If you read the headlines about Chicago’s bloody Easter weekend, you might be surprised to learn that the city’s homicide rate is still trending downward.
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crime reporting
U.N. Human Rights Committee Scrutinizes Border Patrol Use of Force
“U.S. Southern Border Region – The Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) applauds the U.N. Human Rights Committee’s demand for improved reporting and effective investigations of excessive use-of-force cases by U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the U.S.-Mexico border as part of a review of the United States human rights obligations under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).”
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U.S. Mulls Over Putting Cameras On Border Patrol Agents
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson is prepared to consider the proposal to place cameras on all Border Patrol agents with the aim of preventing or elucidating violent incidents, an activist with the Southern Border Communities Coalition said Tuesday.
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Why crime statistics cannot be trusted – in two charts
AKA: Racism is not dead – in two charts: Black Americans use marijuana a bit more than Whites: Yet are way more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession: Also notice that the rise in arrest r…
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LGBT victims of domestic abuse are rarely catered for – or acknowledged
Ally Fogg: While activists for heterosexual victims of domestic violence have ensured measures such as Clare’s law, LGBT people have fallen through the cracks
Community Village‘s insight:
This article is from the UK, but makes a good point about overlooked communities.
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The white racist guide to reporting crime trends
With all the news stories in America about knockout games in November 2013, we got to see some prime examples of how White Americans report a crime trend. CNN, NBC, ABC and Fox News put the racist …
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