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If you want to get up to speed on how police officers can outrun misconduct, take a look at this @usatoday investigation from last year.

It found the "journey from disgraced police officer to police chief is a surprisingly common one."

usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
Because of police secrecy, "thousands of people have faced criminal charges or gone to prison based in part on testimony from officers deemed to have credibility problems," many of which remained hidden.

usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
For more than a year, @usatoday collected records of more than 200,000 incidents of alleged misconduct, many of which had not previously been disclosed. Then it published them.

You can, and should, see them here:

usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
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The defense secretary says he thought he was accompanying the president to Lafayette Square to observe a vandalized bathroom.
Pretty remarkable how rapidly and aggressively some parts of Washington are running away from what happened yesterday in Lafayette Square.
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Lawyers for ex-Rep. Chris Collins say he shouldn't have to report to federal prison to start serving his sentence until August because of the risk from COVID-19. They say DOJ has no objection.
Collins' lawyers say COVID-19 cases in federal prisons are almost certainly under-reported, citing this @Reuters special report. -> reuters.com/article/us-hea…
The filing would be here, but grumble grumble @big_cases is being lazy or is on a furlough or something ->
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Justice Department IG says that two recommendations - prompted by the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation - about not talking publicly about non-prosecution and not taking steps that could influence an election remain unresolved.
Justice Department IG also says the government hasn't adopted a policy against publicly "discussing the conduct of uncharged individuals." This was prompted by the @comey press conference in which he said Hillary Clinton wouldn't be charged but publicly criticized her conduct.
The IG says Justice also hasn't clarified its policies about whether officials can use "political or ideological affiliations" when choosing career lawyers for temporary details. This one has pending since 2008.
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