More Kids and Overwhelmingly Black: New Records Show Concerning Trends in D.C. Gang Database
The D.C. Council wants answers about the Metropolitan Police Department’s growing, secretive gang database.
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The D.C. Council wants answers about the Metropolitan Police Department’s growing, secretive gang database.
Indigenous residents are fighting to save their island’s heritage, while the military refuses to release key information about what it is razing.
Internal emails and their attachments show that a roving Metropolitan Police Department unit attempted to suppress robberies in 2012 and 2013 by stopping and frisking and surveilling residents of Black neighborhoods.
The Pentagon is increasing its forces on Guam, but Indigenous residents are fighting back.
In 1975, the US military evacuated nearly 112,000 Vietnamese refugees to Guam. Why wasn’t this strategy used now?
The emails reveal how the Metropolitan Police Department’s gang database is connected to other flawed tough-on-crime initiatives.
Some of the same interests that promote business in “opportunity zones” are funding the pro-statehood push in Washington.
It remains unclear what, if anything, Biden has done to stop the Saudi Arabia–led military intervention.
The CHamoru lawyer discusses the militarization of Guam and his new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light.
Quarantine procedures at LA County jails have led likely thousands of people to miss court dates, and with that, opportunities for release.