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Tag Archives: Police

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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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

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

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

Fifteen Years After 9/11, is America Safer?

9 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Steven Brill The Atlantic This is the story of the first 15 years of how we have dealt with newfound fear—how we have confronted, sometimes heroically and sometimes irrationally, […]

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LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Predicting Future Crime

4 February 2016by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Maurice Chammah The Marshall Project Predicting crime has always been part of police work; any beat cop can tell you that a particularly dark street corner is vulnerable to […]

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LAW

Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?

27 August 2015by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]

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LAW

Police and Body Cameras: Now What?

11 February 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Clare Sestanovich The Marshall Project In the wake of the Michael Brown shooting last summer, broad (and rare) consensus emerged in support of a tangible reform to policing practices: […]

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LAW

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