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"No Reciprocity: Canadian Hit and Run"
In Everett, a vehicle with British Columbia plates struck a young boy and fled the scene, driving across the border back into Canada. Upon realizing the driver was Canadian, U.S. investigators dropped the case and did not ticket the man. An investigation by KIRO-TV finds that it is common for tickets issued to B.C. residents to remain unpaid without consequence because of the lack of a "reciprocity agreement" between Washington and British Columbia.
Tags: British Columbia; Canada; Regional Border Patrol; Everett Mall Way; Everett Police; Keith Leary; Washington Department of Licensing
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Suffering in Silence
Gibby's three-part series chronicles the strides the Columbia Police Department is making with its Domestic Violence Enforcement unit. However, despite growing documentation of abuse and more arrests, she shows that the problem of intimate partner abuse isn't going away.
Tags: domestic; violence; intimate; partner; law enforcement; police; cops; abuse; assault; gun; legislation; national institute of health; bureau of justice statistics; department of justice; relationship
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The Color of Justice
The Columbia Daily Tribune investigated arrest rates among juveniles in Columbia, MO, and found that black children were being arrested at much higher rates than white children, even though black children only made up about 18 percent of Columbia's juvenile population. They also found that the city of Columbia had not taken any kind of action to fix the racial imbalance in arrest rates.
Tags: FOIA; unfair arrest rates; Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; Columbia Police Department; racial profiling
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Anti-Terror Funds Buy Wide Array of Pet Projects
The Washington Post traced the path of the region's first wave of homeland security aid from its distribution through its final use, a trail that has been largely unexamined by federal regulators. The reporters found that much of the $324 million directed to the Washington region after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks remained unspent or was funding projects with questionable connections to homeland security. The analysis included a review of contracts, grant proposals, and purchasing databases. Results showed millions were spent on items such as leather jackets for police officers.
Tags: anti-terrorism; anti-terrorism funds; terrorism; homeland security; Prince George's County prosecutors; Congress; The Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; World Trade Center; Pentagon; Department of Homeland Security; Bethesda-Chevy Chase Fire Squad; Tom Ridge; District of Columbia Hospital Association; Psychiatric Institute of Washington; Kroll Government Services; bioterrorism; Prince William County; D.C. Department of Mental Health; D.C. Emergency Management Agency; anthrax; Montgomery County; Fairfax County; Federal Communications Commission
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The Color of Justice
As some U.S cities make progress in lowering the number of blacks in juvenile detention, Columbia's numbers rise. The Trib takes an in-depth look at how the number of arrests of black kids has been on a steady rise in this university town that prides itself on individual freedoms and civil rights. The story narrates multiple incidents where black children have been harshly taken into custody without being given a chance to be heard.
Tags: Fenna Isaacson; Kenny Harris-Jones; Almeta Crayton; Columbia Police Department; NAACP; W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice; Judge Patricia Clark; King County
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"From the Top, A City that Doesn't Work...
The packet of stories represents part of a year-long focus on misuse of tax funds by city officials and general malfeasance across the government of the District of Columbia. Powell's series shows how government corruption and incompetence cost Washington hundreds of millions of dollars a year. This series shows failure to spend approved federal grants, poorly written contracts and city work crews wasting time and doing private work on city time. Thompson and Woodlee focused on smaller numbers, but more audacious abuses by specific officials. The mayor paying police excessive overtime to move his luggage and a Corrections Department supervisor collecting overtime herself and authorizing overtime for city workers repairing her house.
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