Day 120: The Policeman Who Killed Jacob Riis’s Dog, on Substack

Jacob Riis’s photo of lodgers sleeping at a Bayard Street tenement. The History Collection/alamy.com

As an animal lover, this story has always eaten away at me a little. This week, as I read about the thousands of people sleeping at police stations in major cities like Chicago, I couldn’t help going back to this story about the policeman who killed Jacob Riis’s dog,

From How We Got Here, on Substack.