| What’s the future for Dreamers? Posted: 21 Jun 2020 08:51 AM PDT  The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration's latest attempt at ending the DACA program. What does the decision mean for hundreds of thousands of Dreamers?
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| Mexican drug cartel leader issues tearful threats to government after arrest of his mother Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:29 AM PDT  One of the most wanted Mexican cartel leaders threatened the government and his arch-foes in highly unusual video messages, including one where he can be seen fighting back tears after his mother was detained over the weekend. Jose "El Marro" Yepez, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, has been a thorn in the side of the President Andres Lopez Obrador's government due to his gang's industrial-scale siphoning of petroleum from state-run oil company Pemex. In one of the videos widely shared on social media, Yepez can be seen lashing out against the government after his mother was allegedly arrested in a major security operation in the city of Celeya in Mexico's bloodiest state, Guanajuato. "I'm going to be a stone in your shoe. I'm going to blow up, you will see," Yepez, wearing jeans with a rifle slung over his shoulder, said in the video. Reuters was not able to independently verify the videos. Mexican security forces on Sunday said they arrested members of an organised crime group in a raid in Celeya, where they found a about one kilogramme of a something resembling methamphetamine and 2 million pesos ($88,000). "Among the detainees are Maria "N", Juana "N" and Rosalba "N", alleged financial operators of the criminal organization," Mexico's security agencies said in a joint statement, without naming the Santa Rosa cartel or its leader. El Universal newspaper said Yepez' mother, sister and girlfriend were all arrested. Yepez said he feared the authorities would frame his mother as one of the leaders of the cartel. "In my mother's and my people's name...I don't fear you," he said. Yepez also said he could form a coalition with the Sinaloa cartel or other crime groups in the north to fight Santa Rosa's arch-foe Jalisco New Generation cartel, which has been on a bloody expansion drive to take over rivals' territories across the country.
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| Trump tells Tulsa crowd he wanted to "slow down" COVID-19 testing, White House says he was joking Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:54 PM PDT  "When you do testing to that extent ... you're going to find more cases, so I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'"
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| UK police: Park stabbing that killed 3 was a terror attack Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:51 AM PDT  A stabbing rampage that killed three people as they sat in a British park on a summer evening is being considered a terrorist attack, police said Sunday as a 25-year-old man who was believed to be the lone attacker was in custody. Authorities said they were not looking for any other suspects and they did not raise Britain's official terrorism threat level from "substantial." Three people were killed and three others seriously wounded in the stabbing attack that came out of the blue Saturday in Forbury Gardens park in Reading, a town of 200,000 people 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of London.
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| Hackers just leaked sensitive files from over 200 police departments that are searchable by badge number Posted: 22 Jun 2020 08:46 AM PDT  Police departments have been sharing information about COVID-19, George Floyd protesters, and even tweets critical of the police.
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| Australia's High Court says former judge sexually harassed six female staff Posted: 22 Jun 2020 02:41 AM PDT |
| Man arrested after 73-year-old woman punched in face on subway platform Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:39 AM PDT  New York police have arrested a homeless man suspected to be the Bronx subway station attacker who pushed a 73-year-old woman last week.Authorities announced on Saturday night that 23-year-old Ahmed Kromah had been apprehended and charged with assault after an appeal, reported CBS News.
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| ICC judges erred by acquitting Ivory Coast's Gbagbo: prosecutors Posted: 21 Jun 2020 05:52 PM PDT  International Criminal Court judges made "fundamental and serious" errors when they cleared former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo of crimes against humanity last year, prosecutors said as they launched an appeal on Monday. Gbagbo and his right-hand man Charles Ble Goude were acquitted in January 2019 of charges over post-electoral violence in the restive West African nation in 2010-11 in which around 3,000 people died. Prosecutors want the acquittal overturned and a retrial at the court in The Hague, which was set up in 2002 to deal with the world's worst crimes.
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| Yes, Even Saddam Hussein Could Have Attacked and Sunk an American Battleship Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:30 PM PDT  Nothing is impossible.
