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...Public attention to the sometimes brutal treatment of African Americans by white police officers has also escalated since Emanuel left office....
...Former CFTC chair Heath Tarbert, who built on Giancarlo’s crypto work, is now chief legal officer at Citadel Securities, where he has lobbied for the CFTC to be the main crypto regulator....
...Other cities are trying different models: my home town of Chicago is piloting the deployment of mental health and paramedic teams, some with police officers....
...Hired to apply psychological principles to the management of police officers, he began by interviewing the regional chief of police’s direct reports....
...The latter, for example, refers to redistributing resources toward other community needs, but some philanthropists raise concerns about fewer police officers, says Patel....
...The driver called the police and, shortly after, two officers entered the bus and arrested Parks. The fuse in Montgomery had been lit....
...What I witnessed was a lot of police officers marching with the crowd. At a certain point in time that crowd turned from a protest to a mob. Police officers were running from them. It blew my mind.”...
...People such as Robert Rubin, a former Goldman Sachs partner, and Harvard scholar Lawrence Summers took the administration in a “neoliberal” direction....
...“He (a police officer) fired with the intention to kill? Of course he f***ing did, the [criminal] was carrying a rifle!”...
...Sam Perry Chicago, IL, US...
...Sir, Your report “Police killings mark tragic end to week of US racial tension” (July 9) mentions that the police killings in Dallas were near the site of John F Kennedy’s assassination in 1963....
...of Chicago Booth School of Business....
...The theory is speculative but Randall tells it with great verve....
...Billie Holiday’s centennial fell on April 7, the same day that the world first saw the video of a white police officer in South Carolina killing an unarmed black man by shooting him in the back....
...“This is just the cherry on top – it proves they don’t give a f*** about us,” he says. “I used to think not all officers were bad. I used to feel safe around some of them – now I can’t trust them.”...
...of the University of Chicago Crime Lab....
...Instances of City Hall’s beneficence abound: police officers who retire on a full pension at 48; firemen who take “Cadillac” healthcare years before retirement....
...f***ing place....
...Two weeks later, he clashed with police officers who blocked his exit from Downing Street and was accused by The Sun of calling them “f****** plebs”. He admits swearing but denies using the word plebs....
...The Conservative party rounded off a chaotic week on Friday with the resignation of Tory chief whip Andrew Mitchell, one month after he was first accused of swearing at a Downing Street police officer....
...Strategy: A History, by Lawrence Freedman, OUP USA, RRP£25/$34.95 The word “strategy” is much used and abused by businessmen, politicians and military men....
...We should follow the example of a police officer named Brian Murphy. When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety....
...They are funny f*****s when they all get together,” he says. Not all relationships between Nato soldiers and their trainers have developed so amicably....
...In 1924, the Leeds-based company enlisted the support of Major F. Forbes-Smith who was on an overland “motor dash” from London to Quetta, a city now in Pakistan....
...– I called the police. The officer who replied said they could only round up stray cats or dogs. “We don’t do parrots,” he said apologetically....
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