Martin Kaste
Martin Kaste is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. He covers law enforcement and privacy. He has been focused on police and use of force since before the 2014 protests in Ferguson, and that coverage led to the creation of NPR's Criminal Justice Collaborative.
In addition to criminal justice reporting, Kaste has contributed to NPR News coverage of major world events, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 uprising in Libya.
Kaste has reported on the government's warrant-less wiretapping practices as well as the data collection and analysis that go on behind the scenes in social media and other new media. His privacy reporting was cited in the U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 United States v. Jones ruling concerning GPS tracking.
Before moving to the West Coast, Kaste spent five years as NPR's reporter in South America. He covered the drug wars in Colombia, the financial meltdown in Argentina, the rise of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, and the fall of Haiti's president Jean Bertrand Aristide. Throughout this assignment, Kaste covered the overthrow of five presidents in five years.
Prior to joining NPR in 2000, Kaste was a political reporter for Minnesota Public Radio in St. Paul for seven years.
Kaste is a graduate of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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The "progressive DA" movement survived the midterms — and attacks by Republican candidates at the state level. But it's having trouble expanding it's appeal beyond liberal enclaves.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is in a close race against challenger Lee Zeldin, a GOP congressman who says criminal justice reforms have caused a crime emergency in the state.
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Democrats are embracing the police during the midterms. But can they distance themselves from crime in Democrat-run cities, such as Philadelphia, Pa.?
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Democrats are embracing the police during the midterms. But can they distance themselves from crime in Democrat-run cities, such as Philadelphia, Pa.?
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Restoring power after a hurricane is a massive job, but crews are running ahead of schedule, even as some residents demand they work faster.
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Hurricane Ian destroyed Fort Myers Beach in Florida, but the city of Fort Myers was damaged, too. In the historically Black neighborhood of Dunbar, people are living without drinkable water and power.
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Flooding cut off I-75 for hours as officials struggle to restore power and water to residents in the path of the storm's destruction. -
Flooding, road closures and power outages are making the path to recovery a bumpy one after Hurricane Ian caused widespread destruction in Florida.
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Days after Category 4 Hurricane Ian came ashore near the tony seaside community, residents are taking stock and trying to put their lives back together. -
Jeff German was known as a thorough and fair investigative reporter, whose killing shocked his colleagues and readers. A Las Vegas-area official was charged for the crime.
