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Police Stops: Know Your Rights, Vegas Weddings, and 'Let's Be Less Stupid'
The Sandra Bland case has the whole country wondering: what, exactly, are my rights when I’m pulled over? What were her rights in her initial police encounter? And is your mental acuity fading? Patricia Marx has written a book called Let's Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties.
By Madeleine Brand • • 50m ListenLA County’s jails are so crowded with mentally ill inmates, it’s become a crisis. In a new report, L.A. County’s District Attorney recommends sending non-violent criminals with mental health and addiction issues to treatment instead of lockup.
And the Sandra Bland case has the whole country wondering what, exactly, are my rights when I’m pulled over? What were her rights in her initial police encounter?
Then, the number of people getting married in Las Vegas has decreased by more than a third in just a decade. That’s a loss of about a billion dollars a year.
And Patricia Marx has written a book about her brain function called Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties.
Finally, a group calling themselves "The Impact Team" is demanding that infidelity website Ashley Madison go offline.
Banner Image: The Little White Wedding Chapel drive-through tunnel of vows located in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
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5 storiesCan Mental Health Treatment Help Solve the Overcrowding Crisis at L.A. County Jails?
L.A. County’s jails are so crowded with mentally ill inmates, it’s become a crisis. In a new report out today, L.A. County’s District Attorney recommends sending non-violent criminals with mental health and addiction issues to treatment instead of lockup.
Read the story9 minSo You Got Pulled Over: Know Your Rights
The Texas case of Sandra Bland has many asking: what, exactly, are my rights when I’m pulled over? Bland was stopped for a minor traffic violation, and was arrested when the situation with the police officer escalated. She later died in her jail cell of an apparent suicide. What were her rights during that initial police encounter?
Read the story7 minReviving the Las Vegas Wedding Industry
Las Vegas is the wedding capital of the world. More than 128,000 couples got hitched in Vegas in 2004, but that number has dropped by more than a third in just a decade. As fewer people head to the desert to be joined in holy matrimony by an Elvis Presley impersonator, an industry is losing about $1 billion a year. Conor Shine
Read the story6 min'Let’s Be Less Stupid'
Is your mental acuity not quite as acute as it used to be—and do you wonder if there’s anything you can do about it? Well, you’ve come to the right place. Patricia Marx has been obsessed with her brain function and has written a book about it called 'Let’s Be Less Stupid: An Attempt to Maintain My Mental Faculties.'
Read the story16 minWeb Roundup: Ashley Madison and More
A group calling themselves The Impact Team has taken 37 million users’ data hostage from the infidelity dating website Ashley Madison. The hackers are demanding that Ashley Madison go offline. That’s where we start today with web doyenne Xeni Jardin.
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