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US Attorney General Eric Holder is asking a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities.
Mr. Holder the program will be funded by a $4.75 million grant that will be usedto study racial profiling in police arrests in five US cities over the course of three years.
These cities, which have yet to be identified, will serve as a testing ground for improving relations between police and citizens in communities across the country, he sais.
The program, titled the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, is being implemented following the rioting and civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo., last month that stemmed from the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, which launched a national conversation on race and the use of force in law enforcement.
"The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved," Mr. Holder said.
The program will be headed by law-enforcement experts from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, along with Yale Law School, the Center for Policing Equity at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Urban Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.
Holder, who traveled to Ferguson during peak periods of unrest, says the program will attempt to gain the pulse of the five cities where the program is being rolled out. The goal, he says, is to foster a sense of community between police and the citizens they're charged with protecting. To that end, researchers will analyze data, interview community residents, and train officers in the hopes of improving "pockets of distrust that show up between law enforcement and the communities that they serve."
"What I saw in Ferguson confirmed for me that the need for such an effort was pretty clear," Holder said.
The events in Ferguson also highlighted the racial discrepancies that exist between the Ferguson police force, primarily white, and Ferguson residents, around 70 percent black.
A 2013 report by the Missouri attorney general's office found that police in Ferguson detained and arrested black drivers almost twice as often as they did white drivers, even though they were less likely to find contraband in vehicles driven by black drivers.
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Kansas Court: Remove Democrat From Senate Ballot
Kansas must remove the name of the Democratic candidate against Republican Sen. Pat Roberts from the ballot, the state Supreme Court declared Thursday, in a ...
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Democrat Multiculturalism at Work - Vote Them All Out!
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Kansas will send voters living overseas a ballot for the November election with no Democratic candidate for a U.S. Senate race that has unexpectedly become one of the most hotly-contested in the nation.
But Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Friday he is not abandoning efforts to get Democrats to name a replacement candidate for Chad Taylor. The Democrat dropped out of the race earlier this month, giving independent Greg Orman a better shot at defeating three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts.
Republicans are in the odd position of pushing Democrats to have a candidate. Many Democrats don't want a nominee because they see Orman as the strongest rival to Roberts and don't want to split the anti-Roberts vote. The state Supreme Court stepped in once and is being asked to do so again.
The race in Kansas vaulted to the top tier in the national fight over control of the Senate after Roberts emerged vulnerable from a nasty primary in August. Kansas is a Republican-leaning state, but Orman, a 45-year-old Olathe businessman, is leading or close behind the 78-year-old Roberts in some recent opinion polls.
Even as Kobach directed counties to mail out overseas ballots by Saturday, he continued to argue that state law requires Democrats to pick a new candidate. The law says when a candidate vacancy occurs, it "shall" be filled by a party committee.
"Nothing has changed," said Kobach, a conservative Republican who is supporting Roberts.
The dispute over the Kansas ballot erupted earlier this month when Taylor stopped campaigning and sent a letter to Kobach's office to withdraw. Kobach said the letter wasn't detailed enough to comply with state law, but the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that it was sufficient and ordered Taylor's name removed.
Pedro Irigonegaray, a Topeka attorney who represented Taylor, said the law Kobach cites in pushing Democrats to name a replacement does not require every vacancy to be filled.
"I believe that what Mr. Kobach is saying is a perversion of the statute," Irigonegary said. "How can a secretary of state compel a candidate to run? That's ludicrous."
That issue is before the Supreme Court because of a petition filed by a Democratic voter from Kansas City asking the justices to force Democrats to pick a new candidate. The petition was filed minutes after Thursday's Supreme Court ruling, and the voter's son works for GOP Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign.
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