人口未得到满足的社会和医疗保健需求。
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