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| Fact check: Hillary Clinton was not in court June 2 testifying about child sex trafficking Posted: 21 Jun 2020 11:19 AM PDT |
| North Korea reinstalls propaganda speakers along border with South Posted: 22 Jun 2020 05:41 AM PDT  North Korea is reinstalling propaganda loudspeakers along the border with the South amid growing hostilities between Pyongyang and Seoul, military officials confirmed on Monday. According to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the loudspeakers, which were dismantled on both sides during a diplomatic thaw in 2018, have been set up again in "multiple places" inside the demilitarised zone that separates the two nations. "We are closely monitoring the North's moves to wage psychological warfare," an official source told the Yonhap news agency. Since the end of the Korean War in the 1950s until a 2018 agreement, both sides engaged intermittently in blasting propaganda at each other – the North choosing blistering condemnations of Seoul and the South opting for news about democracy, capitalism or popular K-pop songs to encourage defections. The return to the broadcasts marks another escalation in tensions, stemming apparently from Pyongyang's anger over defector groups sending messages and food parcels across the border using balloons. The North retaliated last week by blowing up an inter-Korean liaison office set up in 2018 to foster better relations, and by threatening to send troops back into border areas.
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| Bolton Says Jared Kushner Was the Most Important Person in the White House Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:18 PM PDT  Former National Security Adviser John Bolton said in an interview with ABC News that aired Sunday night that the most important person in the White House was President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner."It varied from time to time," Bolton said. "The sustained answer to that question… is Jared Kushner."Bolton went on to say that Trump was generally uninformed and did not do his homework."There was an unwillingness… to do systematic learning so he could make the most informed decisions," Bolton said, adding that the president's day didn't "start until almost lunchtime.""I don't think he is fit for office," Bolton said.What the Hell Is John Bolton?Bolton's interview with ABC comes just two days before the release of his book, titled The Room Where It Happened. The Department of Justice last week attempted to put an injunction on the book and block its release. But a judge in Washington struck down that effort Saturday.Most of Bolton's comments about the president seemed to focus on the president's inability to study and understand foreign policy."Trump was not following any international grand strategy," Bolton said.Trump said he ousted Bolton from his position at the NSC in September in the midst of the Ukraine scandal and in the lead-up to the House impeachment inquiry. (Bolton now claims that he resigned.)Over the past week the White House has scrambled to contain the fallout from Bolton's book and has tried to paint the former national security adviser as a disgruntled former official attempting to profit off of lies.In his interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz, Bolton laid out a series of foreign policy events where he says Trump "did not understand" U.S. policy and instead thought that forging personal relationships with leaders would bring friendlier relations between two nations."I think many of these foreign leaders mastered at ringing his bells," Bolton said. Bolton said Trump tried to become close with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in an attempt to smooth relations between the two countries and come to an agreement on nuclear weapons."I think Kim Jong Un gets a huge kick out of this," Bolton said. "Nobody should misunderstand that a personal relationship is somehow equivalent to better relations between two nations." Bolton said that during the Singapore summit in 2018 Trump gave concessions to Kim in private talks.Perhaps no other foreign policy relationship was more concerning to Bolton than the one between Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin. Bolton said it was clear Putin had a hold over Trump"I think Putin thinks he can play him like a fiddle. I don't think he is worried about Donald Trump," Bolton said. "I can just see the smirk when he knows he's got him following his line."The former national security adviser said Trump's callous indifference to establishing streamlined foreign policy eventually led to the breakdown of relations between the U.S. and Ukraine."He directly linked the provision of [Ukraine's] assistance with that provision," Bolton said of Trump holding up the country's military aid in exchange for President Volodymyr Zelensky pushing officials in Kyiv to open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden.Bolton was called to testify in the House impeachment probe but declined Democrats' outreach, saying "it wouldn't have made a difference" if he had answered their questions. "Minds were already made up on Capitol Hill," he said.Bolton said Democrats carried out "impeachment malpractice" and that the House Democrats should have taken more time to carry out the investigation. Instead, he said, they chose to "keep it narrow and move it fast."If there was one incident that pushed him over the edge, Bolton said, it was Trump's decision to invite the Taliban to Camp David on the week of 9/11. That's when he decided to resign, Bolton said. But the president fired him first."I should have striked preemptively," Bolton said. "He and I had a one-on-one conversation in the afternoon and I said, 'If you want me to resign I'll do it.' And we decided to talk about it later in the afternoon."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Indian prime minister says China lost at least 40 soldiers during border clash Posted: 22 Jun 2020 12:20 PM PDT  China and India clashed at their disputed border this week, resulting in the lost of at least 40 Chinese soldiers.
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| 7 years ago, this city disbanded its police force. It now serves as a model for others. Posted: 22 Jun 2020 10:57 AM PDT  Crime dropped in Camden, but there's more to the story, say advocates and longtime residents.
