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With legal technology vendors consolidating left and right, disparate products are being brought together under a single umbrella like never before. Instead of accessing four different products through four different vendors to tackle four different problems, customers are now able to buy a single integrated...
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Half a block behind Manhattan’s federal courthouse sits a detention center that has been condemned by a United Nations human rights expert for exposing its inmates to conditions akin to torture, reports Gothamist. While reports of the horrendous conditions on Rikers Island helped convince Mayor...
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A common element among attacks by armed gunmen opening fire in public places lies with the shooters, who are frequently motivated by grievances in their lives, wielding guns they obtained legally and targeting specific victims when they open fire, says an FBI study reported by...
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NBA guard Sterling Brown sued Milwaukee’s police department in federal court Tuesday, claiming he was arrested and Tasered because he’s black, in an incident that was captured on video, reports Courthouse News. Brown, a Milwaukee Bucks rookie, seeks punitive damages from the city and eight...
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Taxpayers have paid more than $1.5 billion in four years to private companies operating immigrant youth shelters accused of serious lapses in care, including neglect and sexual and physical abuse, Reveal reports. In nearly all cases, the federal government has continued to place migrant children...
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The cost of police misconduct is increasingly sending cities around the country into debt, generating a burden for taxpayers but profits for investors, according to one advocacy group.
The Action Center on Race & the Economy (ACRE) released a report on Tuesday alleging that “police brutality...