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NEW: Just before a wave of killings turned Baltimore into the nation's deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: Officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime.
usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
We looked at millions of police dispatch records to measure how many encounters Baltimore officers initiated on their own, as opposed to responding to calls for help. Starting after Freddie Gray's death, police reported seeing fewer fugitives. They made fewer stops.
We asked Baltimore's acting police commissioner what's going on. His answer: "In all candor, officers are not as aggressive as they once were, pre-2015. It's just that fact."
The slowdown came in the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death, a particularly troubled epoch for Baltimore's police force.
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There's now a not-quite-so-secret D.C. Cir. opinion in the mystery Mueller grand jury case.
Whoever the mystery company is, it's been ordered to pay $50,000 a day in fines until it complies with the grand jury subpoena. But the accrual is stayed while appeals are pending.
Whatever the mystery company is, it's conducting "general commercial activity in the U.S."
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Lawyers for one of the Russian companies charged over election meddling continue to file peevish things in court, this time about how unhappy the judge seemed to be about previous peevish filings ->
The lawyers say they've been getting threats ever since the judge faulted them for unprofessional behavior. Some were "whipped into their frenzy by a cable television entertainer unknown to undersigned counsel named Rachel @Maddow."
Here's the filing -> documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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Paul Manafort's lawyers acknowledge that he failed to tell investigators about some conversations with Konstantin Kilimnik, who the FBI has linked to Russian intelligence. His lawyers said they "happened during a period when Mr. Manafort was managing a U.S. presidential campaign"
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NEW: DOJ report finds Hampton Roads Regional Jail, one of the nation’s deadliest jails, violated detainees’ constitutional rights and federal law. huffp.st/2TaGAES
DOJ evidently hasn’t completely killed "pattern or practice” civil rights cases. This one began in Dec. 2016. huffp.st/2TaGAES
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NEW: Hennepin County is one of the most progressive in the nation, but its sheriff is pro-Trump and pro-ICE. @davehutch2018, a career cop, is running to change all that.

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People don't vote in sheriff elections. Or if they do, they don't vote with knowledge of what's going on. Read this. Share this with locals.
(P.S. Local politicians need donations and small contributions can make a big difference but officially I don't fundraise for people I interview so I am just sharing this as an FYI)
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New Census figures released today show Detroit is still the poorest big city in the US:

“Detroit remained the nation's poorest big city last year, according to U.S. Census' American Community Survey estimates released Thursday” detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
New Census figures released today: The city of Dearborn’s poverty rate has increased to 32.4%, one of the highest rates in Michigan. Child poverty in Dearborn is 41.4%.
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New Census figures released today show Detroit’s white population remains at 10.5% of city residents, still the lowest % of whites among big cities in the U.S. detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
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174. I forgot to mention that Chambliss’s surprising Senate victory in Georgia's 2002 election (the first election after GA's purchase of unverifiable voting machines) helped the Republican party take over the US Senate; it needed 2 seats. redandblack.com/news/democrats…
175. Ralph Reed claimed that “angry white males went to the polls to support Sonny Purdue on the flag issue,” thus explaining Purdue’s surprise 2002 victory.
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176. But the data on the GA Secty of State's own website didn’t support the claim that angry white males went to the polls to support Sonny Purdue on the flag issue.
opednews.com/gray0204_georg…
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