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| China warns of reprisal as Japanese city changes disputed area name Posted: 22 Jun 2020 12:56 AM PDT  China said on Monday it reserves the right to respond to a Japanese city's decision to rename the administrative area that includes remote islands claimed by both China and Japan and have long been a source of friction between the neighbours. The row over the uninhabited East China Sea islets may add to recent tension caused by Japan's criticisms of Beijing's plan to impose a new national security law in Hong Kong. China has said Japan should not interfere in Beijing's internal affairs.
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| A Japanese-Inspired Home in the Middle of Texas Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:27 AM PDT |
| Police kill Canadian man during mental health check Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:31 PM PDT  A man with schizophrenia was killed by police who were called to help him.
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| Ocasio-Cortez has spent more campaign money this cycle than any other Democrat up for re-election Posted: 22 Jun 2020 11:51 AM PDT  In just two years, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has built a political operation rivalling those of some of the most prolific fundraising showstoppers in Washington.The New York Democrat has spent the most money of any House Democrat seeking re-election this fall, shelling out at least $6.3m so far this cycle, despite representing one of the most liberal districts in the country.
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| Iran rial plunges to virus-induced lows Posted: 22 Jun 2020 07:45 AM PDT  The Iranian rial plunged to new depths against the US dollar on Monday in what economists said was a slump partly induced by the Middle East's deadliest coronavirus outbreak. At Tehran's foreign exchange hub on Ferdowsi Street, the currency was being traded at around 192,800 to the dollar at midday, according to AFP journalists. The rial has hit rock bottom in the past month, collapsing even below the 190,000 rate it fell to in the wake of the US decision in 2018 to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions.
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| Why Is North Korea’s Kim Yo-jong Attacking South Korea (and Not Kim Jong-un)? Posted: 22 Jun 2020 08:53 AM PDT  It is all a part of the plan.
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| Kayleigh McEnany Grilled on Trump’s ‘Kung Flu’ Rally Slur Posted: 22 Jun 2020 11:39 AM PDT  Three months ago, at the very beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang revealed that a White House official had called COVID-19 the "Kung Flu" to her face. "Makes me wonder what they're calling it behind my back," she tweeted at the time. So after President Donald Trump himself used that openly racist term during his campaign rally speech in Tulsa over the weekend, Jiang asked White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany about it on Monday.Noting that Trump has deemed himself "the least racist person there is anywhere in the world," Jiang asked, "Why does he use racist phrases like the Kung Flu?"Even 'Fox & Friends' Isn't Buying Kayleigh McEnany's Spin on Tulsa Rally Crowd"The president doesn't," McEnany lied. "What the president does do is point to the fact that the origin of the virus is China." As the press secretary continued to defend Trump's words, Jiang pushed back, expressing the concerns of Asian-Americans around the country who worry that those words will further inflame racist attacks against them. "To be clear, are you saying the White House does not believe it's racist?" Jiang asked."To be clear, I think the media is trying to play games with the terminology of this virus when the focus should be on the fact that China let this out of their country," McEnany shot back. Later in the briefing, PBS NewsHour's Yamiche Alcindor brought up the fact that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway called the term "Kung Flu" "highly offensive" back in March. "Does the president agree with Kellyanne Conway or is he now saying that term is not 'highly offensive' and wrong?'" When McEnany responded by saying that "the president does not believe it's offensive to note that this virus came from China," Alcindor pressed her to actually answer the question about Conway and "Kung Flu." Instead, McEnany quickly pivoted to a softball question about John Bolton from her invited guest, OAN reporter Chanel Rion. Kellyanne Conway Spars With Reporters Over 'Kung-Flu' Coronavirus SlurRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| National labor groups mostly close ranks to defend police unions Posted: 21 Jun 2020 05:30 PM PDT  While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
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| Pompeo urges China to release detained Canadians after 'groundless' charges Posted: 22 Jun 2020 09:03 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday called for the immediate release of two Canadians charged by China for alleged espionage, saying the United States was "extremely concerned" and that the two men's detention was unjustified. "These charges are politically motivated and completely groundless," Pompeo said in a statement. Chinese prosecutors announced the charges on Friday against former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor, who were arrested in late 2018.
