Simone Weichselbaum
Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Simone Weichselbaum is a national investigative reporter for NBC News, focusing on local and federal law enforcement issues. She previously was a police reporter for The Marshall Project, the New York Daily News and the Philadelphia Daily News. She holds a graduate degree in criminology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Latest from Simone Weichselbaum
Federal watchdog to examine DOJ law enforcement task forces after NBC News report
Congress' investigative arm is launching a review of how the DOJ oversees its task forces, which often include local police officers, after an NBC News report.
Who's behind the pro-Palestinian protests that are disrupting Biden's campaign events and blocking city streets?
Who's behind the pro-Palestinian protests that are disrupting Biden's campaign events and blocking city streets?
Federal law enforcement agencies release little use-of-force data. NBC News documented five years of their shootings.
NBC News found that from 2018 to 2022, officers working for or with the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Marshals were involved in more than 200 shootings.
A family confronts a ‘Constitution-free zone’ in their fight to hold the DEA accountable for their son’s death
Those who have lost loved ones in shootings involving federal officers have little recourse in the nation’s courts, but Caleb Slay’s family is trying anyway.
Fani Willis' other fight
Fani Willis, district attorney in the Georgia county that charged Trump for his actions after the 2020 election, is fighting to hold federal officers accountable.
Defying presidents and Congress, the ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals shroud their shootings in secrecy
The ATF, DEA, FBI and U.S. Marshals have been slow to adopt reforms embraced by big city police departments, like body cameras and detailed use-of-force data.
Trump-era antisemitism policy expected to fuel flood of student lawsuits against universities
A little-known executive order issued by Donald Trump is expected to fuel a flood of lawsuits from students who say their schools are failing to protect them from antisemitic or anti-Israel conduct.
U.S. Marshals Service publishes limited first report on shootings
Officers with the United States Marshals Service were involved in nearly 150 shootings between 2019 and 2021, according to the agency’s first shooting report.
‘Not safe anywhere now’: American Jews are flocking to gun training classes
The deadly terrorist attack in Israel has forced many American Jews to reconsider their long held stances against owning or using guns.
Some Israelis who want to flee to the U.S. ask why new visa-free travel system won't start until Nov. 30
Some Israelis who want to flee to the U.S. are struggling to get visas because a new visa-free travel system for the U.S. and Israel won't start till Nov. 30.
California’s prison-to-homelessness pipeline
Thousands of former inmates are adding to a growing homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, an NBC News investigation found.
