Ben Poston is an investigative reporter specializing in data at the Los Angeles Times. A three-time Livingston Award finalist, Poston has won several national awards, including a George Polk Award, a Gerald Loeb Award and Sigma Delta Chi’s award for First Amendment reporting. He worked on “Behind the Badge,” a series that detailed the flawed hiring practices by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. He also co-wrote an investigation that found the Los Angeles Police Department routinely misclassified violent crime data. He joined The Times in 2012. Prior to that, he was the data editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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