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| Cuomo Blames Federal Government for New York Nursing Home Deaths Posted: 22 Jun 2020 10:50 AM PDT  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pushed back against accusations that his nursing home coronavirus policies resulted in dozens of unnecessary deaths, instead blaming the federal government for not relaying information about the pandemic soon enough."Let's look at the facts, right? Rather than the political rhetoric. Yes, we had more people die in nursing homes than anywhere else because we had more people die," Cuomo said Monday on MSNBC. "Because the federal government missed the boat and never told us that this virus was coming from Europe and not from China.""The federal government and the CDC and all of them failed to handle this pandemic and warn this nation," the Democratic governor continued. "So New York had more cases and more deaths and more deaths in nursing homes because that's who the virus affects. It affects senior citizens. We know that. You look at any state, and they had a tremendous number of deaths in nursing homes."Cuomo has faced criticism for his policies aimed at fighting the virus in nursing homes, in particular his state regulation requiring nursing homes to accept recovering coronavirus patients and the prohibition against nursing homes testing returning patients for coronavirus. The state was also criticized for the lack of personal protective equipment for caretakers working in nursing homes.In early May, New York announced 1,700 previously undisclosed suspected coronavirus deaths that occurred at nursing homes and adult care facilities. The report came after critics expressed skepticism about the official death tallies from coronavirus at nursing homes compared to rising death rates among elderly residents.During January, February, and March — before the Trump administration temporarily banned travel from Europe over coronavirus fears — three million people brought the virus to New York from Europe unbeknownst to the federal government, Cuomo said, an apparent reference to his earlier statement that three million travelers from Europe passed through New York's airports between December and March.The Europe travel ban was implemented on March 13. Research later indicated that the coronavirus was seeded in New York and other East Coast states by travelers from Europe rather than from China, where the outbreak originated."It's all a political charade, and it's an ugly one, frankly, to talk about a number of deaths and suggest there was politics added," Cuomo said of criticism about his nursing home policies, blaming Republicans for "playing politics."He touted New York's coronavirus testing rates as well the state's declining rate of hospitalizations and deaths. New York performed 57,000 tests on Sunday with less than one percent coming back positive.Meanwhile, the state saw 10 deaths from the infection on Sunday, down from a high of 800 deaths in one day at the peak of the outbreak. Currently, the state has 100 hospitalizations for coronavirus, the lowest level since the pandemic's height.Cuomo also said he may release guidelines to handle a potential influx of visitors to New York from states with higher infection rates.
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| An Indian businessman just became the first Asian member of the world's 10 richest people. Meet the Ambanis, who live in a $1 billion skyscraper and mingle with royals and Bollywood stars. Posted: 22 Jun 2020 09:29 AM PDT  Mukesh Ambani is worth $44.6 billion. His family made headlines in 2018 for throwing one of the most lavish wedding celebrations in recent memory.
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| 2nd wave of virus cases? Experts say we're still in the 1st Posted: 21 Jun 2020 07:55 AM PDT  In The Wall Street Journal last week, Vice President Mike Pence wrote in a piece headlined "There Isn't a Coronavirus 'Second Wave'" that the nation is winning the fight against the virus. About 120,000 Americans have died from the new virus and daily counts of new cases in the U.S. are the highest they've been in more than a month, driven by alarming recent increases in the South and West. "When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a second wave?" said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.
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| Study: Antibody levels in recovered COVID-19 patients decline quickly Posted: 22 Jun 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Levels of an antibody found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply 2 to 3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study.
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| 'Do you feel any remorse?': Officer charged in killing of George Floyd confronted while buying groceries in Minnesota Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:12 PM PDT  One of the four officers charged in the killing of George Floyd was confronted by a shopper while buying groceries on Saturday in Minnesota.J. Alexander Keung, 26, was released from Hennepin County Jail on Friday night on a $750,000 bond. He was approached by a woman while shopping at a Cub Foods grocery store the next day.
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| News Analysis: Joe Biden is no Hillary Clinton, and that's a problem for President Trump Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Trump's best hope for reelection is dragging Biden down. That's harder when many voters like the guy.
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| Why America's Aircraft Carriers Are Great But... Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT  Time for a change?
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| A New York City police officer who was suspended after using an 'apparent chokehold' was once charged with assault following the arrest of a 16-year-old Posted: 22 Jun 2020 11:39 AM PDT  New York Police Officer David Afanador was suspended without pay on Sunday after he was seen on video using a chokehold on 35-year-old Ricky Bellevue.
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| China reports 18 new coronavirus cases, nine in Beijing Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:59 PM PDT  China reported 18 new coronavirus cases for June 21, 9 of which were in the capital Beijing, the National Health Commission said on Monday. This compared with 26 confirmed cases a day earlier, 22 of which were in Beijing. Local authorities are restricting movement of people in the capital and stepping up other measures to prevent the virus from spreading following a series of local infections.
