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Tag Archives: Law Enforcement

How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer

22 November 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Raffi Khatchadourian The New Yorker On Thanksgiving morning, 1987, Rick Bart, a homicide detective in Snohomish County, Washington, got word that a pheasant hunter had discovered a body in […]

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How Big Tech Created a Data ‘Treasure Trove’ for Police

20 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Matt O’Brien & Michael Liedtke Associated Press When U.S. law enforcement officials need to cast a wide net for information, they’re increasingly turning to the vast digital ponds of […]

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LAW

U.S. Army has Hidden or Downplayed Loss of Firearms for Years

24 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta & Justin Pritchard Associated Press The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

21 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Blue Lives Matter and the Permanence of Racism

27 October 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By India Thusi Cornell Law Review Online It was fifteen years after the second millennium, and civil unrest rocked our nation’s cities following the police shootings of several unarmed Black […]

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LAW

Racial Tensions in America’s ‘Sundown Towns’

14 October 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tim Sullivan & Noreen Nasir Associated Press Ask around this time-battered Midwestern town, with its empty storefronts, dusty antique shops and businesses that have migrated toward the interstate, and […]

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LAW

Privacy is Power

21 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Carissa Véliz Aeon Imagine having a master key for your life. A key or password that gives access to the front door to your home, your bedroom, your diary, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Little Cards That Tell Police ‘Let’s Forget This Ever Happened’

4 September 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katie Way Vice Mike, a white man in his 50s, was in a bad spot: He was stuck idling in traffic on New York City’s Riverside Drive, running late […]

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LAW

This City Stopped Sending Police to Every 911 Call

27 July 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Christie Thompson The Marshall Project On a rainy June day, the manager of a Motel 6 outside Olympia decided one guest had to leave. The woman had been smoking […]

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LAW

Arming Icebreakers

31 August 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten RealClearDefense Icebreakers ply polar waters, smashing open sea lanes with their heavily armored bows.  Yet in addition to being equipped to do battle with the elements, should […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

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