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    Which Is More Scandalous: The Training for Armed Teachers or the Training for Police Officers?

    Which Is More Scandalous: The Training for Armed Teachers or the Training for Police Officers? On average, the minimum requirement for cops is about 650 hours, compared to about 1,300 hours for barbers. 1 August 2022 A recent New York Times story about armed teachers casts doubt on the...
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    Arizona House Committee Approves Bill To Criminalize Filming Cops on the Job

    Arizona House Committee Approves Bill To Criminalize Filming Cops on the Job "You'll have a bunch of people who plead to avoid trial or go broke trying to vindicate their rights." 22 February 2022 The Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Monday green-lit a bill that would criminalize...
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    Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did Slain NYPD Officer Jason Rivera.

    Americans Want Police Reform, Not Abolition. So Did This Slain NYPD Officer. Despite a binary media narrative, the vast majority of the U.S. is in favor of quality, accountable policing. 3 February 2022 "My perspective on police and the way they police really bothered me," wrote Jason Rivera...
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    Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military

    Stop Training Police Like They’re Joining the Military If policing is to change, the spotlight must turn toward police academies, where new recruits are first inculcated into the folkways of their profession. 10 June 2020 When I entered the Washington, D.C., police academy in 2016 as a...
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    Do Minnesota cases show it’s getting easier to convict cops?

    Do Minnesota cases show it’s getting easier to convict cops? 18 January 2022 First, it was Mohamed Noor — convicted for shooting an unarmed woman who approached his police SUV. Then it was Derek Chauvin, found guilty of murder for using his knee to pin George Floyd to a Minneapolis street as...
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    Chicago, Illinois: Officer Jason Van Dyke - murderer of Laquan McDonald - to be released from prison Feb. 3

    Jason Van Dyke to be released from prison Feb. 3 Former Chicago police officer spent more than three years in prison for the 2014 murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. 14 January 2022 Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke will leave prison next month after serving more than three...
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    Arlington, Texas: Cop Bau Tran Was Indicted for Homicide After Shooting Fleeing O’Shae Terry, Still Got Qualified Immunity.

    A Cop Was Indicted for Homicide After Shooting a Fleeing Driver. He Still Got Qualified Immunity. 9 November 2021 Bau Tran, a police officer with the city of Arlington, Texas, is currently facing up to two years in state jail for criminally negligent homicide after killing a motorist who was...
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    The Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects the Legal Theory Underlying a Murder Charge Against Derek Chauvin

    The Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects the Legal Theory Underlying a Murder Charge Against Derek Chauvin 22 October 2021 Derek Chauvin, so cute in orange Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who fatally shot an unarmed 911 caller in 2017, was originally sentenced to more than 12...
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    Washington Post: Dozens of states have tried to end qualified immunity. Police officers and unions helped beat nearly every bill.

    Dozens of states have tried to end qualified immunity. Police officers and unions helped beat nearly every bill. 7 October 2021 In the months after George Floyd’s murder, state legislators across the country tried to undo a legal doctrine that makes it virtually impossible to sue police...
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    100s of Cops Convicted of Child Rape & Murder Still Collect Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Retirement

    100s of Cops Convicted of Child Rape & Murder Still Collect Millions in Taxpayer-Funded Retirement 4 October 2021 Imagine for a moment that your job description involves arresting people for murder and rape. Then imagine that you violate that description by committing murder and rape. Then...
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