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Justice Department Issues Scathing Report On Baltimore Police Department
The Baltimore Police Department has disproportionately targeted African-Americans for stops and arrests, a Justice Department investigation has found. After the police department took a “zero tolerance” approach to policing in the early 2000s, the report finds, it began engaging in a pattern and practice of discriminatory policing. Statistics analyzed in the scathing 163-page report show…
This Year’s Perseid Meteor Shower Is Going To Be Quite A Show — Here’s How To Watch
Stargazers, get ready for something spectacular on Thursday. The annual Perseid meteor shower, already one of the most reliably impressive celestial events, promises to be especially good this year.
Partnership will Evaluate Effect of Trauma on Kansas City Community
With legs bent like sprinters in starting blocks, arms thrust forward and necks twisted toward the fluorescent lights of the Kansas City Missouri Police Academy, a group of first responders was focusing on breathing and forgetting about work. In the world of emergency response, people are beginning to realize that victims and their families are…
The Best Schools In The World Do This. Why Don’t We?
A group of lawmakers and staff with the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures spent a year and a half studying the best school systems in the world. Here’s what they learned.
New FDA Ruling on E-Cigs has Business Owners Worried
Standing behind the counter of a Midtown Kansas City vape shop, Billy Angus pondered the gravity of a new directive from Washington, D.C., aimed at an increasingly popular alternative to cigarettes: “It’s going to cause most of the industry to go out of business,” said Angus, manager of 816 Vapor, which sits along 39th Street….