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| Sudan warns against escalation in Nile dam dispute Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:08 PM PDT  Sudan on Sunday warned against escalation and urged further negotiations with Egypt and Ethiopia over Addis Ababa's controversial dam on the Nile. Tensions are running high between the three countries after recent talks failed to produce a deal on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
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| Suspending work permits for foreign graduates would be a terrible mistake for US economy Posted: 22 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT  A college education is a major U.S. export that benefits both the universities and economy.
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| S Korea urges North not to send leaflets amid high tensions Posted: 21 Jun 2020 08:41 PM PDT  South Korea on Monday urged North Korea to scrap a plan to launch propaganda leaflets across the border, after the North said it's ready to float 12 million leaflets in what would be the largest such psychological campaign against its southern rival. Animosities on the Korean Peninsula rose sharply last week, after North Korea destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office on its territory in anger over South Korean civilian leafleting against it. Yoh Sangkey, a spokesman at Seoul's Unification Ministry, told reporters that North Korea must suspend its plan to send anti-Seoul leaflets that "are not helpful to South-North (Korea) relations at all."
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| Mariana Trench: Don Walsh's son repeats historic ocean dive Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:13 AM PDT  Sixty years after his father did it first, Kelly Walsh dives to the deepest point in Earth's oceans.
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| Biden campaign addresses his widening lead in the polls, VP search, Trump's push for more debates Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:38 AM PDT  Senior adviser for the Biden campaign Symone Sanders joins 'Fox News Sunday.'
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| After Trump rally falls flat, TikTok teens take a victory lap for fake reservation campaign Posted: 22 Jun 2020 03:17 AM PDT  TikTok teens, young adults and K-pop fans celebrated after Trump's Tulsa rally had lower than expected turnout.
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| Non-white jail officers file discrimination charges over ‘segregation’ from Derek Chauvin Posted: 22 Jun 2020 07:47 AM PDT  Eight non-white corrections officers have said they were barred from guarding former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin - the man charged with the murder of George Floyd - because of their race, according to a report.The officers at Ramsey County jail have filed discrimination charges with the state's Department of Human Rights alleging they were barred from guarding or having any other contact with Chauvin based solely on the colour of their skin, according to a report by The Star Tribune.
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| The U.S. Navy Is Ready for Trouble in the South China Sea or Near Taiwan Posted: 22 Jun 2020 11:52 AM PDT  Not only do these types of operations extend the Navy's ability to attack inland targets to a larger extent, extend target-searching dwell time and enable coordinated multi-platform strikes, but they also greatly improve destroyer-and-cruiser launched missile attacks.
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| Dozens of girls at India abuse shelter contract coronavirus Posted: 22 Jun 2020 07:38 AM PDT  Dozens of girls from a state-run shelter for runaways and victims of sexual abuse -- including seven who are pregnant -- have tested positive for coronavirus, Indian officials said Monday, raising fears about its spread in institutional homes. A probe was launched after almost 60 out of 171 vulnerable girls contracted the virus at the under-18s shelter in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state. India has been grappling with a huge surge in coronavirus infections in recent weeks as the country gradually eases a strict months-long lockdown.
