Josiah Bates a journalist, author and journalism professor. He's a reporter at The Trace, where he covers gun violence across the Great Lakes region. His reporting focuses on policing, prevention, and the systems that shape violence in American cities, which has won him multiple New York Press Club awards, and a finalist nod for the Deadline Club award for Magazine Investigative Reporting. Bates is the author of In These Streets: Reporting from the Front Lines of Inner-City Gun Violence. He is a Brownsville native now based in Michigan.