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Testimony: DHS agents admit reports falsified

A special agent who replaced a Department of Homeland Investigations-Office of Inspector General supervisor in McAllen testified Monday that he couldn’t believe several agents told him they falsified reports.

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

I didn’t see in the article what information was falsified.

 

However, the article goes on to say:

 

“As part of that process, Green would fill out a file review worksheet and place it with the case file, he testified. The file review worksheet would identify what work had been done on cases and set goals for agents to work toward.

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In March 2012, when Green was set to conduct his second round of file reviews, he discovered that most of the 100 or so cases were missing the worksheets, which had been there during the first review, he testified.”

See on www.brownsvilleherald.com

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There Are 400,000 Unprocessed Rape Kits in the U.S. How Can This Be?

Actress Mariska Hargitay is producing a documentary about America’s rape kit backlog.

 

“Nora Caplan-Bricker of the New Republic notes:

 

After New York City processed its 17,000-kit backlog in 2001, the arrest rate for rape cases jumped from 40 percent to 70 percent, reports Erin Delmore at MSNBC. In Ohio, going through 4,000 kits led to 58 cases, and in Detroit, where an 11,000-kit backlog remains, analyzing the first 10 percent of kits led law enforcement to 46 serial rapists.”

See on www.slate.com

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I, too, am Oxford.

 

“Our project was inspired by the recent ‘I, too, am Harvard’ initiative. The Harvard project resonated with a sense of communal disaffection that students of colour at Oxford have with the University. The sharing of the Buzzfeed article ‘I, too, am Harvard’ on the online Oxford based race forum, ‘Skin Deep’ led to students quickly self organising a photoshoot within the same week. A message that was consistently reaffirmed throughout the day was that students in their daily encounters at Oxford are made to feel different and Othered from the Oxford community.Hopefully this project will demonstrate that despite there being a greater number of students of colour studying at Oxford now than there has ever been before, there are still issues that need to be discussed. In participating in ‘I, Too, Am Oxford,’ students of colour are demanding that a discussion on race be taken seriously and that real institutional change occur.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

An Oxford Tumblr with quotes of microaggressions and negative assumptions.

See on itooamoxford.tumblr.com

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Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison

  This post is broken into two parts for the sake of length: Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 1 – An improper comparison Anti-Asian Bias in College Admissions?: Part 2 – In support…

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

My question is, how can we get more students to go to college?

 

What do we as a culture (U.S. culture) need to provide to our children so they can attend college?

See on reappropriate.co

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The Triple Package Review: Debunking Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld | Prerna Lal

 

“In their newly released book, The Triple Package, Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld propose that some groups are naturally better than the others due to certain cultural traits they possess. I was on HuffPost Live to discuss the book, and to debunk its central notions, which you can watch here:”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

Prerna Lal’s article covers:

 

  1. Amazed about the publicity and attention that this book is receiving because it is saying nothing new
  2. The Triple Package is ahistorical
  3. Perpetuates the model minority myth, which then justifies anti-black racism
  4. Dangerously suggests that we have moved beyond racism, which is simply not true

See on prernalal.com