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On May 16, 2010, a 7-year-old Detroit girl named [[Aiyana Jones]] was shot and killed during a "special weapons and tactics" (SWAT) raid that was filmed by ''The First 48'' cameras.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/16/michigan.police.child/ | work=CNN | title=Lawyer questions police version of raid that killed girl | date=May 17, 2010}}</ref> Detroit SWAT unit raided the duplex while searching for a homicide suspect. On October 5, 2011, prosecutors charged the Detroit police officer with the involuntary manslaughter of Jones. Allison Howard, an [[A&E Television Network]] camera operator filming that night, was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice after lying under oath.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the33tv.com/sns-rt-us-shooting-detroit-girltre79405z-20111004,0,5157744.story |title=Nightcap - A Different Kind of News |publisher=The33tv.com |date= |accessdate=November 6, 2013}}</ref> She pleaded no contest to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to two years of probation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/allison-howard-the-first-48-aiyana-stanley-jones-detroit-police-raid_n_3478051.html |title=Allison Howard, 'The First 48' Videographer, Pleads In Fatal Detroit Raid That Killed Aiyana-Stanley Jones |publisher=Huffingtonpost.com |date= June 21, 2013|accessdate=November 6, 2013}}</ref>
On December 16, 2015, Shawn Peterson pled guilty to manslaughter for the triple murder of his ex-girlfriend, Christine George, their son, Leonard George, and her daughter, Trisa George in the [[Gentilly, New Orleans|Gentilly]] neighborhood of [[New Orleans]]. Peterson's defense attorneys argued that producers from The First 48 withheld video evidence that could've exonerated their client. A judge rejected the motion but conceded that the show did complicate the case. In 2016, the city of New Orleans announced that it would be ending its contract with A&E, ending any future productions of episodes of The First 48, or Nightwatch, another A&E show set in New Orleans, in the city.{{cn}}
The show's unprecedented access to police departments has generated some controversy because such access is not typically given to traditional local [[news media]]. Moreover, the show has been criticized for putting witnesses in danger by revealing their faces and their voices on a nationally televised program and for not being sensitive to what might happen to them in the form of retaliation. In response to such criticism, witnesses often ask producers to have their faces blurred out and voices changed or to speak off camera.{{cn}}
==See also==
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