“The woman shot was between the ages of 16 and 24 and was shot ‘in the head with a single gunshot.'”
“East Chicago officials knowingly built the elementary school and, later, the public housing complex on a polluted industrial brownfield, then ignored decades of warning signs that people in this predominantly black area of the city were being poisoned.”
Read more: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/on-poisoned-ground-burns
“Guess where the economically forgotten people live? The majority of these ‘ALICE’ households live in America’s largest cities.”
Read more: https://weissratings.com/articles/the-building-backlash-of-america-s-economically-forgotten
“70 years ago, one out of every 20 U.S. jobs required a state license; today, almost 1 in 3 American occupations requires a license.”
“All of that [exculpatory] evidence was withheld by the same prosecutor who is now being hired to handle death penalty cases all over Louisiana.”
“The current generation is getting further away from having enough children to replace itself.”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-births-hit-a-30-year-low-fertility-rates/
“Sessions’s child-removal policy actually extends the callousness of current American penal practices.”
“Police originally tried to blame his death on asthma, but now the Jefferson Parish coroner is telling a very different tale.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/16/four_white_louisiana_narcs
“Both Operation LASER and PredPol are sponsored by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance’s SMART Policing Initiative, which aims to use ‘evidence-based, data-driven’ policing strategies to try and pre-empt and prevent crime.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/11/predictive-policing-surveillance-los-angeles/
“Fontana is the third California desert town now known to have used this firm to prosecute nuisance cases and code violations, then turn around and demand thousands of dollars from citizens months—even years—after they settle.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/01/california-town-hired-private-law-firm-t