Glenn Thrush reports on how the National Republican Congressional Committee is attacking Democrats over President Obama’s comment that Sgt. Joseph Crowley and Cambridge police “acted stupidly” in arresting Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. for breaking into his own home and then complaining about the police showing up to investigate. More…
Buried within the guts of a very good New York Times story about problems with the Afghan security forces is word of this effort at rooting out police corruption:
The United States is also retraining uniformed police units in a process called Focused District Development. Under this program, police
With major gay rights victories in Iowa and Vermont in recent days, the movement seem to be on the upswing in much of the country. Arizona, however, is another story. While Democrats may be eyeing The Grand Canyon state as a historically red state More…
After being unsure how long it would take to train a 400,000-soldier Afghan Army, I started calling around to experts, and in the process it was gingerly pointed out to me that I misread The New York Times’ piece that reported the enlargement of the Afghan security force that More…
Now I get it: after all those reports lately about how local law enforcement is increasingly relying on its powers under the federal 287(g) program to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants who haven’t actually committed crimes, we learn from The Los Angeles Times today that the federal More…
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