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By Benji Hart Recently, the Chicago Police Department released a video on its Facebook page entitled “You Are Not Alone!” intending to raise awareness about the high suicide rate among its officers—which the video cites as being nearly 60% higher than the national average. The video depicts a uniformed officer reaching slowly for their own […]

Police officers in Cleveland, OH are upset about some Cleveland Browns players’ decision to protest the National Anthem at a recent preseason game. To respond, they’ve decided to not appear at the stadium with the U.S. flag as a form of counter protest before the team’s first game on Sept. 10.

It seems like every few weeks another white woman writes an article about how women apologize too much. The reasons given are either that women have “a lower threshold for what constitutes offensive behavior,” or that women apologizing is “a Trojan horse for genuine annoyance, a tactic left over from centuries of having to couch […]

Harvey made landfall on Friday in the form of a category 4 hurricane. However, the days following it were just as chaotic as tropical storms have resulted in flooding following as much as 50 inches of rainfall in certain areas. 

Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart news, is now also the former chief strategist of the Trump administration. 

Amazon’s world takeover continues to move forward as the company recently bid to acquire Whole Foods and continues its plans to use drones for deliveries. With this kind of advancement, it’s not surprising to learn the corporation is looking to get more property. However, complaints have arisen about where it’s chosen to develop one of […]

One of the reasons that the United States has such a disproportionately high prison population is that a lot of people just can’t afford to avoid jail once they are accused of a crime. Although it’s law in most states that judges should set bond that defendants can actually afford, this isn’t often the case. Cook […]

A Boston police officer will be suspended without pay for six months because he made a racially charged video that included the tagline “This summer, black people have met their match.” Officer Joseph DeAngelo Jr. has been a part of the force for four years and will also be on probation for six months after he […]

How can public citizens get a glimpse of White House decision-making and policy without a free press? Short answer: they can’t. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee-Sanders have only held 5 daily briefings (out of 15) on camera in the month of June. This is an apparent effort to […]

Rep. Steve Scalise and three others were shot early this morning in Virginia in what is being reported as a “deliberate attack.” The gunman opened fire during practice for an annual congressional baseball game. 

Dallas Independent School District (DISD) Police are being criticized after a mother accused them of using excessive force to restrain her son. 

The Washington Metropolitan Police Department has made a regular practice out of posting information on missing children in the D.C. area daily. While the faces of dozens of missing Black and Latina girls filled the Twitter feed, people started to notice the horrifying pattern.