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Federal agency cites collaborative investigation by the Reporter, NPR and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University which exposed disparities at prisons across the country.
Immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania constitute less than 1% of terrorism cases in the United States, and none of the cases in the last two years.
A study looked at fines in 93 California cities. Cities with more black residents and more disproportionately white police forces tended to rely the most on fines.
President Donald Trump took aim at the Chicago Police Department as a new report details reform efforts ushered in by an agreement with the ACLU.
Assia Boundaoui is leveraging the FBI’s decades of targeting communities of color to “fill in the blanks” of records she obtained in a federal FOIA battle as depicted in the documentary “The Feeling of Being Watched,” airing Oct. 14 on PBS.
CPD finally complied with The Chicago Reporter’s request for detailed records on police personnel needed to maintain the Settling for Misconduct lawsuits database.
During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. But the immigration law’s “likely to become a public charge” clause kept them out.
Even if wealthy parents don’t resort to the kind of illegal tactics in the recent college cheating scandal revealed by the FBI, the college admission process still favors the rich, scholars argue.
By short-circuiting the conversation, as Rahm Emanuel did, the new mayor risks further polarizing the debate over police reform.
Only two countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.