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Tidbits-Feb 5- Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump “Prison Camps” ARE Concentration Camps; What Mark Carney Gets Wrong About End of the ‘Rules-Based Order’; Body Cameras Are Hands-Free Killing Tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders

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Reader Comments: May Day General Strike; Trump’s New “Prison Camp” ARE Concentration Camps; What Mark Carney gets wrong about end of the ‘rules-based order’; Body cameras are a hands-free killing tool for ICE; Two Soldiers Who Refused Orders; more..

Surprise! Police Reforms Didn’t Work

Sonali Kolhatkar Independent Media Institute
To the surprise of no one but naive liberal backers of the police, expensive reforms to law enforcement have done nothing to curb the killings.

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras

Eric Umansky, with additional reporting by Umar Farooq Propublica, co-published with The New York Times Magazine
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill.
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