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Five Black women have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, alleging that officials permitted an “open and notorious police protection racket” to victimize the Black community while detectives committed “regular acts of humiliation and...

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We never want to disparage our law enforcement in East Texas. They do a job that none of us would want to on a daily basis. Having said all that, there will be a bad apple or two that will show up in any police force. Unfortunately, those one or two bad apples will make all officers look bad. Any law enforcement organization...

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A number of American cities have elected prosecutors who promised progressive law enforcement, focusing as much on police accountability as being tough on crime. In St. Louis, that prosecutor was Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who was elected in 2016 following the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in the suburb of Ferguson....

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