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Emisión especial dedicada a los más importantes acontecimientos de Cuba iniciando 2025: Para escuchar en Sound Cloud: Para ver en Youtube:

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By BY JOHN ELIGON, FRANCES ROBLES, ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS AND HELENE COOPER from U.S. in the New York Times-https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/fbi-police-threats-inauguration.html?partner=IFTTT A joint intelligence bulletin warned that the deadly breach at the Capitol will be a “significant driver of violence” ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. F.B.I. Urges Police Chiefs Across U.S. to Be On High Alert for Threats New York Times

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A new roof of cheap corrugated zinc typically starts at about $5,000 and might blow off again in the next hurricane; a concrete roof that could survive future storms costs about $15,000. But FEMA payments, by federal law, are based only on what homeowners lost.

I mean FEMA is very upfront that they’re not designed or allowed to actually fix things for people because that would be ~*~communism~*~ but it’s terrible

also I love anytime people say “it’s a bell curve that’s just how it works” and then get bluntly corrected by a graph that is very clearly not a normal curve

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The Fear Factor in Policing

The Fear Factor in Policing

Given the situation, officer, is your fear reasonable or not?

After three decades in policing and two of them as a chief officer, I find myself in the ranks of most police officers – I never had to kill someone. And I am thankful for that. At the same time, I know it was a possibility every day I went to work; especially during my days on the tactical squad.

Yet looking back, I have in my memory…

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Review of 50 Brooklyn Murder Cases Ordered | The New York Times

By Frances Robles and N.R. Kleinfield

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office has ordered a review of some 50 murder cases assigned to an acclaimed homicide detective, an acknowledgment of mounting questions about the officer’s tactics and the legitimacy of the convictions.

The office’s Conviction Integrity Unit will reopen every murder case that resulted in a guilty verdict after being investigated by Detective Louis Scarcella, a flashy officer who handled some of Brooklyn’s most notorious crimes during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s.

The development comes after The New York Times examined a dozen cases involving Mr. Scarcella and found disturbing patterns, including the detective’s reliance on the same eyewitness, a crack-addicted prostitute, for multiple murder prosecutions and his delivery of confessions from suspects who later said they had told him nothing. At the same time, defense lawyers, inmates and prisoner advocacy organizations have contacted the district attorney’s office to share their own suspicions about Mr. Scarcella.

The review by the office of District Attorney Charles J. Hynes will give special scrutiny to those cases that appear weakest — because they rely on either a single eyewitness or confession, officials said. The staff will re-interview available witnesses, and study any new evidence. If they feel a conviction was unjust, prosecutors could seek for it to be dismissed.

“People will look for blame,” said John O’Mara, who leads the Conviction Integrity Unit. “Our goal isn’t to look for blame. Our goal is to correct injustice.”

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