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Many D.C. councilmembers have serious doubts about the effectiveness of drug-free zones. But a crime bill is set to include the policy anyway.

‘Resurrecting the 2020 rhetoric and talking points of anti-cop activists is not going to work,’ D.C.'s police union is firing back at the anti-cop groups…

The legislation dubbed 'Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024' proposed by Councilmember Brooke Pinto.

 

The US set another disturbing record for police-related murders last year, which has been climbing, per a report from Mapping Police Violence.

More than 1,300 people died at the hands of police in 2023, the most since the Mapping Police Violence project […] The post Black people are 2.9 times more likely than white people to be killed by cops, report says appeared first on TheGrio.

Police across America killed a record 1,329 people in 2023, and Black people were more likely to be slain than whites, a new report shows.

The number of people killed by police officers in the United States reached a new high in 2023, according to new research. The Mapping Police Violence project, which has been tracking police killings in the country since 2013, reported that officers killed 1,329 people last year, representing nearly a 19-percent increase over the 11-year span. The…

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Dexter Wade received a dignified funeral and burial Monday in Mississippi's capital city, months after he was hit and killed by a police SUV and officials first buried his body in a pauper's grave without notifying his family that he was dead.

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