Hasta La Gadget!

This article is the first in a six-part series about the drug war and police reform.

OGDEN, UTAH — It’s late summer, and the house at 3268 Jackson Avenue has been boarded up for months. The front door, riddled with bullet holes, is pasted over with police tape and a “No Trespassing” sign. As Erna Stewart pries open the door, shards of glass from the edges of its already shattered window fall to the ground.

The air inside is stale and hard to breathe. Belongings are strewn about. There’s a dusty television, an answering machine, a computer printer still in its box, some video games stacked on bookshelves. The police have ripped up sections of floor that had been soaked with blood, leaving a scar in the bathroom and another in the kitchen.

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