Governor Kathy Hochul announced a state wide increase in efforts to protect vulnerable communities from hate crime through boosted monitoring on social media and in person and through community outreach by police across the state, including from the state’s counter terrorism unit.
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The state is currently working on a statewide licensing system for police officers that would include files on officer misconduct, but until the tool is finished departments may find it difficult to track down a prospective officer’s disciplinary history.
No arrests have been made since the killings and no suspects have been identified, police confirmed during a Sunday press conference.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg said in a statement that the eight officers connected to the cases vacated Thursday “abused their positions of power,” and have themselves been convicted for charges including perjury and official misconduct.
An investigation found that the culture of the Queensland Police Service acted to discourage or prevent complaints about sexist, misogynistic or racist behavior.
Despite the U.S.’ request for a fast-tracked extradition of Rafael Caro Quintero, considered the “Narco of Narcos,” w a district court judge granted him a temporary suspension a few days after his arrest, arousing suspicions that Mexico has no plans to send him north anytime soon.
Pro-choice groups and some state governments that support abortion rights are mobilizing to help patients obtain the pills in states where they are legal.
A ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court this week determined that Mayor Jacob Frey has so far failed to meet his “clear legal duty” to hire more officers. The city’s former police chief blamed the staffing shortage largely on a wave of officer retirements and disability filings.
Konasheher county’s imprisonment rate is more than 10 times higher than that of the United States and more than 30 times higher than for China as a whole.
Republicans were also the most likely to express skepticism about a woman’s claim of being raped – that it was used as justification to get an abortion.