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The Ohio State University study says that the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the rise of fentanyl, may have worsened the crisis for younger people.
More than half the country’s large law enforcement agencies require officers to intervene if they see a colleague committing an unlawful act. But these requirements only work if there are clear penalties for not doing so, says the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University..
A program launched amid rising violence seeks to provide counseling on front porches and in pizza joints, instead of trying to draw residents into a clinical setting.
An average of 1,325 stolen checks, collectively worth roughly $11.6 million, were up for sale every week on the darknet during October, 2021. Cutbacks in the postal service have made the mails more vulnerable, says a Georgia State University study.
The most troubling would ban all necessary gender-affirming health care for young people and threaten to remove trans children from gender-affirming homes or charge people with child abuse.
Participants are paid $150 to discuss a range of topics, including their experiences with violence and the police, and the gap between what they learn in school and the basics of adulthood.
The deputy commissioner of the Department of Corrections described “a very sexually charged environment” in which inmates would masturbate in front of female staff before the ban..
The suit claims that people are put on the watch list when they “publicly criticize” Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) or “when they request information that has the potential to embarrass MPD or its officers.”
Minneapolis police have released body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Amir Locke by a SWAT team executing a no-knock warrant that raises questions about the initial account of the incident from interim police chief Amelia Huffman.
A bipartisan group of House members is seeking an accounting of Amazon’s sales of a food preservative linked to more than 50 suicides in the past two years. The preservatives contain a fatal chemical compound and are touted by a so-called “suicide website” which is also attracting scrutiny.
The victim, who worked informally as a waiter serving beach-goers, sustained fatal chest injuries after being knocked to the ground and battered dozens of times with pieces of wood and fists.
The FBI has identified as many as six juveniles in connection with the recent wave of bomb threats to 16 historically Black colleges and universities. They are investigating the threats as hate crimes.
State and local agencies, as well as auditors and inspectors general, lack the staff or resources to oversee the flood of money and prevent widespread fraud, critics say.
The bill seeks to address the fact that a majority of school shootings were committed with weapons that came from the shooter’s own home.
Laurence F. Doud III, the former chief executive officer of Rochester Drug Co-operative, is the first pharmaceutical executive in the U.S. to be charged with diverting painkillers for profit.
Moyers was honored as TCR’s 2018 “Justice Media Trailblazer.” Watch the video of his remarks at the Feb 15, 2018 John Jay College dinner here.