The Langmarine is an investigative publication. It exists to record — with sources, with receipts, and without the spin that usually accompanies stories about policing — what actually happens between officers and the public they are sworn to serve.
This is the written companion to the investigative work already underway on the John Lang YouTube channel. Where video can show, the page can cite. Where footage captures moments, the article indexes the documents behind them: incident reports, dispatch audio, personnel files, public-records responses, court filings, training logs. Everything the video references lives here, on the record, with direct links where they can be provided.
What this publication is
A ledger of investigations. Each entry is numbered, dated, and (where applicable) located. Each entry has a standfirst that tells you what it is before you commit to reading it. Each entry ends with its sources, plainly listed. If we mention a document, you will find it in the index below the article.
This is not a news site. We do not publish daily. We do not chase breaking stories. We publish when we have finished the reporting, reviewed the documents, and confirmed the record.
What this publication is not
It is not a promotional extension of the video channel. Articles are written to stand on their own, for readers who may never watch the corresponding video. The video coverage is linked at the end of each entry for readers who want it. That is the extent of the crossover.
It is not a hot-take outlet. If an investigation takes eleven months because a state agency has reclassified the same document three times, we will take eleven months. The entry will be dated the day it is published, and the timeline of our records requests will be part of the record.
If you have information relevant to an ongoing investigation, or a story we have not yet begun, the tip line is the way to reach us. Video files up to 5 GB can be uploaded directly. Anonymity is not required — most of what we work with is already public — but it is available if you want it.
The masthead page details who is behind this publication and how editorial decisions are made. The editorial standards page details the rules we publish by.
Welcome to the record.