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The Environmental Protection Agency plans to ramp up inspections and civil enforcement in communities where there are violations of clean air and other rules to increase policy compliance and advance the environmental justice agenda.
Attacks on the online infrastructure of websites associated with far-right extremist groups and extremist-friendly platforms and hosts by so-called “ethical hackers,” or “hactivists” are disrupting far-right groups and individuals.
Retailers believe that a federal law would reduce the incentive to commit the kinds of large-scale retail thefts that continued over Thanksgiving and cost stores millions of dollars.
As use of Los Angeles public transit has rebounded from pandemic lows, reports of homicides, rapes, and aggravated assaults on operators have followed suit. LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says the new Metro Public Safety ‘Committee has mishandled the situation.
The Louisiana immigration detention system has become a robust business for private service providers, with the entities managing the facilities being paid as much as three times what the state previously paid per inmate.
Law enforcement agencies have had to step up recruiting and offer incentives competitive with those offered by other employers.
Kim Potter, who resigned two days after the shooting of Daunte Wright, says she made an innocent mistake when she reached for her pistol instead of her Taser.
“This is a very heinous act, a very cowardly act, a very brazen act in broad daylight not to mention on a holiday weekend where people are supposed to be enjoying themselves,” said Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.
The use of the RICO law to go specifically after gun violence has ramped up under U.S. Attorney John Lausch, who took office in 2017.
A jury has convicted three men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, rejecting claims that they acted in self-defense. Arbery’s father, Marcus Arbery Sr., was seen crying and hugging supporters outside the courtroom after the verdict.“He didn’t do nothing,” the father said of his son, “but run and dream.”