This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. From their living room on Saratoga Avenue, on Detroit’s east side, Deborah Taul and her husband have spent countless days listening, waiting to hear if the gunshots are close enough to worry about. […]
Josiah Bates for The Trace
Josiah is The Trace's staff writer covering the Great Lakes region. He previously worked as an enterprise reporter at TheGrio and was a staff writer for TIME Magazine, and has written extensively about policing, gun violence, and other criminal justice topics across the country. His first book, In These Streets: Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence, was published in May 2024. He's a graduate of Penn State University and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.
