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How US cities lost control of police discipline 20 minutes to read By: Kim Barker, Michael H. Keller and Steve Eder In the chaos of 1960s Detroit, a fledgling police union laid the groundwork for a system that, to this day, constrains discipline for officers accused of misconduct. It took Portland, Oregon, almost US$1 million in legal fees, efforts by two mayors and a police chief, and years of battle with the police union to defend the firing of Officer Ron Frashour — only to have to bring him back. Today, the veteran white officer, who shot an unarmed black man in the ba...

Pfizer, Stimulus, Kwanzaa: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. Image Credit...Whitten Sabbatini for The New York Times 1. Pfizer could provide tens of millions of additional coronavirus vaccine doses to the U.S. under a deal that would give it priority access to manufacturing supplies. The deal would help the country begin to address a looming shortage that could leave as many as 110 million adults unvaccinated in the first half of 2021. The agreement comes as virus cases, hospitalizations and deaths soar to new heights in the U.S., Tennessee ha...