Kari Plog
Kari Plog is a former KNKX reporter who covered the people and systems in Pierce, Thurston and Kitsap counties, with an emphasis on police accountability. She was part of the team that reported and produced The Walk Home podcast.
Before transitioning to public radio in 2018, Kari worked as a print journalist at The News Tribune in Tacoma, where she covered communities and local government.
Kari also worked for several years as a college newspaper adviser at the University of Puget Sound, and she’s a strong advocate for media education. She currently serves on the board at Tacoma’s arthouse theater, The Grand Cinema.
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Washington's new Office of Independent Investigations, the first of its kind in the U.S., is still working to hire enough staff to start reviewing police use-of-force cases across the state. But in the meantime, a new hotline allows law enforcement agencies to report cases while the agency determines which cases will be investigated.
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Pierce County’s most powerful law enforcement officer, Sheriff Ed Troyer, has been acquitted of criminal charges of false reporting. His trial offers a preview of what’s to come.
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An instance from Officer Timothy Rankine's past brings new context to the events of the night Manny Ellis was killed.
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A jury acquitted Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer on false-reporting charges related to his confrontation last year with a Black newspaper carrier. KNKX South Sound reporter Kari Plog joins KNKX All Things Considered host Emil Moffatt to explain what the verdict means and why this case drew so much attention.
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Attorneys questioned their first witnesses in the criminal trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.
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Jury selection began Monday in the criminal trial of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer. He is charged with false reporting and making a false or misleading statement to a public servant.
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Episode 7 of The Walk Home podcast is about a law enforcement official who has been part of the Manny Ellis case since the start: Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer. He was quoted in the first stories about Ellis' death, which helped shape a narrative that's now being questioned by the State Attorney General's Office.
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A community grapples with the fallout from Manny's case — and the movement that surrounds it.
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The Tacoma Police Department has started emphasizing cold cases — homicides that no longer have any leads — in hopes of drumming up new information to solve them.