Tag: Policing
The Indefensible Job of Policing the Border
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December 26, 2023
Against the Wall, a former border officer’s memoir, argues that when it comes to protecting the border, cruelty is the point.
A US border patrol agent on patrol near La Joya, Tex., 2013.
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In the summer of 2021, I sat in on a presentation given by two members of the US Border Patrol’s Missing Migrants Program—a small initiative of the
Nips, tucks and paperwork – POLITICO
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STRASBOURG — The European Parliament’s response to Qatargate: Fight corruption with paperwork.
When Belgian police made sweeping arrests and recovered €1.5 million from Parliament members in a cash-for-influence probe last December, it sparked mass clamoring for a deep clean of the institution, which has long languished with lax ethics and transparency rules, and even weaker enforcement.
Seven months later, the Parliament and its president, Roberta Metsola, can certainly claim
Predatory Policing Has Become a National Crisis
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Public Outrage Hasn’t Improved Policing
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Question of the Week
What is the best way forward for Americans who want to improve policing and the criminal-justice system?
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Conversations of Note
Earlier this month, a Black
1990s Policing: Overrated or Underrated?
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Question of the Week
On Tuesday, Joe Biden declared that, “when it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police. It’s fund the police.” He was speaking in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. “I know we expect
How Romania flouts EU ban on bee-killing insecticides – POLITICO
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Nearly a decade after the European Union first restricted the use of seeds coated with bee-killing insecticides, Romania’s honeybees are still feeling the sting.
In one of the EU’s honey-production capitals, the government has been relying on the banned seeds to prop up its lucrative cash crop exports, something NGOs and beekeepers denounce as an egregious and routine violation of EU laws that is endangering one of the country’s most ancient trades and
How China Is Policing the Future
The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners and subway ceilings, in hotel lobbies and apartment buildings. Their phones are tracked, their purchases are monitored, and their online chats are censored.
Now, even their future is under surveillance.
The latest generation of technology digs through the vast amounts of data collected on their daily activities to find patterns and aberrations, promising to predict crimes
Präs. Biden, VP Harris lobt die Bürgermeisterkandidatin von LA, Karen. Bass for Leadership zum George Floyd Policing Act
*Auf der zweiter Jahrestag der Ermordung von George Floyd, Präsident Joe Biden unterzeichnete eine Exekutivverordnung, die von der im Kongress eingeführten Gesetzgebung zur Polizeireform mit dem Namen The inspiriert wurde George Floyd Justice im Polizeigesetz. Abgeordnete Karen Bass (D-CA-37), der für das Amt des Bürgermeisters von Los Angeles kandidiert, stellte die Gesetzgebung vor, die im Repräsentantenhaus verabschiedet wurde, aber im Senat ins Stocken geraten ist.
How to watch the UK’s local elections like a pro – POLITICO
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LONDON — Britain heads to the polls Thursday in local elections that could be career-ending for Boris Johnson.
With a row over lockdown-breaching parties in government offices engulfing his administration over the last few months, Conservative MPs have privately pinned the prime minister’s future on the results of the local votes.
That — combined with a looming by-election and the prospect of more police fines for breaking coronavirus rules in the Partygate saga
Leftist Language Policing Won’t Fix Health Disparities
Last week, during a White House press briefing on COVID-19, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged Americans to get jabs for their kids. “We know that vaccination helps to decrease community transmission,” she said, “and protect those who are most vulnerable.”
Her message was succinct, accurate, and easy to understand. But it was at odds with new guidance from the American Medical Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges. In a document called Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to