Jill Castellano
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Jill Castellano
@jillcastellano.bsky.social
Data Journalist for The Marshall Project, writing about crime stats and perceptions of public safety. Drop me a line at [email protected].
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April 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
What drives our beliefs around crime and personal safety? Increasingly, the answer is politics. My latest for @themarshallproject.org
Want to Know if Someone Is Worried About Crime? First Ask How They Voted.
The sitting president can be a better predictor of how safe someone feels than what the crime data shows.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Nice resource from The Open Notebook for anyone dipping their toes into crime and public safety journalism. @theopennotebook.bsky.social
Bringing Scientific Evidence into Any Beat: Crime and Public Safety - The Open Notebook
Daniel von Appen/Unsplash Just as police reports and witness accounts provide crucial information and context in stories about crime and public safety, scientific evidence similarly strengthens report...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
ICE agents continued raiding, arresting and deporting during the 43-day shutdown, but officials stopped publishing data on their operations. This data gives us the best info we have on what ICE is up to, where, and who is being caught in the dragnet.
ICE Raids Kept On During the Shutdown, But the Detention Data Stayed Hidden
More than seven weeks have passed since the last comprehensive release of detention and deportation numbers.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Reposted by Jill Castellano
Reposted by Jill Castellano
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Jill Castellano
Past Marshall Project reporting has found that, in the aggregate, the cost of police misconduct settlements can reach into the billions.

But recently, two cities have embraced a legal maneuver that, if widely adopted, could limit how much victims actually recover from these settlements.
Who Pays for Police Misconduct? These Cities Say Officers, Not Taxpayers
Denver, Minneapolis and other cities want to avoid paying large sums owed to victims of some types of misconduct. But will the officers pay up?
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November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Crawled out of my hole to join BlueSky. Learn more about my journalism here: www.themarshallproject.org/staff/jill-c...
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Stories by Jill Castellano, Data Reporter at The Marshall Project.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM