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Jeff McCutchen, police chief in Oxford, Miss., is working with area scrapyards to engrave identifying marks on catalytic converters in an effort he claims is “taking money out of the criminals’ hands” as they swipe them to cash in on the precious metals inside. Ben Crump, a civil-rights attorney representing two Houston women who lost family members in crashes involving police officers, suggested during a news conference that several recent deadly accidents were examples of police policies that endanger communities of color as vehicle pursuits don’t tend to occur in more affluent neigh...