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| What American Cops Can Learn From the End of South Africa’s Apartheid Policing Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:06 AM PDT  During South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy, I was directly involved in the transformation of the police force to a police service. Today, as the United States is confronted with the need for changes in police culture and behavior, perhaps some of the lessons learned in those tumultuous times may prove useful. After Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years in prison in 1990, the lid was lifted off the centuries-old subjugation of Blacks in South Africa. It is not surprising that the injury and pain spilled over into violence, which threatened to destroy the dream of the New South Africa. The old system of apartheid had broken down, a new system had not yet been born, and the country was trying to navigate the vacuum in between.I served on the executive committee of Cape Town's Regional Peace Committee. Our job was to mediate, intervene in crises, facilitate talks between government officials and Black communities, and facilitate new policies. I often stood between lines of heavily armed police and large crowds of angry demonstrators, with tear gas and bullets flying. Once, I was shot in the leg with a rubber bullet.My colleagues and I knew that South Africa needed police—the right kind of police. We realized that the language and the reality of policing had to shift. We needed a police service—not a police force.In 1992, an extraordinary document, the National Peace Accord, was signed by the African National Congress (ANC), the apartheid government, other political parties, security forces, business, labor, and religious leaders, and the police themselves. It included a Code of Conduct for the police, which every officer in the country had to choose to sign—or resign. It also required all police officers to wear a nameplate, which, for the first time, held individual officers to account. The key was political will. The pressure for change pushed from the bottom up and pressed down from the top. Police officers from New York City and Scotland Yard in the U,K. exchanged information and visits with the police leadership and the African National Congress. The decision was made to adopt the doctrine of Community Policing. It would be difficult. Apartheid-style policing was based on force and aggression, whereas community policing is based on service and cooperation. To reinforce their commitment, the police established a Community Relations Division, which enshrined Liaison Forums, later known as Community Policing Forums. This meant that all station commanders would hold regular structured meetings with the community they policed.A pilot program in Cape Town tried out a forum in a Black area. In the beginning, the police attempted to control the process, and the community resisted. With persistence on both sides, the police and community found common ground and formed a joint secretariat. Police and community representatives alternately hosted and chaired meetings and trainings that included education on the National Peace Accord, legal, economic and judicial reforms, violence against women and the prevention of family violence. A network of health and social workers, psychologists, and chaplains was on call to respond appropriately.The police needed to be committed to the safety and security of the entire population, and to make these new ways stick. In 1993, national police headquarters published a strategic plan "to ensure the safety of all people in the country through community involvement and the rendering of professional service." They allocated massive resources, re-ordered police structures, and designated the Community Relations Division the new elite, complete with new criteria for promotion that focused on effectiveness within communities. Cape Town police HQ developed a manual with a self-reflective preamble: "The SA Police has been responsible for the enforcing discriminatory legislation in the past … a subculture of brutality and bias actually developed."By the end of the four-year transition period, the police were demilitarized and reconstituted as a police service, under civilian control. To better fit the new reality, a new ministry was established to supervise the police—the Ministry of Safety and Security. This was much more than a semantic shift. It described a whole new way of thinking about policing. Later, as is so often the case, the gains of one administration are squandered by another. In 2009, during the presidency of Jacob Zuma, the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Police. In 2010, the police responded to caustic criticism of a sharp rise in crime by resuming the previous militarized structure, it seems as a show of strength that is still apparent in policing today. The Community Policing Forums are still in place, though now more dependent on the willingness of individual station commanders. The name police service also still stands, and the lessons of the past, once learned, can be shelved, but never erased. The achievements of 1994 illustrate what political will can do. If this kind of profound change in policing could happen within a system as brutal as apartheid South Africa, then it can certainly happen within a democratic America. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Florida's daily coronavirus cases have more than quadrupled since reopening Posted: 22 Jun 2020 10:37 AM PDT  Two hospitals in Palm Beach County, Florida's third-most populous county, have no open ICU beds. Across the state, 75% of beds are occupied.
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| Army confirms body found near Fort Hood is missing soldier Gregory Morales Posted: 22 Jun 2020 10:30 AM PDT |
| Trump opens door to another round of stimulus checks, direct deposits Posted: 22 Jun 2020 01:30 PM PDT  The president said in an interview the amount would be "generous" but didn't put a dollar figure on it.
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| Chicago Sees 102 Shootings in Most Violent Weekend of 2020 Posted: 22 Jun 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Chicago recorded 102 shooting victims over the weekend, the highest number for a single weekend in 2020.The rash of shootings is part of a spate of violence that began after George Floyd demonstrations in late May descended into widespread looting and rioting that began after George Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer.Over the past weekend, 14 people were killed in the latest round of shootings. Five of those victims were teenagers, including a three-year-old boy shot while being driven by his father. A police source told the Chicago Sun-Times that the father was likely the intended target.Another victim was a 13-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet.Police Superintendent David Brown, who started his position in April, said one of the main problems the department faced was a failure by city authorities to monitor offenders placed under house arrest. Brown also called for violent offenders to remain in jail for longer periods."Cops are working hard, [and there's] great leadership here," Superintendent David Brown said at a press conference on Sunday. "Our strategy ends up with arrests, and if you arrest someone that's a violent offender, and they get right back out of jail and put on home monitoring, and no one monitors, we're just chasing our tail."The rise in shootings came three weeks after the most violent day in Chicago in 60 years, with 18 people killed over a 24-hour period on Sunday, May 31."We've never seen anything like it at all," Max Kapustin, senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, told the Sun-Times. "I don't even know how to put it into context. It's beyond anything that we've ever seen before."
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